Trans Employment and the Supreme Court 8/19/2019 To Our Dear Community — Last Friday, the Trump administration issued a brief to the Supreme Court asking it to rule that it is legal for employers to fire people for being transgender.…
April 24, 2019 | 3 min. read On days like today, it can feel like trans people never get the chance to fully heal. The US Supreme Court—stacked with conservative justices—announced Monday that it plans to examine whether the ban on sex…
March 13, 2019 | 2 min. read Yesterday, the US Defense Department approved a plan to ban transgender people who have transitioned from enlisting in the military. The policy will also keep people currently enlisted in the military from beginning a transition…
January 22, 2019 | 2 min. read To Our Dear Community. Today, the Supreme Court of the United States voted to allow the Trump administration’s transgender military ban to proceed. Meanwhile, the battle over the constitutionality of the ban itself plays…
October 26, 2018 | 3 min. read October 26 is Intersex Awareness Day! We wanted to take a moment to honor our entire intersex community. While most intersex people aren’t trans, many of the issues that our communities face are…
October 22, 2018 | 2 min. read To Our Beloved Community, Yesterday, the New York Times published an article detailing the ways the Trump administration plans to legally redefine sex and gender, starting with our youth. This plan, while not yet officially…
October 6, 2018 | 2 min. read Today’s vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, and the weeks of debate leading up to it, have been stark reminders of how our systems of power can preserve and perpetrate…
August 22, 2018 | 1 min. read The National Prison Strike begins this week and continues until September 9. Prison abolition is queer liberation; for that reason, Trans Lifeline is in solidarity with the prison strike. To learn more about…
June 27, 2018 | 3 min. read Dear Ones, It’s been another rough week in the news, and we know each new headline can feel like another reason to lose faith. But tonight, we at Trans Lifeline want to remind…
