Program 1

Community Legal Services

Since we opened our doors in 2002, we have talked to, or emailed with, more than 3,000 people who had questions about their legal rights in more than a dozen areas of law. Through answering these questions (or sometimes only trying to answer them), we not only help people address their immediate legal needs, but we keep ourselves informed about the day-to-day issues that transgender people and our families are facing.

Program long term success

Working the San Francisco LGBT Community Center, we fostered the creation of the nation's leading transgender economic development program. Through data we gathered for our Good Jobs NOW! publication, we were able to secure, for the first time in history, significant public funds to support this work and the creation of the Transgender Economic Empowerment Initiative.

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Program 2

Project HEALTH

The purpose of this grant, led by the Transgender Law Center and Lyon-Martin Health Services, is to increase access to community clinics for transgender people while forging partnerships in which community members, providers, and advocacy organizations work together to improve community health.

Program long term success

This project will build capacity at 20 clinics, increase provider training, advocate for state-level policy change, and build community capacity to promote local change.

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Pre- and post-test assessments of clinics, community members, and trainees.

Program success examples

- 29 post-graduate students in health fields have completed a clinical rotation in transgender health.
- 11 clinics have increased their capacity and competency for working with transgender patients.
- The Humboldt HEALTH Council successfully organized for the launch of a monthly transgender clinic in Arcata, CA, and the addition of "gender identity and expression" as protected categories in the county's employment non-discrimination policy.

Program 3

TRUTH

TRUTH is a national trans and gender nonconforming youth storytelling campaign that aims to build empathy, understanding, and a movement for youth to share their stories in their own words and in their own way.

TRUTH builds public understanding and empathy through short video profiles of youth and their families; provides support through a Storytelling Toolkit guiding youth and families through the process of speaking out; connects trans and gender nonconforming youth through the #transTRUTH selfie campaign and a youth council leading the next phases of the project; and educates media professionals on best practices of reporting on trans and gender nonconforming youth.

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Program 4

Positively Trans

TLC launched T+ as a response to the structural inequalities that drive the high rate of HIV/AIDS and poor health outcomes. By partnering with a National Advisory Board of community leaders, T+ seeks to mobilize and promote resilience of trans people most impacted by or living with HIV/AIDS, particularly trans women of color, through research, policy advocacy, legal advocacy, and leadership strengthening.

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Program 5

Detention Project

Transgender Law Center’s Detention Project works to end the abuses transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) people experience in prisons, jails, immigration detention, state hospitals, and other forms of detention, and at the hands of law enforcement.

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