Students will meet with transgender individuals who are seeking to legally modify 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 modification. 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 7
- Project Time
- 5:30pm-8:30pm
- Approximate hours of work requested
- 7 hours, including training
- Training
- Monday, October 3, 6pm-8pm (TNH 2.123); returning volunteers who worked at an intake session in the 2015-16 academic year are not required to attend the training
- 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
- Address
- 727 E. Dean Keeton Street, Austin, TX 78705
- 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
- Submit email stating interest to Sarah Sedgwick at ssedgwick@law.utexas.edu