Transgender : Speak Up!
While we work in the courts and in legislatures to make the legal landscape better for all transpeople, we realize that it’s just as important to educate the public about gender identity and change public attitudes towards transpeople in order to create sustainable change for the better. Personal stories can captivate and persuade people in ways that legal theories or abstract concepts just can’t. Telling individual people’s stories is key to putting together compelling legal cases and moving public opinion. The ACLU is searching for personal stories to help us inform elected officials, business leaders, the media, and the public as a whole. Please share your story with us.
Report Discrimination
The ACLU LGBT Project seeks to expand legal protections for transgender people. To do this, we take on cases that will not only extend existing civil rights laws to transgender people but also help persuade the general public that civil rights should be accorded to transgender Americans.
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