Aurielle Lucier, Author at Transgender Law Center

Queer & Trans Migrants of Color Shut Down Intersection in Albuquerque for Three Hours

Aurielle Lucier — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 01:26:39 +0000

Six leaders in the LGBTQ+ and immigrant rights movement boldly block an intersection in front of Bernillo County Metropolitan Court, uplift queer and trans migrants Roxsana Hernandez and Udoka Nweke (Albuquerque, N.M.) Today, over one hundred queer and trans migrants of color provided support as six leaders in the LGBTQ+ and immigrant rights movement engaged […]

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TLC’s Raquel Willis Announces: Black Trans Circles

Aurielle Lucier — Sat, 25 Aug 2018 01:29:51 +0000

Today is the birthday of radical movement leader Marsha P. Johnson. Her story is one of bravery, dedication, and power. As we remember the brilliant work she did throughout her entire life for the LGBTQIA+ movement, let’s also acknowledge the blueprint she left for her Black trans daughters who would come up and into their […]

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Celebrating Our Volunteers: Susan’s Dedication to Trans Liberation

Aurielle Lucier — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 00:10:35 +0000

Three years ago, Susan Livingston and her husband used TLC’s “ID Please!” to help their daughter legally change her name and gender marker on all of her identity documentation. “We were so grateful for the work that had already been done by TLC, which provided a resource guide that included a roadmap to execute identity documentation […]

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Reflections from AIDS 2018

Aurielle Lucier — Wed, 22 Aug 2018 00:04:30 +0000

In July, several National Advisory Board members of TLC’s Positively Trans program traveled to the International AIDS Conference to represent our work in communities of trans folks living and thriving with HIV. The International AIDS Conference is the largest conference on any global health issue in the world, with over 17,000 activists, artists, scientists, and […]

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Centering Trans Voices at International AIDS Conference

Aurielle Lucier — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 05:15:19 +0000

This week, Positively Trans has brought a delegation to the International AIDS conference, a gathering of more than 15,000 researchers, activists and policymakers from more than 160 countries gathered in Amsterdam. Programs Director Cecilia C. Chung wants to push trans folks, specifically trans women of color, to the center of the international community’s HIV/AIDS discussion. “We […]

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Supreme Court decision on Muslim ban echoes cruelest chapters of our history as a country

Aurielle Lucier — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 18:35:46 +0000

In response to the Supreme Court’s decision on the Muslim ban and several decisions attacking voting rights and reproductive care, Transgender Law Center executive director Kris Hayashi issued the following statement: “Today, the Supreme Court capped off a shameful string of decisions targeting the most vulnerable in our communities by upholding President Trump’s cruel and […]

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Transgender Law Center Decries Supreme Court Ruling in Masterpiece Case

Aurielle Lucier — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 22:11:33 +0000

(Oakland, CA) – Today, the Supreme Court of the United States failed to protect a gay couple from unfair treatment. While the 7-2 decision applies only to this particular case, we are troubled by the threat it poses to advances made in civil and human rights and frustrated that the Court did not unequivocally denounce discrimination. However, the ruling is clear that state […]

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Thank You For Being #ACAPositive With Us!

Aurielle Lucier — Fri, 01 Jun 2018 18:51:54 +0000

At the beginning of May, TLC’s Positively Trans project launched the #ACApositive campaign, a social media awareness campaign aiming to shift conversations about health care towards a focus on the life or death stakes for the trans community and to demand that the voices of trans people living with HIV be heard. “[Positively Trans] launched this campaign, […]

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Federal Court in Virginia Rules School Discriminated Against Transgender Student

Aurielle Lucier — Wed, 23 May 2018 20:08:40 +0000

Yesterday, U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Virginia denied the school board’s motion to dismiss in the Gavin Grimm case, joining the overwhelming majority of courts that have conclusively decided that both Title IX and the Constitution require that schools not discriminate against transgender students. This case was brought by the ACLU on behalf […]

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TLC Condemns Trump Bureau of Prisons Move Exposing Trans People to Violence

Aurielle Lucier — Sat, 12 May 2018 01:51:47 +0000

Late Friday, BuzzFeed reported that the Trump administration erased federal Bureau of Prisons rules intended to address the health and safety of incarcerated transgender people. These rules, grounded firmly in the Prison Rape Elimination Act signed by George W. Bush, were an attempt to reduce the violence, harassment, abuse and sexual assault that transgender and […]

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