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The Transgender Law and Policy Institute: Home Page
Welcome to the Transgender Law and
Policy Institute. We are a non-profit organization dedicated to engaging in
effective advocacy for transgender people in our society. The TLPI brings experts and
advocates together to work on law and policy initiatives designed to advance transgender
equality.
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Resources
Legislation:
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Litigation: Case Law
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Also, please visit the pages of our sister
organizations:
National Center for Transgender Equality
Transgender Law Center, San Francisco.
Sylvia Rivera Law Project, New York City
News:
Employment Non-Discrimation Act
October 17th, 2007--Washington, DC--
Banding Together: The division in Congress about whether employment protections should
exclude transgender workers has forced unity for gay rights activists across the board. By
Shannon Minter. Read more at
The Advocate.
October 15, 2007--Washington, DC--Bill to Protect GLB Workers Advances Without
the T. Democrats on Thursday sent to the full House legislation that would prohibit
workplace discrimination against gays, lesbians, and bisexuals, despite bitter complaints
from some because transgender workers would not be protected under the bill. Democratic
leaders pushed forward the current bill after discovering that including transgender
workers in the legislation would cause it to fail in the full House, and promised to try
and get additional legislation in the future. Four Democrats -- Dennis Kucinich of Ohio,
Rush Holt of New Jersey, Linda Sanchez of California, and Yvette Clarke of New York --
voted against the bill because of its exclusion of gender identity. ''We could have done
better,'' Sanchez said. Read
more.
Visit United
ENDA for updates on ENDA, and to take action, and to email your representative.
ENDA October 1, 2007:-Washington, DC--From
NGLTF: "More than 90 lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender organizations tell
Congress: Don't leave transgender people behind!" Read the letter.
It’s Your History—Use It! Talking Points for Tran-Inclusive
ENDA Activists by Susan Stryker.
March 26, 2007--Geneva--‘Yogyakarta
Principles’ a Milestone for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights; Experts
Set Out Global Standards for Sexual Rights and Gender Equality. A groundbreaking set of
principles on sexual orientation, gender identity, and international law is a landmark
advance in the struggle for basic human rights as well as gender equality, Human Rights
Watch and the Center for Women’s Global Leadership said today. The document, known as
the Yogyakarta Principles after the city where it was adopted, was launched today in
Geneva by a group of 29 international human rights experts. Complete HRW Press Release here. The Yogyakarta
Principles are online here: yogyakartaprinciples.org.
March 4, 2007--Transgender
Rights, edited by Paisley Currah, Richard M. Juang, and Shannon Price Minter
is a finalist in the 2007 Lambda Literary Awards.
March 2, 2007--United Kingdom--New
Research Report released, "Engendered Penalties: Transgender and Transsexual
People’s Experiences of Inequality and Discrimination." Authored by
Stephen Whittle, Lewis Turner and Maryam Al-Alami, this 95 page report was commissioned by
the UK Government's Equalities Review. As a consequence of the report's findings, the UK
Government has announced that transgender will be a protected category (along with sex
& gender; race & ethnicity; physical or mental disability; religion & faith;
age; and sexual orientation) for the new Equalities and Human Rights Commission that
starts work in October 2007. Report is online in PDF here here.
December 14, 2006--Trenton, NJ--New Jersey
Legislature passes bill that adds civil rights protections for transgender people. Story here.
December 5, 2006--New York, NY--The
New York City Board of Health voted today to reject, in part, a proposal to update New
York City’s policy permitting transgender people born in New York City to change the
gender on their birth certificates to bring the policy – which has not been updated
since 1971 – into line with contemporary medical knowledge and practice. While the
Board did vote to allow new birth certificates to be issued with a transgender
person’s new gender marked on them, they rejected a common sense medical
recommendation to better recognize a person’s transition from one gender to another.
Complete press release here.
Popular items and select recent resources
September
2007--Transgender Issues: A Fact Sheet. PDF here.
March 2005--Nice
map of transgender non-discrimination laws published by Congressional Quarterly, updated
March 2005. Here.
February 2005--New
best practices TLPI guide by TLPI board member Brett Beemyn: Ways that Colleges and
Universities Meet the Needs of Transgender Students here.
