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2007 Annual Report

TRANSGENDERLAW CENTER

Masen Davis, Executive Director

TLC was formed in 2002 as a project of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, with needs for assistance. TLC has organized more than 400 transgender law workshops to

support from NCLR, Pride Law Fund, and the Echoing Green Foundation. We were help community members, attorneys, government agencies, and social service providers

created to respond to the overwhelming discrimination that transgender people and better understand legal realities for the transgender community, and we have

their families faced in nearly every institution in California. In 2005 TLC became an developed one of the nation’s most complete libraries of individual transgender rights

independent nonprofit organization. From the beginning, TLC provided free and advocacy documents. TLC has also litigated key cases, supported the development

personalized legal information to individuals—helping thousands of community of significant legislation preventing discrimination in employment, public

members and their families better understand how to advocate for themselves and accommodation, and insurance coverage, and engaged in powerful initiatives for

offering more direct legal services and advocacy to hundreds of people with particular institutional change in schools, jails, health care facilities, and more.

Life shrinks or expands according to one’s courage.Anais Nin

I am delighted and proud to have taken the see that we have made significant advances for

leadership of TLC during 2007—an exciting time for community members in numerous arenas—

transgender equality and for LGBT equality more including immigration, education, and economic

broadly. TLC celebrated its fifth year with development—working at both the grassroots and

considerable programmatic success. We provided policy levels.

legal guidance and advice to more than 900 TLC’s successes are the result of many people’s work

transgender people and their families, and direct and support. I especially want to acknowledge the

legal assistance to more than 130 people. We leadership of Chris Daley and Cecilia Chung, who

organized more than 50 workshops to inform and left TLC last year. Their vision and energy launched

assist attorneys and service providers in better and sustained much of this work, built relationships

working with transgender community members. add to my own experience in community activism that have been crucial to TLC’s effectiveness, and

Our Health Care Access Project has increased and fundraising. Together, we are enthusiastic about continually ensured that the organization has been

access to care in Alameda, Los Angeles, and Santa carrying this work forward to make California a positioned to build the transgender community’s

Clara Counties, and is poised to expand further. As state in which all of us can fully and freely express capacity to mobilize for change.

co-counsel, we helped to win an important our gender identities. I know that I have stepped into big shoes, and I was settlement for a transgender former inmate who

We also want to thank all of our community delighted this past year to welcome TLC’s first legal alleged denial of medical care and gender identity

partners, donors, and activist allies for welcoming director, Kristina Wertz, to help me fill them. Kristina harassment in Orange County jail, resulting in a

us into the TLC family and supporting this critical is an outstanding leader with broad expertise as a monetary award to the client and significant policy

work for equality.civil rights litigator. Her legal knowledge and skills reforms at the jail. In the pages that follow, you can

Greetings!Greetings!

A Brief History of TLC

1Transgender Law Center 2007 Annual Report


Kristina Wertz, Legal Director


TLC was formed in 2002 as a project of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, with needs for assistance. TLC has organized more than 400 transgender law workshops to

support from NCLR, Pride Law Fund, and the Echoing Green Foundation. We were help community members, attorneys, government agencies, and social service providers

created to respond to the overwhelming discrimination that transgender people and better understand legal realities for the transgender community, and we have

their families faced in nearly every institution in California. In 2005 TLC became an developed one of the nation’s most complete libraries of individual transgender rights

independent nonprofit organization. From the beginning, TLC provided free and advocacy documents. TLC has also litigated key cases, supported the development

personalized legal information to individuals—helping thousands of community of significant legislation preventing discrimination in employment, public

members and their families better understand how to advocate for themselves and accommodation, and insurance coverage, and engaged in powerful initiatives for

offering more direct legal services and advocacy to hundreds of people with particular institutional change in schools, jails, health care facilities, and more.

