Advocating for Trans Rights: Gender Justice League Hosts Clinics to Help Trans People Change Names and Gender Markers on Legal Documents

Advocating for Trans Rights: Gender Justice League Hosts Clinics to Help Trans People Change Names and Gender Markers on Legal Documents

On a drizzly Sunday afternoon in February, the meeting room at the Columbia City library branch was bustling with chatter and activity as volunteers with backgrounds as lawyers, paralegals, notaries, case workers and social workers helped around 100 people who sought guidance about changing their name or gender marker on legal documents. Hosted by the Gender Justice League…

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Lambda Legal and Human Rights Campaign Foundation File Lawsuit to Block Trump Administration’s Transgender Military Service Ban

Lambda Legal and Human Rights Campaign Foundation File Lawsuit to Block Trump Administration’s Transgender Military Service Ban

Lambda Legal and the Human Rights Campaign Foundation (HRCF) today filed a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Trump administration’s ban on military service by transgender individuals. The lawsuit—brought in response to the administration’s executive order – was filed on behalf of six actively serving transgender service members, a transgender person seeking to enlist in the military, and Gender Justice League, a civil and human rights organization headquartered in Seattle.

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