Please join us at our 14th Anniversary Celebration - SPARK! Get your tickets today and help support the rights of transgender and gender nonconforming people nationwide. This year’s celebration promises to be even bigger than before! bit.ly/TLCSPARK16
#TLCSPARK16
Please join us at our 14th Anniversary Celebration-SPARK! Get your tickets today and help support the rights of transgender and gender nonconforming people nationwide. This year’s celebration promises to be even bigger than before! bit.ly/TLCSPARK16
#TLCSPARK16
A trans woman found murdered in an apartment in south central El Paso on Monday, August 9 has been identified as 36-year-old Latina trans woman Erykah Tijerina (warning for misgendering at link).
Columbus, Ohio police are investigating the death of 28-year-old Rae'Lynn Thomas, who was shot and killed by her mother’s ex-boyfriend, who lived with her family at the time, according to WBNS
(warning for misgendering at link).
Learn their names. Read their stories. Seek justice.
We must #StopTransViolence.
1.TLC leads skill-based trainings to educate local trans leaders in the states facing anti-trans legislation & ballot initiatives.
2.TLC increases public understanding of the lives and struggles of trans folks and their families through compelling storytelling.
3. Our Positively Trans program centers the voices, needs and leadership of trans and gender nonconforming people living with HIV/AIDS.
4. TLC’s Detention
Project works to end the abuses transgender and gender nonconforming people
face in prisons, jails, immigration detention, state hospitals and at the hands of law enforcement.
5. TLC@SONG, a collaboration, marries our legal & policy expertise with Southerners On New Ground’s southern organizing prowess.
6. When #HB2 hit North Carolina, TLC@SONG responded with a mix of legal strategies, organized resistance and other efforts on the ground.
7. TLC educates government officials about the specific needs of trans women immigrants, particularly those in detention facilities.
8. In 2015, the TLC Helpline responded to more than 2,660 requests for legal information and assistance. Go #TransJustice!
9. In 2015, TLC and sister organizations gathered 100+ leaders for the National Trans Anti-Violence Convening, the first national gathering on anti-trans violence.
10. TRUTH, a collaboration between TLC & GSA Network, is building a national trans & GNC youth storytelling movement. #ProtectTransYouth
Make sure you know your donations are going back into the trans community on #GiveOUTday! Schedule your gift at bit.ly/TLCgiveout
Transgender Law Center and GSA Network, TRUTH is a national storytelling and movement-building campaign that aims to build a network of transgender and gender nonconforming young people changing narratives around gender by telling their own stories in their own ways.
The National TRans yoUTH (TRUTH) Council will help lead a youth movement for transgender justice by working with other transgender and gender nonconforming youth to share their stories, create media campaigns, and organize with TGNC folks on a national level. In recognition of the effort and work council members are expected to put in, a stipend will be included.
“Transgender youth should have the same opportunity as all other students to go to school and get an education without being singled out for harassment and discrimination by school administrators,” said Kris Hayashi, the executive director of the Transgender Law Center, which is representing Whitaker along with lawyers from firms in Milwaukee and Washington, D.C.
TRUTH, a collaboration between TLC and GSA Network, is building a national trans & gender nonconforming youth movement for youth to share their stories on their own terms and in their own way! Support TRUTH on #GiveOUTDay and schedule your pledge today: bit.ly/TLCgiveout
The Orlando Pulse massacre in June shocked the country, and it quickly became clear that the shooting had taken place in a gay nightclub. But it was also Latin night at Pulse, and the shooting took place on the eve of the Puerto Rican Day festival. The 49 victims were largely Latino and gay, many of them Puerto Rican.
Latino and Latina LGBTQ people and their families already face challenges others may not, from language barriers to fear of deportation. That divide became more apparent in the effort to get support to victims and their families.
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“Gender identity is the color I get to put on the pages of my personal coloring book.”
Only I get to decide what that looks like and trust me, it’s fantastic! #transTRUTH