Life shrinks or expands according to one’s courage.Anais Nin

I am delighted and proud to have taken the see that we have made significant advances for

leadership of TLC during 2007—an exciting time for community members in numerous arenas—

transgender equality and for LGBT equality more including immigration, education, and economic

broadly. TLC celebrated its fifth year with development—working at both the grassroots and

considerable programmatic success. We provided policy levels.

legal guidance and advice to more than 900 TLC’s successes are the result of many people’s work

transgender people and their families, and direct and support. I especially want to acknowledge the

legal assistance to more than 130 people. We leadership of Chris Daley and Cecilia Chung, who

organized more than 50 workshops to inform and left TLC last year. Their vision and energy launched

assist attorneys and service providers in better and sustained much of this work, built relationships

working with transgender community members. add to my own experience in community activism that have been crucial to TLC’s effectiveness, and

Our Health Care Access Project has increased and fundraising. Together, we are enthusiastic about continually ensured that the organization has been

access to care in Alameda, Los Angeles, and Santa carrying this work forward to make California a positioned to build the transgender community’s

Clara Counties, and is poised to expand further. As state in which all of us can fully and freely express capacity to mobilize for change.

co-counsel, we helped to win an important our gender identities. I know that I have stepped into big shoes, and I was settlement for a transgender former inmate who

We also want to thank all of our community delighted this past year to welcome TLC’s first legal alleged denial of medical care and gender identity

partners, donors, and activist allies for welcoming director, Kristina Wertz, to help me fill them. Kristina harassment in Orange County jail, resulting in a

us into the TLC family and supporting this critical is an outstanding leader with broad expertise as a monetary award to the client and significant policy

work for equality.civil rights litigator. Her legal knowledge and skills reforms at the jail. In the pages that follow, you can

Greetings!Greetings!

A Brief History of TLC



Kristina Wertz, Legal Director

Programs and Accomplishments

They say that time changes things,but you actually have to change them yourself.

Community Legal Services

These programs are designed to help individual

community members address the particular

challenges they are facing. Through our advice and

counsel program, we respond directly to requests

for information and legal assistance. Often, clear

and accurate information is enough to help those

who contact us resolve their problem, but in

approximately 10-15% of cases, we provide

additional legal representation or advocacy. Our

workshops help transgender community members,

their families, and the agencies that serve them to

learn about a wide variety of legal

issues—including identity documents, immigration,

family law, health law, youth and school issues,

police and incarceration, employment, housing,

and public accommodation. We also create and

disseminate publications on state laws affecting the

transgender community.

Transforming Institutions

These programs include targeted initiatives to

challenge systemic discrimination and barriers in a

range of institutions that affect the lives of

transgender community members every day. Our

strategies include community organizing,

litigation, research, public policy development,

institutional advocacy, training key institutional

personnel, and building coalitions and

collaborations. We recognize that the best way to

deal with discrimination is to prevent it from

happening in the first place.

Leadership Development

TLC recognizes that a legal organization is only

one piece of the larger puzzle—and we actively

work to develop the transgender equality

movement throughout California. We helped to

establish the Transgender Equality Alliance in

2006, and we continue to help to organize the

annual Transgender Leadership Summit, as well as

supporting local leadership development and skills-

building in various parts of California through our

Transforming Institutions work.

TLC engages in three major types of work:

Safe Schools

Transitioning the Bar

Safe Bathroom Access

California public schools are obligated by law to protect students from

discrimination and/or harassment on the basis of gender identity, yet

many transgender and gender-nonconforming students continue to face

chronic harassment. TLC and other partners in the California Safe

Schools Coalition organized a California Senate Select Committee

hearing on Transgender School Safety in October 2007. TLC staff and

other community leaders and experts, along with transgender youth

themselves, testified before state senators and more than 50 community

members about the realities faced by transgender youth and the urgent

need for change. TLC and our partners are working to implement the

recommendations from this hearing. TLC also advocated on behalf of

individual students in Fresno, Sacramento, and San Jose.

