Social Security Administration Announces Progressive Gender Marker Change Policy
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I was so excited last Friday while attending the Philadelphia Trans Health Conference to get a text from the office back in DC about the announcement of the Social Security Administration (SSA)’s new gender change policy, a change towards which trans advocates have been working for more than seven years. By now, you’ve probably seen…
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Proposed PREA Regulation for Immigration Detainees Includes Trans Protections
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) released a final rule for the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) in May that includes a number of protections for trans people in prison, protections that facilities are already working to implement with the help of trans and LGBT activists. But what about immigration detainees? The DOJ rule doesn’t apply…