Transgender Law Center

Connect transgender individuals and their families.

Overview

The Transgender Law Center (TLC) is a civil rights organization advocating for transgender communities. It connects transgender people and their families to technically sound and culturally competent legal services increases acceptance and enforcement of laws and policies that support California's transgender communities and works to change laws and systems that fail to incorporate the needs and experiences of transgender people. TLC utilizes direct legal services public policy advocacy and educational opportunities to advance the rights and safety of diverse transgender communities. TLC uses the term transgender to represent all of the innumerable genders and forms of gender expression that fall within and outside of stereotypical gender norms. TLC also understands acknowledges and resists non gender based oppressions that limit people's abilities to live in peace.