Impact Litigation

TLC’s impact litigation work focuses primarily on ending the criminalization of trans lives and is typically developed in conjunction with our programs team and grassroots organizations.

We focus on three aspects of criminalization: laws and policies that disproportionately impact and criminalize trans people like walking while trans laws; the impact of criminalization inside prisons, detention centers, and hospitals; and collateral consequences of convictions, such as criminal convictions that impact a person’s ability to get immigration status.

Case Spotlights

Raven v. Polis

Prisons and Policing

On November 22nd, 2019, Transgender Law Center (TLC) and King & Greisen, LL …

Mott v. Kansas Dept of Health and Environment

ID Docs

Transgender Law Center, along with co-counsel Irigonegaray and Associates a …

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Roxsana Hernandez

Immigration Prisons and Policing

Transgender Law Center (TLC) and the Law Office of Andrew R. Free have file …

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Historic Wins

For more than two decades, Transgender Law Center has led the country in challenging the legal system to respect the dignity and humanity of transgender and gender nonconforming people. Our impact litigation in areas like employment, education, and immigration have redefined transgender people’s experience of rights and justice in the U.S.