Training and Reference Materials

  • Barriers to legal services
    Quick reference guide to barriers to transgender people getting legal services and Tips for service providers on making services accessible to trans people.
  • Trans 101
    From the San Francisco Transgender Law Center
  • Map: non-discrimination laws
    PDF of jurisdictions with transgender-inclusive non-discrimination laws from the Transgender Law and Policy Institute.

  • Flow Chart: Disproportionate Incarceration
    Diagram illustrating how overpolicing and profiling of low income people and of trans and gender non-conforming people intersect, producing a far higher risk than average of imprisonment, police harassment, and violence for low income trans people.

  • Flow Chart: Disproportionate Poverty
    Transgender and gender non-conforming people are much more likely to be poor or homeless than the average person. This flow chart shows how various factors combine into an interlocking system that keep many trans and gender non-conforming people in situations that are vulnerable and unequal.

  • Chart: non-discrimination laws that include trans people
    PDF of non-discrimination laws in the US that explicitly include transgender people from the Transgender Law and Policy Institute.

  • Legal Needs Assessment of San Francisco's Transgender Communities
    A Legal Needs Assessment of San Francisco's Transgender Communities, by Shannon Minter and Christopher Daley.

  • Trans Youth and the Prison Industrial Complex
    Youth, and trans and gender non-conforming youth even more so, are particularly vulnerable. This chart, Transgender Youth and the Prison Industrial Complex: Disrupt The Flow, from FIERCE and the Prison Moratorium Project, illustrates some of these mechanisms.

  • Flow chart: Disproportionate deportation
    The deportation rates of trans and gender non-conforming immigrants are disproportionately higher than those of non-trans identified immigrants. This diagram attempts to explore the various reasons why this is happening.

  • Tips for Communicating with Transgender Clients in Prisoners’ Rights Cases
    This is a list of communication tools that we suggest attorneys use as a guide when interacting with transgender clients who are incarcerated.