Tag: Noah Lewis
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TLDEF Files Federal Lawsuit Against Houston County, Georgia for Excluding Medically-Necessary Transgender Health Care in Employee Health Plan
Suit on Behalf of Sheriff’s Deputy Anna Lange, a Dedicated Public Employee Who Has Served Houston County for 13 Years.
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Lawsuit: Steuben County Jail Violates Rights of Transgender People
The New York Civil Liberties Union, Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund, and the law firm BakerHostetler filed a lawsuit yesterday against Steuben County, the Steuben County Sheriff, and several officials and employees at the Steuben County Jail on behalf of a transgender woman whom jail officials housed in a men’s facility while she was awaiting trial.
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Pennsylvania Name Change Law Challenged on Behalf of Three Transgender Women
Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) Pro Bono partner Reed Smith in end of May 2019 filed a court challenge to Pennsylvania’s name change law, which bars name changes for people who have certain felony convictions.
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GLAAD and MTPC release new videos in ‘I AM: Trans People Speak’ series
GLAAD, the nation’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) media advocacy and anti-defamation organization, and the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition (MTPC), announced the national launch of new “I AM: Trans People Speak” videos, featuring New York Times bestseller Professor Jennifer Finney Boylan, actress Laverne Cox, Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund (TLDEF) attorney Noah Lewis, and performance poet Kit Yan.