#transgender law center

[broadsandbroadswords]

Donation Time!

Hi everyone!

Now that all of the physical and digital copies are out into the world, we've tallied everything up and are delighted to have donated $6,554.02 to the Transgender Law Center.

We sold a total of 368 hard copies, 222 of which were bundled with a copy of volume 1, and 98 digital copies.

We're so honored by all of the support this zine continues to receive, even in a recession like we've all been going through this year. From the phenomenal artists who contributed their time and work to the folks who reblogged, retweeted, and shared all of the posts to-- most importantly-- every person who purchased a copy, we are beyond grateful for your help in raising money for this great organization. And, of course, for loving hot people with swords just as much as we do.

And a special thanks once again to @bigmammallama5, who continues to let us pester her with questions and pick her brain about running zines.

Financial transparency documents and information can be found below the cut. Again, thank you all so much for making this zine a success!

Total Revenues and Expenses

Sales brought in a total of $13,468.95; after fees from Stripe and Paypal and printing and shipping costs, the total profit available for donation was $6,554.02:

Paypal and Stripe Documents

Printing Costs Documents

Packing and Shipping Costs Documents

#broads and broadswords zine #broadswords zine #transgender law center

[disability-can-be]

From The Disability Project:

Today we launch the first ever Disabled & Deaf Trans People’s Survey (DTPS)!

Ableism is woven into our everyday systems yet the knowledge of disabled and Deaf trans people has often been overlooked in research, leadership development, and philanthropy. Collecting stories and data will create opportunities for our leadership and momentum to tell our collective story and fight for our rights and needs.

The DTPS is a survey created by and for disabled and Deaf trans people. This survey gives disabled and Deaf trans people a tool to advocate for ourselves, to organize, and to transform movement spaces.

Please participate in the survey by visiting the survey website!

There are options to take the survey in written English and Spanish, by audio, or by ASL videos, and you can either type or record a reaponse.

For science!

#the disability project #transgender law center #survey #external link #safe link #deaf #disabled #transgender #disabled and trans

[brokehorrorfan]

Mixtape Massacre has teamed up with Gayly Dreadful to release a Pride edition of their “Always a Killer Time” shirt. Priced at $30, 100% of profits will be donated to the Transgender Law Center. Pre-orders close next Friday, May 26, and will ship 2 weeks later.

#mixtape massacre #horror #pride #transgender law center #trans #trans pride #gayly dreadful #shirt #gift #tabletop #tabletop games #board games #horror games #lgbtq #lgbtq pride

[giraffesonparade]

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Hello Friends! I know things have been hard the last few years and sometimes it feels like we can never be truly safe. I’ve been following the Transgender Law Center since 2020 and they do exceptional work to fight for, and protect Trans and nonconforming people. They have help programs, community outreach, dedicated lawyers for those who need someone to stand up for them.

They are the largest national trans-led, trans-focused organization, and they work all across the country changing law, policy, and attitudes.

CLICK HERE TO DONATE

Starting on March 31st, Trans day of Visibility they are starting their crowdfunding campaign. I have made a goal to raise $100 for the TLC. Please Join me if you can to donate.

I know a lot of people on here are struggling but I want you to know there is help. And if you really wish there was something you could do, you can help too! You can donate for the cause and to support the community.

#giraffesonparade #trans #transgender law center #TLC #protect trans kids #trans rights

[cloudstrychnine]

Help us stay housed for my birthday and sue for trans rights!!

My fiance's job assignment ends Friday, I haven't been able to find work my disabled body can do, and we still owe LAST MONTH'S RENT. We're both middle aged and transgender, we do not have families we can lean on. We have Cashapp, Venmo, and a survival GoFundMe. I'll be making a separate GFM for any legal fees, transportation, and other expenses after getting in touch with legal aid.

Two years ago our transphobic landlord illegally evicted us. We were homeless and despite pandemic programs like hotel vouchers being available the only help the state would offer was to direct us to a Christian mission the state has partnered with. We did contact the mission but we were turned away because they told us "we're a church" and would have forced the trans women into men's dorms.