Transgender People and the
Federal Marriage Amendment: Frequently Asked Questions, from the
Transgender Law Center, the National Center for Transgender Equality, and the Transgender
Law and Policy Institute. Here in PDF.
Shannon Minter,
"Representing Transsexual Clients: Selected Legal Issues." Overview of all the significant transgender
related case law in the U.S., including marriage, discrimination, immigration and asylum, health
care, prison issues, hate crimes. In HTML format.
Health:
Overview
of top U.S. Transgender Health Priorities, in PDF, National Coalition for LGBT
Health.
FTM
and MTF Trans Health Fact Sheets, in PDF, National Colation of LGBT Health
Recommendations for Transgender Health
Care, Transgender Law Center.
Shelters:
Transitioning Our Shelters: A Guide to Making Homeless Shelters Safe for
Transgender People (PDF), December 15, 2003, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, By
Lisa Mottet and John M. Ohle
Legislative Resources:
March 2005--Nice map of
transgender non-discrimination laws published by Congressional Quarterly, updated March
2005. Here.
March 2005--Nice map of
transgender non-discrimination laws published by Congressional Quarterly, updated March
2005. Here.
Joint TLPI-NGLTF comprehensive chart, "Scope of Explicitly
Transgender-Inclusive Non-Discrimination Laws." In pdf here. (Sometimes
this large chart doesn't load right; if so, email
us for a copy.)
See also these charts from the NGLTF
Transgender Civil Rights Project:
1. Years passed between sexual orientation and gender
identity/expression
2. Year in Review: State and Local Trans-Inclusive Legislation 2005 /
2004 / 2003 / 2002
3. Populations of jurisdictions with explicitly transgender-inclusive
anti-discrimination laws here.
 September 2006--University
of Minnesota Press releases Transgender Rights, edited by
Paisley Currah, Richard M. Juang, and Shannon Price Minter. Over the past
three decades, the transgender movement has gained visibility and achieved significant
victories. Discrimination has been prohibited in several states, dozens of municipalities,
and more than two hundred private companies, while hate crime laws in eight states have
been amended to include gender identity. Yet prejudice and violence against transgender
people remain all too common. With analysis from legal and policy experts, activists and
advocates, Transgender Rights assesses the movement’s achievements, challenges, and
opportunities for future action. Examining crucial topics like family law, employment
policies, public health, economics, and grassroots organizing, this groundbreaking book is
an indispensable resource in the fight for the freedom and equality of those who cross
gender boundaries. For more information, and a table of contents, click here.
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Contact us:
If you have a question about how the law in your jurisdiction affects you, or are
looking for a referral, email us here.
If you are a reporter, go here.
If you have information about new laws, regulations or policies affecting transgender
people or notice a bad link, or, let us know.
These pages are a community effort and we really appreciate your feedback.
If you are considering drafting and/or proposing a state or local anti-discrimination
law, the Transgender Law and Policy Institute, working with Lisa Mottet of the Transgender
Civil Rights Project at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force is available to advise
you. Email us here.
If you've found the information on these web pages helpful, please consider supporting
our sister organization, the Transgender Law Center, whose staff
volunteers to help answer the legal queries you send us. If you can, please help out this
important institution by giving online here.
You can read more about the Transgender Law Center on their web page here
These pages are a community effort. Unlike
the pages of many advocacy organizations, we don't ask for a contribution in the form of
money. We
do, however, ask you to share your knowledge and experience with other
transgender rights advocates. If you have developed resources for lobbying --
education handouts, legal memoranda, testimony, reports of violence and discrimination --
and would agree to post or link them here, please email them to us as attachments or send us the
URL for linking. We will convert them for you, and post them with your name/logo
prominently displayed.
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Institute 2007
Email: query@transgenderlaw.org
Mailing address:
Transgender Law and Policy Institute
328 Flatbush Avenue, Box 312
Brooklyn, NY 11238
These pages have been created and are
maintained by Paisley Currah,
Board member and Founder of the Transgender Law and Policy Institute
and Associate Professor of Political Science, Brooklyn College of the City Unviersity of
New York.
Last edited: 10/19/2007
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