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fromonesurvivortoanother:

transqueery:

By Matt Wood

Transgender Law Center assisted two transgender women in Los Angeles who were wrongfully asked to leave a restaurant in Burbank in October. While eating dinner, the two women, Jennifer Reid and Victoria Rose were approached by the restaurant’s manager and asked to leave, allegedly because their clothing was not appropriate for a “family restaurant.” The women rightly believed that they were being targeted because of their gender identity and contacted TLC for information about the law and their rights.

Transgender Law Center explained to Jenny and Victoria that the Unruh Civil Rights Act, California’s public accommodations law, prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender identity in business establishments – including transgender and gender nonconforming folks alike.

(Any place that provides goods and services to the general public is considered a public accommodation – this includes restaurants, grocery stores, health clinics, hospitals, health clubs, homeless shelters and most social services).

Armed with this information, Jenny called the restaurant’s Regional Manager and demanded a public apology from the restaurant manager, a refund for the meal she and Victoria were unable to finish, and a promise that the restaurant would do remedial training with all of their managers and staff so that no transgender person would face this kind of discrimination.

Less than 24 hours after that conversation, Jenny was contacted by the Regional Manager who made a personal apology and arranged for the Burbank manager to apologize to Jenny and Victoria in the restaurant in front of the Burbank restaurant staff. Jenny and Victoria were also given a refund and extra gift coupons. Even more impressively, Jenny was then contacted by the restaurant’s Regional Human Resources Manager who was impressed with how informed Jenny was, and had decided to use some of the information from Jenny’s conversation with the Regional Manager to institute sensitivity training for all management and staff at the restaurant chain, effective immediately. As a result of Jenny and Victoria’s courageous self-advocacy, this restaurant chain is now on notice that transgender customers must be treated with the same dignity and respect afforded to all other customers.

Jenny and Victoria’s experience is an example of how transgender and gender nonconforming people often experience discrimination in their communities when accessing public accommodations, including being refused service, being treated differently than their non-transgender peers, or being victims to harmful verbal and physical violence when simply trying to carry out their daily activities.

If you need legal assistance, please call the TLC legal hotline at  (415) 865-0176 x306, or via the online intake form at: http://transgenderlawcenter.org/help

Matt Wood is a staff attorney at Transgender Law Center

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kitten-wall:

Hello everyone, my name is Luisa, I’m 16, and I’m kind of stuck right now. I’m in a place where I can’t come out right now, but if I don’t I’m going to implode. I’m a straight transgender female. I am out to one family member as gay, and while they took it well, I’m not sure the rest of my family would take it as well. I could be kicked out, as I have been before for “coming out” as Agnostic. I was hoping that maybe some of you could help me out a little bit, because I’d like to save up enough money to move out if need be. Also, as many of you know, transition is expensive. I need money for a whole new wardrobe, makeup, HRT, and maybe even surgeries. I am unemployed and growing increasingly desperate. I can’t live this way much longer before something drastic happens. 

The best case scenario for me would be that my parents would deal with me being transgender, and they’d grow increasingly used to it until they accepted it. But even then they’d be reluctant to pay for gender therapy or doctors visits. I’m still young enough that if I can get on hormones soon I have a chance of developing into a natural looking girl, and that’s all I want. But all of that depends on if I can support myself financially or at least prove to my parents that I can cover most of the expenses. Literally any amount of money is appreciated greatly, and any amount makes my dream that much closer to reality. If you’re feeling generous, there is a donation button on my page. Thank you so much. Have a great day.

kitten-wall:

Hello everyone, my name is Luisa, I’m 16, and I’m kind of stuck right now. I’m in a place where I can’t come out right now, but if I don’t I’m going to implode. I’m a straight transgender female. I am out to one family member as gay, and while they took it well, I’m not sure the rest of my family would take it as well. I could be kicked out, as I have been before for “coming out” as Agnostic. I was hoping that maybe some of you could help me out a little bit, because I’d like to save up enough money to move out if need be. Also, as many of you know, transition is expensive. I need money for a whole new wardrobe, makeup, HRT, and maybe even surgeries. I am unemployed and growing increasingly desperate. I can’t live this way much longer before something drastic happens. 

The best case scenario for me would be that my parents would deal with me being transgender, and they’d grow increasingly used to it until they accepted it. But even then they’d be reluctant to pay for gender therapy or doctors visits. I’m still young enough that if I can get on hormones soon I have a chance of developing into a natural looking girl, and that’s all I want. But all of that depends on if I can support myself financially or at least prove to my parents that I can cover most of the expenses. Literally any amount of money is appreciated greatly, and any amount makes my dream that much closer to reality. If you’re feeling generous, there is a donation button on my page. Thank you so much. Have a great day.

myasphyxiatedmind:

Except no, because genderfluid as well as other non-binary and/or genderqueer identities fall under the transgender umbrella. So thanks, but I’ll go ahead and continue identifying as transgender.

(Source: cowfishey)

tuckingandotherskills:

This blog is aimed at DMAB (that’s designated male at birth) trans people. We’re tired of playing second fiddle to DFAB trans people in the queer community and having our spaces flooded exclusively with pictures and advice about binding, packing, testosterone, how to cultivate facial hair, etc. etc.

So here is a blog for you, DMAB people, where we’re going to be talking about tucking, padding, oestrogen, obliterating facial hair, makeup, clothes, and anything else your cisgender parents didn’t teach you, and your queer community was too busy elsewhere to fill you in on.

Some of the advice here will relate particularly to trans* women to do with passing, going stealth, transitioning and so on, but for the most part we’d hope that our advice will be as helpful to DMAB nonbinary trans* people to consolidate their knowledge on how to express their gender too!

warloq:

I need to be dead serious for a minute.

there’s a photo series going around called “Lisalott” by S. Black, featuring the conscious bodies of trans*people clothed (before) and unclothed (after). This was a photoseries posted by my significant other, who had a small number of followers, and he didn’t expect many people to see them. Instead, it got around the tumblrverse and the notes per photo and series both skyrocketed. His friend, the photographer of this series, and he have determined that while the exposure of the Lisalott photographs have been overwhelmingly gratifying, it wasn’t up to them to expose the models to thousands of random people in a snowball-effect style that the internet has a way of carrying out. If you see or reblog ANY photos from the Lisalott series, I implore you to delete them and ask others to do the same. The original poster and the photographer, in accord, have both withdrawn consent for the release of these photos.

The original poster has deleted his account due to complications regarding the Lisalott series.

Serious as a heart attack. Please reblog this. If you have any questions you can direct them to me here. Thank you so much for the support and best be with you.

transpoc:

http://fuckyeahmtfsofcolor.tumblr.com

Check it out, followers!

edman93:

If studying-lgbtq-people inboxes you asking to take part in questions about LGBTQ people “to help her understand” DO NOT DO IT. It is Sophie M Herold, the girl from Germany who attacks LGBTQ people and outs them to others. She is transphobic, homophobic and one of the sickest people I know. And now she’s back with a cunning new plan to get you NAME, ADDRESS, BIRTH DATE, AND PHOTO.

This girl is dangerous, and for some reason is allowed to keep making new tumblr accounts. We’ve raised awareness before and it helped, so lets do it again before she puts another persons life in danger. She collects your information and gives it out to others, she has sent letters to peoples parents outing them, other people have gotten hurt because of her. Yes, hurt.

Even if we can’t stop her again, get this message out and stop others giving her information etc.

And Sophie, you should know by now not to fuck with me again, wrong move, buddy.