Every single program set up to help people during the pandemic failed us. Even turning to unemployment when my job illegally recorded my medical leave of absence (I was literally dying, hospitalized with acute pancreatitis after covid) as a voluntary termination on my part, they lost paperwork and I wasn't provided accommodations for my disabilities.

Yet our landlords claimed over $6000 in PPP two years ago and had it forgiven.

I'm contacting the ACLU, Transgender Law Center, a local tenant law group, the state bar association, and a few politicians. We need to fight for ourselves and ALL the trans people this state refuses to acknowledge. There are federal funds specifically set aside for LGBTQ+ people and my state has not accepted these funds because the politicians in charge claim we don't have a large enough trans and queer population. This is false, by the way, my state has one of the highest trans populations in the US and that's with extreme under-counting!

#transgender #trans rights #trans crowdfund #disability crowdfund #legal aid #direct aid #long covid #trans discrimination #transphobia #trans homelessness #civil rights #civil liberties #aclu #transgender law center #southern poverty law center #go fund me #systemic transphobia #systemic inequality

[botanist-cool]

Hey y’all! I’m hosting a week long fundraiser for the Transgender Law Center! The TLC is a trans led advocacy group fighting for trans and minority rights! Please check them out and learn about their work!

A bunch of content creators and I are going to be hosting collabs, tournaments, and much more!

So hey if you can interact with the video and share it I’d be grateful! Any and all help and support is appreciated!

If you’re curious as to what’s planned already check out this schedule! More will be added as time goes on!

If you’re a content creator who wants to join send me a DM!

And lastly here’s my incentives and rewards and etc! Tiltify opens July 16th!

#trans rights #Nintendo #splatoon 3 #monster hunter rise sunbreak #transgender law center #ace attorney #twitch streamer #charity fundraising #charity stream #fundrasier #youtube #collab #pokemon #legend of zelda

[xipiti]

Everything Everywhere All at Once may or may not win Best Picture at the Academy Awards, but it remains one of 2022's greatest movies. So chances are you wouldn’t mind owning one—or more!—of the movie’s most iconic props, especially if the money you spent on it was going to a great cause. Or, even more especially, if you could buy a raccoon that would sit on your head, control your actions, and make you an incredible hibachi chef.

Yes, Raccacoonie himself is going up for auction, but that’s not all. Ke Huy Quan’s iconic fanny pack, the buttplug-esque IRS customer service trophy, and even the Evelyn and Joy piñatas from the piñata-verse are going up for sale, all to benefit very good causes. In fact, A24 is offering three auctions’ worth of material for three different organizations: the “Mementoes From the Multiverse” auction, which benefits the Asian Mental Health Project; the “In Another Life” auction, which benefits the Transgender Law Center and includes various outfits including many of Jobu’s fabulous costumes; and the “Laundry and Taxes” auction, whose proceeds go to the Laundry Workers Center, “a not-for-profit, member-led organization that provides community-based leadership development to improve the living and working conditions of low wage laundry, warehouse, and food service workers in New York City and New Jersey.” That auction includes various props from the IRS scene, but also, inexplicably, the freakin’ hot dog fingers.

#eeaao #raccacoonie #charity auction #transgender law center #Asian mental health project #laundry workers center

[wyn-n-tonic]

HEY! if you want to support something really fucking cool, my friend Lorenzo is selling art prints that are inspired by his song Incidental Contact. they're only 10$ and all proceeds go to the Transgender Law Center! Your purchase will also include a digital copy of the single.

YOU CAN SUPPORT HERE!

#transgender law center #trans rights #fundraiser #lorenzo landini

[ingek73]

OMG awesome!

Laundry & Taxes

Audit your life with tax-season friendly treasures from the everyday world of the Wang family, plus a few surprises from the Hot Dog universe. Together, life can be so delicious!

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LAUNDRY WORKERS CENTER

Laundry Workers Center aims to combat abuses such as landlord negligence, wage theft, and hazardous and exploitative working conditions, all of which are endemic in low-income communities in New York City and New Jersey. Their work addresses the need for community-based leadership development geared toward improving the living and working conditions of workers in the laundry, warehouse, and food service industries, as well as their families.

