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
Friday, November 18
- Project Time
- 5:00pm-8:00pm
- Approximate hours of work requested
- 3 hours, including training
- Training
- A 30-minute training session will be held on Friday, November 18 at 5:00pm, immediately before the clinic
- Skills used
- Client interviewing/counseling; community education/outreach; document preparation; cultural competence
- 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