Students will meet with transgender individuals who are seeking to legally change their name and gender marker on basic forms of identification. Students will review previously-prepared petitions for name and gender marker change with the applicants and finalize those petitions. Students will prepare affidavits of inability to pay court filing costs for eligible applicants. Student will prepare applications to conform applicants’ driver’s licenses, social security records, and birth certificates to the provisions of the name and gender marker correction order.
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
Saturday, November 11
- Project Time
- 10:30am-2:00pm
- Approximate hours of work requested
- 3.5 hours, including training
- Training
- Students will be trained in the first 30 minutes of the exit session
- Skills used
- Document preparation/review, direct communication
- Project location
- Travis County Law Library, 314 W. 11th Street
- Number of student volunteers requested
- 18
- Class year preference
- 1L, 2L, 3L, LLM
- To Apply
- Submit email stating interest to Sarah Sedgwick at ssedgwick@law.utexas.edu