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.
Project Details
- Project Date
Thursday, February 20
- Project Time
- 4:30pm-8:30pm
- Approximate hours of work requested
- 5.5 hours, including training
- Training
- Monday, February 17, 5:45pm-7:45pm (TNH 2.123); returning volunteers who worked at a previous GAP clinic during the 2019-2020 school year are not required to attend training but are encouraged to do so
- Skills used
- Client interviewing/counseling; community education/outreach; document preparation; cultural competence; understanding of legal theory and related problem-solving
- Project location
- Travis County Law Library, 314 W. 11th Street
- 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://gapsp20.eventbrite.com