Ensuring that the legal system, attorneys, and court personnel

understand, respect, and effectively represent transgender people and

their families is a critical part of TLC’s work as a legal organization. In

2007 we were approved as an independent clinical legal education

(CLE) provider by the California State Bar, strengthening our efforts in

this area. We provided training and technical assistance to more than

200 attorneys, including members of the State Bar, private attorneys,

and public interest legal organizations.

TLC’s bathroom advocacy resulted in gender-neutral bathroom facilities

at the San Francisco LGBT Community Center and promoted new

organizing campaigns on Southern California college campuses.

Blayke

Thanks to TLC and GSA Network, genderqueer student Blayke Smith got

to graduate from Clovis High School in style—and in good

conscience—in the spring of 2007. Although the practice is declining,

some high schools in California, like Clovis, require graduating seniors

to wear gender-specific clothing under their gowns at graduation. While

Blayke did not mind being called “she” by teachers and classmates, the

requirement to wear a skirt or a dress didn’t seem right to Blayke, who

felt much more comfortable with the slacks and button-down shirts that

male students were told to wear.

After attempting to advocate directly with school officials, Blayke asked

GSA Network and TLC to intervene. With the support of both of Blayke’s

parents, TLC was able to convince the school that allowing Blayke to

choose the more appropriate style of dress would not be disruptive to

graduation and would ensure that this milestone event would be a joyful

one for all of Blayke’s family. Thanks to strong anti-discrimination

protections and the efforts of students like Blayke, community awareness

is growing, and schools around the state are learning how they can

create safe and supportive environments for all students.Andy Warhol

32Transgender Law Center 2007 Annual Report Transgender Law Center 2007 Annual Report

Protecting Student RightsProtecting Student Rights

Programs and Accomplishments

They say that time changes things,but you actually have to change them yourself.

Community Legal Services

These programs are designed to help individual

community members address the particular

challenges they are facing. Through our advice and

counsel program, we respond directly to requests

for information and legal assistance. Often, clear

and accurate information is enough to help those

who contact us resolve their problem, but in

approximately 10-15% of cases, we provide

additional legal representation or advocacy. Our

workshops help transgender community members,

their families, and the agencies that serve them to

learn about a wide variety of legal

issues—including identity documents, immigration,

family law, health law, youth and school issues,

police and incarceration, employment, housing,

and public accommodation. We also create and

disseminate publications on state laws affecting the

transgender community.

Transforming Institutions

These programs include targeted initiatives to

challenge systemic discrimination and barriers in a

range of institutions that affect the lives of

transgender community members every day. Our

strategies include community organizing,

litigation, research, public policy development,

institutional advocacy, training key institutional

personnel, and building coalitions and

collaborations. We recognize that the best way to

deal with discrimination is to prevent it from

happening in the first place.

Leadership Development

TLC recognizes that a legal organization is only

one piece of the larger puzzle—and we actively

work to develop the transgender equality

movement throughout California. We helped to

establish the Transgender Equality Alliance in

2006, and we continue to help to organize the

annual Transgender Leadership Summit, as well as

supporting local leadership development and skills-

building in various parts of California through our

Transforming Institutions work.

TLC engages in three major types of work:

Safe Schools

Transitioning the Bar

Safe Bathroom Access

California public schools are obligated by law to protect students from

discrimination and/or harassment on the basis of gender identity, yet

many transgender and gender-nonconforming students continue to face

chronic harassment. TLC and other partners in the California Safe

Schools Coalition organized a California Senate Select Committee

hearing on Transgender School Safety in October 2007. TLC staff and

other community leaders and experts, along with transgender youth

themselves, testified before state senators and more than 50 community

members about the realities faced by transgender youth and the urgent

need for change. TLC and our partners are working to implement the

recommendations from this hearing. TLC also advocated on behalf of

individual students in Fresno, Sacramento, and San Jose.

Ensuring that the legal system, attorneys, and court personnel

understand, respect, and effectively represent transgender people and

their families is a critical part of TLC’s work as a legal organization. In

2007 we were approved as an independent clinical legal education

(CLE) provider by the California State Bar, strengthening our efforts in

this area. We provided training and technical assistance to more than

200 attorneys, including members of the State Bar, private attorneys,

and public interest legal organizations.

