Transgender Law Center

 Transgender Law Center changes law, policy, and attitudes so that all people can live safely, authentically, and free from discrimination regardless of their gender identity or expression.  Transgender Law Center (TLC) is the largest national trans-led organization advocating for a world in which all people are free to define themselves and their futures. Grounded in legal expertise and committed to racial justice, TLC employs a variety of community-driven strategies to keep transgender and gender nonconforming people alive, thriving, and fighting for liberation.

 The Trans Agenda for Liberation is a community-led guide towards the world we deserve.  Trans people hold the knowledge, power, and joy to create a future where we can all not only survive but thrive. This agenda addresses the urgent political, legal, and social violence enacted against our communities, while channeling trans imagination to bring our boldest visions to life. 

The Trans Agenda grows out of the work that communities and individuals are already doing, and points toward work that still needs to be done.

 The Trans Agenda centers the lives and voices of trans people of color  who have too often had to advance our collective liberation from the margins. Trans justice is migrant justice, disability justice, racial justice, environmental justice, reproductive justice, economic justice, and gender justice.  An agenda for trans liberation is a blueprint for liberation for all. 

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The Trans Agenda for Liberation is put forward by a national coalition of majority Black, indigenous, and migrant trans, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming leaders, working with Transgender Law Center. We have challenged each other, supported each other’s work, and dreamed about how we can realize a future where we are all free. Together, we birthed a framework to understand the forces harming our communities, and how we can unite to bring forward something new. 

Lead authors: Micky B and Ash Stephens of Transgender Law Center 

National coalition membership has shifted over time, and has included: Dee Dee Chamblee, LaLa Zannell, LaSaia Wade, Umí Vera, Kiara St. James, Emmett Schelling, Cathy Kapua, Evonne Kaho, Janetta Johnson, Mattee Jim, Tamara Jean, Gabriel Foster, Isyss Honnen, Bamby Salcedo, Stefanie Rivera, AnaAndrea Molina, Jennicet Gutiérrez, Zahara Green, Tiara Gendi, Marin Watts, Andy Marra, Sasha Buchert, Isa Noyola, Ola Osaze, Chase Strangio, Gia Cordova, Yozantli Lagunas Guerrero, Sophia Kass, Oluchi Omeoga, Ash Stephens, Kayla Gore, Mariah Moore, and Shelby Chestnut

🌺  PILLAR I: BLACK TRANS WOMEN AND BLACK TRANS FEMMES LIVING AND LEADING FIERCELY 
🌺  PILLAR II: BELOVED HOME 
🌺  PILLAR III: DEFINING OURSELVES 
🌺  PILLAR IV: INTERGENERATIONAL CONNECTION AND LIFELONG CARE 
🌺  PILLAR V: FREEDOM TO THRIVE 

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