Students will meet with transgender individuals who are seeking to correct or update their names and/or gender markers on basic forms of identification. Students will collect information and documents from individuals, explain the name and gender marker change process, and draft petitions and orders.
Organization
Gender Affirmation Project, Mithoff Pro Bono Program
The Gender Affirmation Project is a student-led internal project of the Richard and Ginni Mithoff Pro Bono Program in partnership with OUTLaw. The January 29 GAP Clinic is being held in partnership with the KIND Medical-Legal Partnership (MLP). KIND MLP is a collaboration between Texas Legal Services Center and Texas Health Action’s KIND Clinic to address the health-harming legal needs of LBGTQ+ Texans and their communities through direct legal services, education and training, and population-health policy advocacy.
Project Details
- Website
- https://law.utexas.edu/probono/projects/special-projects/trans-legal-name-gender-marker-project/
- Project Date
Friday, January 29
- Project Time
- 3:45pm-7pm
- Approximate hours of work requested
- 5.25 hours, including training
- Training
- Tuesday, January 26, 6pm-8pm (Zoom link via Canvas) (includes a 1-hour mandatory work session to prepare for the clinic)
- Skills used
- Client interviewing/counseling; community education/outreach; document preparation; cultural competence; understanding of legal theory and related problem-solving
- Project location
- Virtual
- Number of student volunteers requested
- 18
- Class year preference
- 1L, 2L, 3L, LLM
- Required skills
- Interest in and experience serving LGBTQ, and especially transgender, communities preferred but not required.
- To Apply
- Register at https://gapsp21.eventbrite.com