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Transgender Youth

Transgender youth face unique legal issues and challenges in the fight for equality. NCLR is the only LGBTQ legal organization with a project focused on the little “t” in LGBTQ and has been a leading advocate for the rights of transgender youth. Through litigation and advocacy, NCLR has helped ensure that transgender youth have the support and opportunities they need to thrive.

Advocacy

Legislation & Policy

TGNC Youth in Confinement Facilities

Nationwide

NCLR received support from the National Prison Rape Elimination Act Resource Center (PRC) to develop a model policy for confinement facilities housing transgender, gender nonconforming and intersex youth. NCLR and the Center for Children’s Law and Policy worked with a diverse group of youth justice stakeholders, including advocates for TGNCI communities, formerly incarcerated young people, facility personnel, and youth justice practitioners from across the country. Together, we produced the model policy which was published by the PRC. Based on the policy, NCLR and the National Juvenile Defender Center created a checklist for juvenile defenders to help juvenile defenders advocate for the safety and well-being of TGNCI youth in secure and non-secure facilities.

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Press Release

Kentucky Families and Civil Rights Groups Statement on US Supreme Court Oral Arguments in United States v. Skrmetti

“The plaintiffs today made a strong case that, on its face, this law discriminates by barring medications based solely on a person’s birth sex,” said Shannon Minter,  Vice President of Legal at the National Center for Lesbian Rights. “The State of Tennessee had no effective response to that obvious fact, which several justices made clear. Based on today’s argument, we are hopeful the Court will rule that Tennessee’s law discriminates based on sex and must therefore be subject to the same high standard of review applied to all other sex-based laws. That would be a huge victory and would provide clear guidance for the lower courts about how to evaluate these laws.”

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