In Another Life Auction

The universe is so much bigger than you realize. Try on Jobu Tupaki's Elvis jumpsuit, Evelyn's Punk Cardigan, or a Raccacoonie-sized chef toque in the Another Life Auction.

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TRANSGENDER LAW CENTER

Transgender Law Center 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 community-driven strategies to keep transgender and gender nonconforming people alive, thriving, and fighting for liberation.

Mementos from the Multiverse

The Daniels took everything and put it on a bagel, and now we're giving it to you. From Raccacoonie to the stunt double from the Rockverse, pick what you want to bring into your reality.

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ASIAN MENTAL HEALTH PROJECT

Asian Mental Health Project aims to educate and empower Pan-Asian communities in seeking mental healthcare. The project offers educational resources, community care initiatives, and grant-based assistance to help make mental healthcare more approachable for the Pan-Asian/APIDA community. Founded in 2019 by Carrie Zhang, the project works to de-stigmatize topics of mental health, critical social issues and provide tangible resources.

#everything everywhere all at once #laundry workers center #transgender law center #asian mental health project

[coochiequeens]

Woman’ is not an ambiguous term open to an evolving interpretation.” - the attorneys representing the women who want to keep the sorority house they pay $8,000 for male free.

By Genevieve Gluck December 14, 2023

The female complainants at the center of a lawsuit to have a trans-identified male removed from a sorority at the University of Wyoming have re-filed their appeal, demanding the court clearly define the word “woman.” Artemis Langford, previously known as Dallin, was accepted into Kappa Kappa Gamma (KKG) last September, spurring several women to file a lawsuit to have him removed.

In August, the case of Westenbroek v. Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity was dismissed on the basis that re-defining “woman” to include males was “Kappa Kappa Gamma’s bedrock right.” Despite hearing testimony from the women, some of whom stated Langford had “watched” them undress with an erection, Judge Alan Johnson rejected the women’s request to rescind Langford’s admission into the sorority.

However, on December 4, the young women filed an appeal to have the dismissal reversed, arguing that Langford’s presence in the sorority house “caused emotional distress in a personalized and unique way,” and demanding that the court clearly define the word “woman.”

In the appeal, the women reassert that Langford displayed “strange and sexual behavior” towards them, and caused them a level of discomfort and anxiety amounting to personal injury. It reiterates claims that Langford had been filming and photographing the women without their consent and had displayed a visible erection while in the house.

“Specifically, Langford’s unwanted staring, photographing, and videotaping of the Plaintiffs, as well as his asking questions about sex and displaying a visible erection while in the house, invaded Plaintiffs’ privacy and caused emotional distress in a personalized and unique way. And thus Plaintiffs have pleaded a viable direct claim. This Court should therefore reverse the district court’s dismissal of Plaintiffs’ derivative and direct claims,” the appeal reads.

Some of the allegations are a reiteration of previous claims, which Langford’s attorney, Rachel Berkness, has attempted to portray as both false and discriminatory during court proceedings. In June, Berkness filed a motion to dismiss the sorority women’s claims against Langford as “frivolous and malicious,” stating: “The allegations against Ms. Langford … were borne out of a hypothesis in search of evidence and pieced together using drunken party stories. Ms. Langford is not a victim; she is a target.”

The initial suit, filed at the end of March, had asserted that Langford, who is 6’2″, had been voyeuristically peeping on the women while they were in intimate situations, and, on at least one occasion, had a visible erection while doing so.

“One sorority member walked down the hall to take a shower, wearing only a towel … She felt an unsettling presence, turned, and saw [Langford] watching her silently,” the court document reads.

“[Langford] has, while watching members enter the sorority house, had an erection visible through his leggings,” the suit says. “Other times, he has had a pillow in his lap.”

As evidenced by his Tinder profile, Langford is “sexually interested in women.” It was further stated in that Langford took photographs of the women while at a sorority slumber party, where he also is said to have made inappropriate comments.

