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The Health Not Prisons Collective Vows to Combat Anti-Black Racism, End Criminalization of Pandemics and Abolish Systems of Imprisonment
The Health Not Prisons Collective is a new, three year national initiative of longtime collaborators led by, and accountable to, communities most affected by HIV criminalization in the United States: Counter Narrative Project, Positive Women’s Network - USA (PWN),...
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A Statement from Keith and Terri Edmonds, parents of Dominique “Rem’mie” Fells
June 17, 2020 The following statement can be attributed to Keith and Terri Edmonds, parents of Dominique “Rem'mie” Fells: “The outpouring of care and support has been unimaginable, but now we must ask that you please give us time to properly lay our daughter to rest....
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TLC Celebrates SCOTUS Decision While Urging LGBTQ Movement to Remember: We are not free until Black trans women are free
Today Transgender Law Center paused to celebrate the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) consolidated opinions in R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia. The decision denies employers the right to...
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TLC Denounces New Rule Denying Protection from Discrimination to Transgender People Seeking Medical Care
Today the Transgender Law Center (TLC) denounced a new rule handed down by the Trump administration that green lights discrimination by health care providers and insurers against transgender and gender nonconforming people (TGNC), especially those who live in states...
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Black Trans Migrants Matter: #FreeSzaSza
Sza Sza's story Sza Sza Codner is a Jamaican trans woman and asylum seeker who has been detained for several years in immigration prison. Currently, Sza Sza is detained at Aurora Contract Detention Facility where others have tested positive for COVID-19....
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The Disability Project Interviews: Gabriel Foster and Kiyomi Fujikawa Embody #TransDisabledBrilliance
For trans disabled people, invisibility and isolation is the norm. Disability justice in every movement, including that of trans liberation, has been neglected in organizing demands and values. Despite this, trans disabled activists like Gabriel Foster and Kiyomi...
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Indiana Appellate Court Rules U.S. Citizenship is not Required for Legal Name Change
Indiana Legal Services, Inc (ILSI), MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund), the Law Office of Barbara J. Baird, and the Transgender Law Center (TLC) won an important victory yesterday on behalf of two transgender immigrant clients who had been...
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TLC, the Law Office of R. Andrew Free, and the Law Office of Daniel Yohalem File Lawsuit Against CoreCivic and Multiple Private Entities Alleging Gross Negligence Lead to Roxsana’s Death
Third lawsuit alleging wrongdoing by CoreCivic in recent weeksToday Transgender Law Center (TLC), the Law Office of R. Andrew Free, and the Law Office of Daniel Yohalem announced that they have filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of...
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Goodbyes and Gratitude from Ace Xavier
When I started at Transgender Law Center almost 4 years ago, I said that one of my goals was to “support work that seeks to transform this moment into a movement”.We had a staff of about 15 and a budget of around $2 million dollars with our Oakland...
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TLC, Ballard Spahr, & Rapid Defense Network Announce Class Action Lawsuit to Free All Transgender People in ICE Custody
The crisis of COVID-19 exacerbates already dangerous and inhumane conditions in ICE detention facilities Today the Transgender Law Center (TLC), Ballard Spahr LLP, and the Rapid Defense Network filed a complaint demanding the release of all transgender...
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