Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund is pleased to announce Our Lady J as the host of this year’s Transgender Advocacy Awards, set for Tuesday, June 12, (6:30 – 8:30 PM) at the Manhattan Penthouse in New York City.
Michael Silverman is Special Counsel at the New York City Commission on Human Rights, where he works to expand and enforce nondiscrimination protections under the City’s Human Rights Law.
Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) will commemorate 15-years of service at this year’s Transgender Advocacy Awards, set for Tuesday, June 12, (6:30 – 8:30 PM) at the Manhattan Penthouse in New York City.
Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) today announced the appointment of Jillian T. Weiss as its new Executive Director. Weiss is a nationally recognised transgender rights attorney and law professor who brings three decades of legal experience to the post. Weiss succeeds Michael Silverman, who founded the organisation in 2003.
The Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund joins advocates across the world in commemorating the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, a day set aside to spotlight the ongoing discrimination and violence confronting LGBT people around the globe.
The Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) applauds the Obama Administration for issuing a directive to all public schools in the U.S stating they must allow transgender students to use bathrooms that match who they are as boys and girls.
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