“At a slumber party, Langford ‘repeatedly questioned the women about what vaginas look like, [and] breast cup size,’ and stared as one Plaintiff changed her clothes,” reads the appeal. “Langford also talked about his virginity and discussed at what age it would be appropriate for someone to have sex… And he stated that he would not leave one of the sorority’s sleepovers until after everyone fell asleep.”

Langford was also said to have taken pictures of female members “without their knowledge or consent.” Some of the women noted that they had “observed Langford writing detailed notes about [the students] and their statements and behavior.”

In May, a judge twice prohibited the women from suing anonymously, while stipulating that Langford’s identity should remain protected. Langford was referred to by the pseudonym “Terry Smith” and male pronouns in the legal documents. Six of the women then refiled the lawsuit under their own names, and are requesting that the court void Langford’s membership in KKG.

“It is really uncomfortable. Some of the girls have been sexually assaulted or sexually harassed. Some girls live in constant fear in our home,” one of the sisters, Hannah, told Megyn Kelly during an interview on her podcast.

Rather than addressing the privacy and safety concerns of the women in KKG, who had each paid $8,000 to live in the sorority house, “Kappa officials recommended that … they should quit Kappa Kappa Gamma entirely.”

In June, the sorority filed a motion to dismiss the suit, calling it a “frivolous” attempt to eject Langford for “their own political purposes.” According to the motion, the women suing were flinging “dehumanizing mud” in order to “bully Ms. Langford on the national stage.” The sorority invited the women to resign their membership “if a position of inclusion is too offensive for their personal values.”

In the motion, lawyers for Kappa Kappa Gamma attempted to depict the suit as an attempt by “a vocal minority” to impose their views on Langford and the rest of the sorority members.

“Perhaps the greatest wrongs in this case are not the ones Plaintiffs and their supporters imagine they have suffered, but the ones that they have inflicted through their conduct since filing the Complaint,” they wrote. “Regardless of personal views on the rights of transgender people, the cruelty that Plaintiffs and their supporters have shown towards Langford and anyone in Kappa who supports Langford is disturbing.”

The recent appeal against the suit’s dismissal, filed on behalf of the young women by Sylvia May Mailman of the Independent Women’s Law Center, the Law Office of John G. Knepper, Schaerr Jaffe LLP, and Cassie Craven of Longhorn Law firm, details several alleged violations of the sorority sisters’ rights, as well as KKG’s own policies.

“The question at the heart of this case is the definition of ‘woman,’ a term that Kappa has used since 1870 to prescribe membership, in Kappa’s governing documents,” the appeal states. “Using any conceivable tool of contractual interpretation, the term refers to biological females. And yet, the district court avoided this inevitable conclusion by applying the wrong law and ignoring the factual assertions in the complaint.”

It goes on to note that from 1870 to 2018, KKG defined “woman” to exclude “transgender women” and that any new definition may not be enacted without a KKG bylaw amendment.

Numerous examples are given of rules put forward by the sorority which use the term “woman,” with the attorneys maintaining that “‘woman’ is not an ambiguous term open to an evolving interpretation.”

KKG leaders who approved Langford’s membership have “subverted Kappa’s mission and governing documents by changing the definition of ‘woman’ without following the required processes.” Kappa President Mary Pat Rooney’s legal team has argued that Langford’s admission into the sorority was based on a 2015 position statement which asserts that KKG “is a single-gender organization comprised of women and individuals who identify as women.”

However, the women’s legal appeal points out that KKG can only change its membership criteria by amending its Bylaws, a process which requires a two-thirds majority approval vote by a Convention of board members. As a Convention to amend Bylaws to reflect the position statement was never held, the appeal states, Langford’s acceptance into KKG is a violation of accepted policies.

KKG leadership is also accused of using “coercive” tactics during the process of voting Langford into the organization in September 2022. After an initial anonymous vote conducted via Google poll failed to result in Langford’s acceptance into the sorority, Chapter leaders developed a second, non-anonymous voting system in which multiple sisters changed their votes because of “fear of reprisal.”