TLC’s bathroom advocacy resulted in gender-neutral bathroom facilities

at the San Francisco LGBT Community Center and promoted new

organizing campaigns on Southern California college campuses.

Blayke

Thanks to TLC and GSA Network, genderqueer student Blayke Smith got

to graduate from Clovis High School in style—and in good

conscience—in the spring of 2007. Although the practice is declining,

some high schools in California, like Clovis, require graduating seniors

to wear gender-specific clothing under their gowns at graduation. While

Blayke did not mind being called “she” by teachers and classmates, the

requirement to wear a skirt or a dress didn’t seem right to Blayke, who

felt much more comfortable with the slacks and button-down shirts that

male students were told to wear.

After attempting to advocate directly with school officials, Blayke asked

GSA Network and TLC to intervene. With the support of both of Blayke’s

parents, TLC was able to convince the school that allowing Blayke to

choose the more appropriate style of dress would not be disruptive to

graduation and would ensure that this milestone event would be a joyful

one for all of Blayke’s family. Thanks to strong anti-discrimination

protections and the efforts of students like Blayke, community awareness

is growing, and schools around the state are learning how they can

create safe and supportive environments for all students.Andy Warhol


Protecting Student RightsProtecting Student Rights

Funding for Economic Empowerment

Challenging Employment Discrimination

Securing Asylum for Immigrants

Unemployment, under-employment, and employment discrimination are

critical issues for the transgender community. Using data from our

groundbreaking Good Jobs NOW! report (2006), TLC worked with the San

Francisco LGBT Center and Jewish Community Services to advocate for and

ultimately secure nearly $600,000 in public funding to support our

collaborative Transgender Economic Empowerment Initiative. TEEI provides

critical services to assist transgender job seekers and transform the local

employment climate. Building on this success, we launched a three-year

campaign to secure public funding for transgender workforce development

programs throughout California.

TLC took a leadership role in building LGBT community consensus in favor of

inclusion of gender identity protection in the Employment Non-Discrimination

Act (ENDA)—with 300 organizations ultimately advocating for such inclusion.

Working closely with San Francisco community members, we organized a 24-

hour vigil in front of Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi’s

office, and met with her to make clear our community’s need for employment

protections. We also helped mobilize a statewide response and trained

community members to educate their elected officials on transgender issues.

We continue to fight for gender identity protection and inclusion at the federal

level.

Transgender immigrants often face particular barriers to regularizing their

legal status in the U.S., requiring special legal knowledge and experience. In

2007, we were very pleased that asylum was granted to two of our long-term

clients.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Isabel

Los Angeles resident Isabel Armengol came to the U.S. in 1987 to

find a place where she could safely be herself. In her home country,

she had endured beatings by her family, social ostracism, and

sexual assault. Other transgender youth she knew had similar

experiences of violence. When a transgender friend was murdered

after being picked up by the police, Isabel decided that she had to

flee. After nearly 20 years of living below the radar in this country,

she came in contact with TLC and realized that despite restrictive

laws, she had a chance of winning asylum, although it would not

be easy. Inspired by her courage and faith, TLC represented her

throughout the legal process, and she was granted asylum in the

summer of 2007.

Asylum Victory!Asylum Victory!

Expanding Recognition of GenderExpanding Recognition of GenderJoanna

A life coach with the University of California at San Francisco, Joanna

was diagnosed in 2003 with end stage liver disease. Because her

condition makes any kind of surgery very risky, she was told that she

was not a candidate for transition-related surgery.

Early in 2007, she asked TLC for help in securing a court order

recognizing her gender so that if her illness claimed her life she could

be guaranteed that her female identity would be respected. While

California law authorizes legal change of gender through court orders

for people who have had transition-related surgery, it does not address

people who are medically unable to have surgery.

