Tag: Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund
TLDEF Condemns Hateful Remarks Calling For the Death of Transgender Women on The Breakfast Club
Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund condemns the transphobic remarks made by comedian Lil Duval on The Breakfast Club, a syndicated morning radio show.
Transgender Legal Observes One-Year Memorial of Pulse Nightclub Tragedy
Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund joins millions of advocates across the world in honouring the 49 precious souls taken in a heinous act of violence one year ago today at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando.
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.
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.
TLDEF Names Jillian T. Weiss Executive Director
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.