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 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 March 4
- Project Time
- 5:15pm-8:15pm
- Approximate hours of work requested
- 7 hours, including training
- Training
- Wednesday, March 2, 6pm-8pm (TNH 2.123); returning volunteers who worked at the fall informational and intake session 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
- Community Engagement Center, UT Division of Diversity and Community Engagement, 1009 E. 11th St.
- Address
- 727 E. Dean Keeton Street, Austin, TX 78705
- Number of student volunteers requested
- 14
- 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