2018-11-15T19:50:49-08:00 2017-12-31 472626541 Cook & Company A Prof Actncy Corp 870 Market Street Suite 880 San Francisco CA 94102 990 2017-01-01 050544006 Transgender Law Center TRAN 5105879696 PO BOX 70976 Oakland CA 94612 Kris Hayashi Executive Director 2018-11-15 true Douglas E Cook CPAMPA P01521705 4156211112 2017 2019-02-21 02:37:17Z Kris Hayashi PO BOX 70976 Oakland CA 94612 5352490 false false X www.transgenderlawcenter.org X 2005 CA Transgender Law Center TLC changes law, policy and attitudes so that all people can live safely, authentically, and free from discrimination regardless of their gender identity or expression. 13 13 36 20 0 2870196 4842549 196045 222426 23364 143204 -25685 88424 3063920 5296603 0 0 1681958 2097172 94385 28699 457618 1565419 1738949 3341762 3864820 -277842 1431783 2038983 3529410 289592 348236 1749391 3181174 Transgender Law Center TLC changes law, policy and attitudes so that all people can live safely, authentically, and free from discrimination regardless of their gender identity or expression. false false 3174413 22398 222426 Our Legal Program worked to secure and protect comprehensive legal protections for transgender and gender non-conforming people through targeted policy advocacy, litigation and legal advocacy, and training/technical assistance. Legal accomplishments and progress included the following: 1. We secured a groundbreaking victory at the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals representing Ash Whitaker, a transgender high school student in Wisconsin who is being denied access to the restroom consistent with his gender identity. The school district has decided not to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, so this victory stands. 2. In September 2016, with the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), we filed a federal lawsuit against Rady's Children'??s Hospital in San Diego, California, alleging discrimination in violation of the ACA and California law as well as deceptive and unfair business practices. A 15-year-old transgender boy who was admitted to Rady'??s due to suicidal ideation was mistreated and repeatedly misgendered by the hospital despite his and his mother's advocacy, and was released because his condition had worsened. Shortly after, he died by suicide. In September 2017, a Federal Court ruled that the Affordable Care Act's sex discrimination protections apply to transgender youth. The Court also ruled that the boy'??s mother can seek emotional damages on behalf of her son. In October 2017, TLC and NCLR filed an amended complaint based on the September ruling. 3. In May 2017, a groundbreaking decision was issued that gender dysphoria cannot be excluded from the ADA. TLC helped write and submit a significant amicus brief in this case. This ruling, the first of its kind in the country, lays a foundation for transgender people to pursue broad civil rights protections across a range of areas, regardless of specific state nondiscrimination protections. In October 2017, TLC won an appeal of the U.S. government'??s order of removal for M, a transgender woman who emigrated from Mexico almost 20 years ago. In the appeal, TLC argued that the government violated Marianna's due process, guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, by failing to inform her of her right to apply for asylum after she told an immigration judge she feared for her life should she be forced to return to Mexico. The BIA'??s ruling establishes that immigration judges have an absolute non-waivable legal obligation to a person appearing without a lawyer who expresses fear of returning to their home country to tell them that they can apply for asylum or withholding of removal. Additionally, our Trans Immigrant Defense Effort (TIDE) recruited and trained pro bono lawyers to provide legal representation to TGNC immigrants in immigration petitions and court proceedings and works with grassroots LGBT immigrant groups to develop a community-led deportation defense model. In August, TLC joined a caravan of trans women and gay men in Mexico, in preparation for crossing the border to seek asylum, and collaborated in efforts resulting in the release on parole of the 9 trans women who were detained. TIDE also participated in advocacy strategy development around the expansion of sanctuary and helped craft trans inclusive policy proposals for communities to use. In September 2017, we developed a resource with tips and tools for preparing for raids and interacting with ICE for TGNC immigrants and a resource to prepare TGNC immigrants for credible/reasonable fear interviews to help ensure that they receive a positive credible fear determination which allows them a chance to apply for asylum in the future. We prioritized the creation of this resource because of the administration push for the use of expedited removal against immigrants. We are also working on a guide for attorneys representing TGNC people and a pro se (self-representation) guide for TGNC detainees, who are often unable to secure timely, knowledgeable representation. TIDE represents an investment in defending and supporting the leadership of TGNC migrants by building out community-based responses to state violence, incarceration, and lack of legal representation that focus various forms of expertise and resources on developing an infrastructure to sustain and further this work. POSITIVELY TRANS PROGRAM Our Positively Trans Program'??s National Advisory Board has grown significantly and is now at 18 members. In March 2017, Positively Trans (T+) released the second and third reports based on our groundbreaking national needs assessment. The second report, Some Kind of Strength takes on the problem that studies of transgender people living with HIV rarely go beyond transmission risk and surveillance data, hindering a holistic understanding of the lives of trans people affected by AIDS that could identify the role of violence and discrimination in creating the conditions that result in the extreme HIV prevalence rates. The third report, See Us as People, addressed the shortcomings of policies that would protect transgender people in theory, but fall short in practice because of a lack of enforcement. Based on the success of the national needs assessment, we are working with members of Positively Trans in Southern Florida, Detroit, and New Orleans to conduct local needs assessments. We organized three digital storytelling workshops during 2017, including one specifically for people on the transmasculine spectrum. MOVEMENT BUILDING PROGRAMS Our Movement Building Programs worked to increase social acceptance and support for TGNC people and policies through leadership development, coalition building, and public education. Our National Training Institute (NTI) conducted 6 'full'?? one- or two-day trainings, including a training for 10 HIV+ trans leaders from across the country who are part of our Positively Trans (T+) National Advisory Board in April in New York; a training for 15 Black trans activists, in the context of the Black Trans Advocacy Conference in Dallas, TX in April; a Spanish-Language training for 15 activists in Houston, TX in May; a training in Portland, OR in August reaching 10 TGNC leaders from the Northwest; a training for 16 TGNC youth of color in the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area, in partnership with the GSA Network in September; and a training in December for 16 activists from Alaska, Montana, and Washington State. We also conducted leadership trainings and workshops at state and regional conferences, leadership convenings and events targeting the Midwest and South, including an intersectional organizing workshop for 50 participants at the Texas Leadership Institute in February 2017; a community organizing training for 20 TGNC people at the National Asian/Pacific Islander Transfusion TransMasculine Gathering, in August; a movement strategy and advocacy training for 20 TGNC people in Washington State in August; and a Southern LGBT Leadership Convening in partnership with Southerners on New Ground reaching 20 TGNC people. We continued to provide support to NTI graduates after the in-person training, through monthly calls and technical assistance as needed. They have been strengthened in existing campaigns and in creating new community campaigns and services. They have also benefitted from the monthly conference calls ??maintaining support networks and using the infrastructure to connect with one another and sustain their activism, so the model is just dependent on relationships with TLC. The National TGNC Coalition met in November 2017 and again in early 2018 to map out coalition work for the upcoming year. 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