Tag: Jillian Weiss
TLDEF Commemorates Transgender Day of Visibility
Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund joins millions throughout the world in celebrating the Transgender Day of Visibility. Transgender Michigan Executive Director Rachel Crandall started TDOV in 2010 “to bring attention to the accomplishments of trans people around the globe while fighting cissexism and transphobia by spreading knowledge of the trans community.”
TLDEF Statement on Supreme Court Decision to Send Gavin Grimm’s Case Back to Fourth Circuit
Today, Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund responded to news that the United States Supreme Court has sent the case of Grimm v. Gloucester County School Board back to the Fourth U.S Circuit Court of Appeals.
TLDEF Statement Regarding Removal of Federal Guidance That Protects Transgender Children
The Trump Administration has withdrawn two letters providing guidance to schools across the nation about transgender student protections under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.
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.
Statement from TLDEF Executive Director Jillian Weiss on the Presidential Election
TLDEF Will Continue to Stand Strong for Trans Communities.