Students will meet with transgender individuals who are seeking to correct or update their legal 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. This clinic will focus on serving the trans community of the Rio Grande Valley and El Paso, as well as other border regions.
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. The Mithoff Program is hosting the January GAP Clinic with Texas RioGrande Legal Aid (TRLA). TRLA provides free civil legal services to low-income residents in 68 Southwest Texas counties, and represents migrant and seasonal farm workers throughout the state and in six other southern states. TRLA also operates public defender programs that serve 10 Texas counties, representing low-income people accused of felonies, misdemeanors, and juvenile crimes in state court. TRLA is the third largest legal services provider in the nation and the largest in the state of Texas. TRLA serves approximately 23,000 clients each year.
Project Details
- Website
- https://law.utexas.edu/probono/projects/special-projects/trans-legal-name-gender-marker-project/
- Project Date
Friday, January 22
- Project Time
- 1:45pm-5pm
- Approximate hours of work requested
- 5.75 hours, including training
- Training
- Tuesday, January 19, 3:30pm-6pm; the January 19 event is a training and work session and is mandatory for all volunteers
- 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
- 40
- 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://gappbj21.eventbrite.com