Students will meet with transgender individuals who are seeking to legally change their name and gender marker on basic forms of identification. Students will collect information and documents from individuals and explain the name and gender marker change process. After the intake session, students will draft the petition and order for name and gender marker change from a template with instructions. Students also will be invited to participate as volunteers at the exit session (date TBD), where clients will receive petitions, orders, and guidance on their hearings.
Organization
Trans Name and Gender Marker Project, Mithoff Pro Bono Program
The Trans Name and Gender Marker Project is a student-led internal project of the Richard and Ginni Mithoff Pro Bono Program in partnership with OUTLaw.
Project Details
- Website
- http://www.law.utexas.edu/probono/projects/special-projects/trans-legal-name-gender-marker-project/
- Project Date
Friday October 16
- Project Time
- 5:00pm-8:00pm
- Approximate hours of work requested
- 7 hours, including training
- Training
- Monday October 5, 5pm-7pm in TNH 2.124
- Skills used
- Client interviewing/counseling; community education/outreach; document preparation; cultural competence
- Project location
- The Q Austin, 2906 Medical Arts, community center within walking distance (3 minutes) of law school
- Address
- 727 E. Dean Keeton Street, Austin, TX 78705
- Number of student volunteers requested
- 20
- 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
- Submit email stating interest to Sarah Sedgwick at ssedgwick@law.utexas.edu; if interested but cannot attend either the October 16 session or the training, please indicate for which sessions you will be unavailable.