Working with TLC Staff Attorney Ben Lunine and Legal Director Kristina

Wertz, Joanna filed a petition with the court explaining her situation

and asking for a change of gender order even though surgery had not

been part of her transition. In late October, the court agreed with our

reasoning and issued Joanna’s order. Now, Joanna can focus her

energy on overcoming her illness without concern that her identity will

be disrespected if anything happens to her.


Health Care Access

Safety for Transgender Inmates

Community Legal Services – By the Numbers

TLC’s Health Care Access Program (HCAP) has used outreach, community

empowerment, advocacy, training, and work with community health care

providers to increase opportunities for transgender community members to

access culturally- and medically-competent care. Our work in Alameda,

Los Angeles and Santa Clara counties has resulted in stronger relationships

between community members and local clinics, and we have secured

funding to expand this work to five additional counties. We created “How

to Start a Transgender Clinic,” an easy-to-use guide for health care

providers to increase services to the transgender community. We have also

been keenly focused on developing plans to ensure better implementation

of AB 1586, a California law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of

gender identity in insurance coverage, and we continue to advocate to

employers, insurers, and officials for inclusive insurance policies.

Transgender prisoners in California and across the U.S. are at high risk for

abuse and denial of medical care. Working as co-counsel with the San

Diego law firm Stock Stephens, LLP, TLC helped to secure a settlement in the

case of John Doe, who alleged denial of medical care and gender identity

harassment while in the Orange County Jail. The settlement includes

changes in jail policies regarding provision of hormones to transgender

inmates and training for medical and corrections staff.

In 2007, we provided free legal information and advice to more than 900

transgender community members, their families, attorneys, and service

providers. Our direct legal assistance supported 130 community members

in the preparation and filing of petitions for a change of name and gender,

addressing employment discrimination, securing medical care, fighting for

asylum, securing parental custody, and other matters. We organized more

than 50 transgender law workshops and trainings, reaching more than

1,500 people. We also created, updated, and/or disseminated legal

publications addressing issues such as employee and tenant rights, asylum,

Medi-Cal, and ID change.

Funding for Economic Empowerment

Challenging Employment Discrimination

Securing Asylum for Immigrants

Unemployment, under-employment, and employment discrimination are

critical issues for the transgender community. Using data from our

groundbreaking Good Jobs NOW! report (2006), TLC worked with the San

Francisco LGBT Center and Jewish Community Services to advocate for and

ultimately secure nearly $600,000 in public funding to support our

collaborative Transgender Economic Empowerment Initiative. TEEI provides

critical services to assist transgender job seekers and transform the local

employment climate. Building on this success, we launched a three-year

campaign to secure public funding for transgender workforce development

programs throughout California.

TLC took a leadership role in building LGBT community consensus in favor of

inclusion of gender identity protection in the Employment Non-Discrimination

Act (ENDA)—with 300 organizations ultimately advocating for such inclusion.

Working closely with San Francisco community members, we organized a 24-

hour vigil in front of Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi’s

office, and met with her to make clear our community’s need for employment

protections. We also helped mobilize a statewide response and trained

community members to educate their elected officials on transgender issues.

We continue to fight for gender identity protection and inclusion at the federal

level.

Transgender immigrants often face particular barriers to regularizing their

legal status in the U.S., requiring special legal knowledge and experience. In

2007, we were very pleased that asylum was granted to two of our long-term

clients.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Isabel

Los Angeles resident Isabel Armengol came to the U.S. in 1987 to

find a place where she could safely be herself. In her home country,

she had endured beatings by her family, social ostracism, and

sexual assault. Other transgender youth she knew had similar

experiences of violence. When a transgender friend was murdered

after being picked up by the police, Isabel decided that she had to

flee. After nearly 20 years of living below the radar in this country,

she came in contact with TLC and realized that despite restrictive

laws, she had a chance of winning asylum, although it would not

be easy. Inspired by her courage and faith, TLC represented her

throughout the legal process, and she was granted asylum in the

summer of 2007.

Asylum Victory!Asylum Victory!

