Tag: Ezra Young
101 Transgender Americans Voice Support for Gavin Grimm as His Landmark Title IX Discrimination Case Heads to The Supreme Court
TLDEF Brief Spotlights Positive Contributions of Transgender Americans and Harms of Denying them Basic Freedoms that Allow Full Participation in Society.
TLDEF Fights for Wrongfully Fired Professor at Fifth Circuit
Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund has asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to reconsider its dismissal of TLDEF’s appeal on behalf of an English Professor who was fired from from her teaching position on the basis of her sex.
TLDEF Names Kylar W. Broadus Senior Counsel
Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund announces the appointment of Kylar W. Broadus to the position of Senior Counsel within TLDEF’s growing impact litigation program, headed by TLDEF’s Director of Impact Litigation, Ezra Young. Broadus is a nationally renowned attorney, activist, public speaker and former professor who is universally admired by advocates across the LGBT rights movement.
Transgender Woman Asks Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to Allow a Path Forward for Her Title VII Discrimination Case
Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund client Dr. Rachel Tudor has asked the New Orleans based United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to overturn a nationwide injunction issued by a federal judge in Wichita Falls, Texas, which has disrupted transgender sex discrimination cases throughout the country, including her own.
TLDEF Files Brief in Support of Transgender Man’s Hospital Discrimination Lawsuit
Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) has filed a friend of the court brief in the U.S. District Court of Minnesota in support of Jakob Rumble, a transgender man who is suing a hospital and medical group in suburban Minneapolis for the discriminatory treatment he received during an emergency room visit and hospitalisation in June of 2013.
Name Change Victory for Transgender Man in New York
Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund announces a name change victory for a transgender man in New York. A state appeals court has granted a legal name change for Ben Stanford, reversing a lower court decision that initially denied his name change petition because he declined to share “medical evidence” of his gender transition.