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65 Trans led organizations denounce voter disenfranchisement efforts and join the call for every vote to be counted in the 2020 election
Today, Transgender Law Center (TLC), Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) and 63 other trans-led organizations nationally are calling for every vote to be counted in the 2020 election before formally announcing the 46th President of the United...
TLC Demands Senate Vote Against Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s Confirmation to SCOTUS
On Thursday, the Republicans in the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to move Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court forward to a full Senate vote, likely on Monday, October 26th. Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee protested the vote. In...
TLC mourns the passing of groundbreaking movement leader, elder and journalist, Monica Roberts
Transgender Law Center today mourns the death of Monica Roberts, a long-time movement leader, elder, activist, and journalist who has done groundbreaking work for our communities for decades. News of Monica Roberts' passing was broken yesterday in statements posted by...
TLC Opposes HUD’s Dangerous Proposed Changes to the Equal Access Rule
Today, TLC filed our public comment opposing the Trump administration’s attempt to eliminate trans protections in federally funded homeless shelters. This latest attack on our communities is nothing more than a transparent attempt to cause harm by assuring more and more trans people are sleeping on the streets, and cruelly denied access to the safety and shelter that all people deserve.
On the Strength of the Trans Liberation Movement
When Transgender Law Center and a national coalition comprised primarily of Black, indigenous, and migrant trans, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming leaders launched the Trans Agenda for Liberation in March, we knew it had to speak to the unprecedented...
U.S. Citizenship is not Required for Legal Name Change in Indiana
A Court of Appeals of Indiana has taken the final step in the process and certified a decision that a state name-change law does not require a petitioner to be a U.S. citizen to change their name. The ruling, issued last week, is now the guiding law in the state of...
TLC and Civil Rights Orgs, Harvard CHLPI, and Firm Hogan Lovells File Lawsuit Against Trump Administration’s Rule Removing ACA’s Non-Discrimination Protections
Today Transgender Law Center (TLC), the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC), Transgender Law Center (TLC), the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF), the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation (CHLPI) of Harvard Law School, and law firm Hogan...
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),...
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....
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...