Expanding Recognition of GenderExpanding Recognition of GenderJoanna

A life coach with the University of California at San Francisco, Joanna

was diagnosed in 2003 with end stage liver disease. Because her

condition makes any kind of surgery very risky, she was told that she

was not a candidate for transition-related surgery.

Early in 2007, she asked TLC for help in securing a court order

recognizing her gender so that if her illness claimed her life she could

be guaranteed that her female identity would be respected. While

California law authorizes legal change of gender through court orders

for people who have had transition-related surgery, it does not address

people who are medically unable to have surgery.

Working with TLC Staff Attorney Ben Lunine and Legal Director Kristina

Wertz, Joanna filed a petition with the court explaining her situation

and asking for a change of gender order even though surgery had not

been part of her transition. In late October, the court agreed with our

reasoning and issued Joanna’s order. Now, Joanna can focus her

energy on overcoming her illness without concern that her identity will

be disrespected if anything happens to her.


Health Care Access

Safety for Transgender Inmates

Community Legal Services – By the Numbers

TLC’s Health Care Access Program (HCAP) has used outreach, community

empowerment, advocacy, training, and work with community health care

providers to increase opportunities for transgender community members to

access culturally- and medically-competent care. Our work in Alameda,

Los Angeles and Santa Clara counties has resulted in stronger relationships

between community members and local clinics, and we have secured

funding to expand this work to five additional counties. We created “How

to Start a Transgender Clinic,” an easy-to-use guide for health care

providers to increase services to the transgender community. We have also

been keenly focused on developing plans to ensure better implementation

of AB 1586, a California law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of

gender identity in insurance coverage, and we continue to advocate to

employers, insurers, and officials for inclusive insurance policies.

Transgender prisoners in California and across the U.S. are at high risk for

abuse and denial of medical care. Working as co-counsel with the San

Diego law firm Stock Stephens, LLP, TLC helped to secure a settlement in the

case of John Doe, who alleged denial of medical care and gender identity

harassment while in the Orange County Jail. The settlement includes

changes in jail policies regarding provision of hormones to transgender

inmates and training for medical and corrections staff.

In 2007, we provided free legal information and advice to more than 900

transgender community members, their families, attorneys, and service

providers. Our direct legal assistance supported 130 community members

in the preparation and filing of petitions for a change of name and gender,

addressing employment discrimination, securing medical care, fighting for

asylum, securing parental custody, and other matters. We organized more

than 50 transgender law workshops and trainings, reaching more than

1,500 people. We also created, updated, and/or disseminated legal

publications addressing issues such as employee and tenant rights, asylum,

Medi-Cal, and ID change.

Unrestricted Temporarily Restricted Total

PUBLIC SUPPORT AND REVENUE

Individuals $28,811 - $28,811

Corporate Support $18,291 - $18,291

Foundation Grants $177,570 $146,100 323,670

Net assets released from restrictions (139,338) -

Total public support $364,010 $6,762 $370,772

Revenue:

Event income $21,582 - $21,582

Program service revenue $20,391 - $20,391

Interest income $7,434 - $7,434

Total revenue $49,407 - $49,407

Total public support & revenue $413,417 $6,762 $420,179

EXPENSES

Programs & Services $269,777 - $269,777

Management & General $48,199 - $48,199

Fundraising $41,701 - $41,701

Total expenses $359,677 - $359,677

INCREASE IN NET ASSETS $53,740 $6,762 $60,502

NETS ASSETS, BEGINNING OF YEAR $114,944 $270,512 $385,456

NET ASSETS, END OF YEAR $ 168,684 $277,274 $445,958

Financial StatementStatement of Activities

For the year ending December 31, 2007Please contact TLC for a complete financial statement