In addition to denying women anonymity, Wyoming chapter officials, after consultation with Kappa’s leadership, had told members that voting against Langford’s admission was evidence of “bigotry” that “is a basis for suspension or expulsion from the Sorority.”

Curiously, prior court documents also reveal that Langford was admitted to KKG despite not even meeting their basic academic eligibility requirements. 

While KKG requires applicants to have a 2.7 Grade Point Average (GPA), Langford only had a 1.9 at the time he submitted his membership request, and was not on a grade probation. The legal complaint notes that this indicates Langford’s application was “evaluated using a different standard.”

In November, two longstanding alumni members of KKG revealed they had been expelled in an apparent retaliation for advocating that membership be restricted to females only. Patsy Levang and Cheryl Tuck-Smith had been members of the sorority for over 50 years, and had contributed to fundraising efforts for the organization.

Despite their long history of supporting KKG, Levang and Tuck-Smith were voted out by the sorority’s national leadership on November 9. Levang had been the past Kappa Kappa Gamma National Foundation President, while Tuck-Smith was an active contributor and organizer.

The women’s removal came after they had been vocally opposed to the admission of Langford to the KKG chapter at the University of Wyoming, and had supported a lawsuit launched by members of that sorority to have him removed.

Since news of the lawsuit first became widely circulated, Langford has received ample sympathetic coverage in mainstream media, with one MSNBC host labeling him “brave and unique.” In a recent profile by the Washington Post, Langford was given a platform to accuse the sorority sisters involved in the suit of lying while being compared to women who had historically been denied the right to a basic education.

#usa #university of wyoming #What is a woman? #Artemis Langford is Dallin #What is with TIMs choosing the names of goddesses? #Kappa Kappa Gamma (KKG) #The case of Westenbroek v. Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity #Get Judge Alan Johnson of the bench #Transbian #The court system was offering to protect the creeps identity but not the women involved #The women each paid $8000 to live in the sororiety house #Independent Women’s Law Center #the Law Office of John G. Knepper #Schaerr Jaffe LLP #and Cassie Craven of Longhorn Law firm #from 1870 to 2018 #From 1870 to 2018 KKG defined “woman” to exclude “transgender women” #any new definition may not be enacted without a KKG bylaw amendment #woman is not an ambiguous term open to an evolving interpretation #Convention to amend Bylaws to reflect the position statement was never held #Langford’s acceptance into KKG is a violation of accepted policies. #After an initial anonymous vote conducted via Google poll failed to result in Langford’s acceptance into the sorority #Chapter leaders held a second non-anonymous voting system in which multiple sisters changed their votes because of “fear of reprisal.” #While KKG requires applicants to have a 2.7 Grade Point Average (GPA) #Langford only had a 1.9 at the time he submitted his membership request #and was not on a grade probation. The legal complaint notes that this indicates Langford’s application was “evaluated using a different sta #TIMs claim to be victims but get a lot of perks #Kappa Kappa Gamma (KKG) would rather kick out two women who were active supports of the organization for decades than admit they were wrong

[elizabysmal]

revenge

my final piece for @broadsandbroadswords!

#the zine raised over $6500 for the transgender law center :) #minico #ralph #tiptoe #hARTcore

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Molly Sprayregen at LGBTQ Nation:

Four Southern states have joined together with four conservative organizations to sue the Biden administration over a recently issued rule banning anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination in education.

[...]

The idea is that it’s impossible to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity without taking sex into account, a legal argument that the Supreme Court has already used in its 2020 Bostock v. Clayton Co. ruling with respect to job discrimination.

With the new rule, any school that receives federal funding will no longer be able to discriminate against LGBTQ+ students. This could affect states and school districts with policies to out LGBTQ+ students to their parents or ban trans students from using bathrooms that correspond with their gender. The new rules could also give students who face discrimination recourse in federal courts. Alabama, South Carolina, Florida, and Georgia allege in the lawsuit that the Biden administration does not have the authority to make this rule and also that it goes beyond the original intentions of Title IX, according to CBS News. The states are joined in the lawsuit by the Independent Women’s Network, Parents Defending Education, Speech First, and the Independent Women’s Law Center.

“The role of Cabinet agencies is to interpret laws as written by Congress – not to redefine the meaning of words to suit a fringe group of activists,” said Parents Defending Education president Nicole Neily in a statement, which went on to claim the rule proves “the Biden administration’s contempt for families, trumping state laws which reiterate parents’ right to access information and make decisions about issues related to their children’s gender identity in schools.” “By lowering the standard of ‘harassment’ to little more than a one-off expression of humor, satire, or parody,” Neily continued, “the free speech rights of every young learner in America has become subordinate to how the most sensitive student might interpret a phrase. This Title IX rule is both unconstitutional and immoral, and we look forward to vindicating our members’ rights in court.”

“We will fight very strongly against this rule,” added Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody (R), “just to ensure this does what Congress intended it to do, and that is provide opportunities to everyone and especially protect the security and fairness for our biological females.” Moody also claimed the new rule “is really a radical departure from what Title IX was originally meant to do.” The lawsuit alleges that the rule “conflicts with many of the state plaintiffs’ laws that govern public institutions of higher education and primary and secondary education, including laws involving harassment, bathrooms, sports, parental rights, and more.” It continues, “The rule thus impedes the state plaintiffs’ sovereign authority to enforce and administer their laws and creates pressure on the state plaintiffs to change their laws and practices.” The new rules, however, do not discuss transgender student-athletes and which teams they can play on. The DOE is reportedly planning to issue a separate rule regarding what Title IX means for sports participation.

4 Southern states are suing the Biden Administration for the right to discriminate against LGBTQ+ children over the LGBTQ+-friendly Title IX changes.

#Title IX #Anti LGBTQ+ Extremism #Anti Trans Extremism #LGBTQ+ #Joe Biden #Biden Administration #Transgender #Alabama #Georgia #Florida #South Carolina #Ashley Moody #Parents Defending Education #Nicole Neily #Independent Women’s Network #Independent Women's Law Center #Forced Outing

[benandstevesposts]

#black lives matter #aclu #lgbt #lgbtqi #black lgbt #cnn #black stories #news #naacp #black history #southern poverty law center #democratic party #blacklivesmatter #liberal #politics #transgender #civil rights movement #civil resistance #american civil liberties union #civil rights #civil liberties #police attack #police brutality #police assault #police violence #police crime #police militarization #police murder #police misconduct #police killing

[vodid]

happy pride month! 🏳️‍🌈 here is a preview of my piece for the Spectrum Zine on twitter

pre-order here ✨

#pls reblog yall know how much tumblr hates links lmao #every donation will go to the transgender law center!! <3 #maccadam #transformers #bayverse #ratchet #ironhide #vart

[astfut]

openlynews || meduza

upd: putin signs russia law banning trans healthcare and adoptions, and annulling marriages. PinkNews || The New York Times || Meduza

upd (July 27, 2023): Center-T and Coming Out LGBTQ+ Group have launched a petition for simplification of asylum procedures in EU for transgender people from Russia. ➡ Please sign and share. ⚠ upd (November 23, 2023): Petition calling for easier access to refugee status for trans* people from russia in Germany created by the activist team "Quarteera" The petition can be signed without being a German citizen. ➡ post // ➡ petition

Please if you have the means consider donating to the following:

➡ Queer Svit - https://queersvit.taplink.ws/

➡ North Caucasus SOS - https://ncsos.io/

➡ Center-T - https://centre-t.com/english

➡ KilkoT-Action (КилькоТ-Действие) - https://boosty.to/kilkota

➡ Delo LGBT+ - https://www.delo.lgbt/ || https://boosty.to/delolgbt

➡ Sphere Foundation - https://spherequeer.org/en/

➡ Coming Out LGBTQ+ Group - https://comingoutspb.org/en/home/

#trans rights #queer rights #trans #transgender #lgbt #Igbtq+ #lgbtq #queer #current events #tw queerphobia #tw transphobia

[wondernwriter]

#lgbtq positivity #lgbt representation #lgbtq community #transgender #transisbeautiful #beijing #China #lgbtq center #gay love #gay rights #anti gay laws