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pe w ar en e n a st pe w ar ga d

ople ho e transg der d tha gain ople ho e y an

niza e e ine g- m ca eff ts, a w

orga tions to nsur susta d, lon ter advo cy or nd e

i n " .. [ oc f tr sge r sion nd

lesb a ; " . they adv ates or an nde inclu ] te to talk

n t ee e r of r an org ti ns

eed o nsure that th l ade ship ou LGBT d allied aniza o

e siv a er a .. do av ." W es

xces ely to e ch oth ;" nd " .they not h e allies hile th e

l de ep se s o e r sg er mmu . L t r

inc u s r re ntative f th t an end co nity egisla o s,

i ts a d ble do o s t of r ma or N A

po n re ebata , they pr vide a or a oad p f E D

o f , a om u ad s mith nsg er o

f icials nd c m nity le er ust interact w tra end pe ple as

activists.

e r r th nk f s a gu bs r t, d ot

pe rs, athe than i ing o us a va e, a t ac istant " her."

B l l ancui ding a li es

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ean hile, e n d to c str t new network t at f ili te

w ho t p n n D

t stan

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mm t n a olla a io e d c ivate ime

co unica io nd c bor t n to r spon effe t ely to h cr s

e h a nif coa

allian wr o

tog t er s a u ied mmunity nd create ces ith othe gr ups

cid f m n as ell a d t s. mu

and in ents o discri i ation w s policy eba e We st build

mov nts. e nite D a giv s a d s t an

and eme Th U d EN A c mpaign es u goo tar d ur p

em r s gie nt l c v ts

o ca acity to ploy c eative trate s to wi incremen a i il righ

ome on ic il . da f n ce at

s thing wh h to bu d Within ys o the a noun ment th

nc v s w a ate r inc EN su s nc ea

adva es e en a e dvoc fo an lusive DA, ch a i r sed

gr sion e w e sid g r ing de en i y

con es al lead rs er con erin st ipp gen r id t t from

n a t te l cs to ote ins r ce

litigatio nd s a and o al statute pr ct aga t wo kpla

EN A at le 0 ation mmitted elv t f

D , ast 35 organiz s co thems es to s ruggle or

m ndiscri i ation.

t n h ouur tir mm . i co

f

legisla io t at w ld protect o en e co unity Th s alition o

n legic a l

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org t nsf h c e es im i n tr ge

aniza io , most o w i h r pr ent pr ar ly on- ans nder

ns itu s –ian xua e str t – str

co t encie gay, lesb , bise l and ven aigh demon atedur e es es n gr s n t h o nd r r G

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tha ea c r r c ou G c nity e i the

t ben th the ommon heto i ab t an L BT ommu , th re s a v d h a lie xc u of nd ide r ivil r

cti ists an t eir l s that e l sion ge er ntity f om c ights

ea ty i t n. ne e d th s e o sup t b

r lity of solidari n ac io We ed to xpan i bas f por y ti n s c ble c t be pe . lth Ba A e

legisla o i not a cepta and anno re ated A ough y r a

a in en ing ti l a ie r ar c v ts a oc

educ t g and gag poten a ll s f om v ious i il righ nd s ial r r ntat ve ve c ha d BT qu , a w e

ep ese i s ha histori ally c mpione LG e ality m ny er

t e me t to ml sb nd org t ns

jus ic move nts, no ention e ian a gay aniza io andar the m o f sion

ed em o y n

f from cha pi ns o inclu that we ne ed th t be. The eed

n ty m rve t ye n the o c

commu i embe s who ha no t joi ed gr wing oalition. to r u t.

hea abo t i

Te li stl ng our ories

ost o a l, mt a xte b of l ar t,

But m f l we ust nur ure nd e nd the onds so id ity tha

f ie hinin e n c o ea N em ha te

or a br f s g mom nt i O t ber and rly ov ber, l d the

t r u e r or d me r Cn

We mus edo bl ou eff ts to e ucate mbe s of ongress a d the

ge au div s olit s n t ck

jug rn t of i ive p ic i i s tra s.

ma n a l a e r lit ond liv T n a

i stre m pub ic bout th ea y f transge er es. his ca t ke

2 0November 2, 20 7

do e What w do now?

By MASEN DAVIS

14%

11%

75%

Programs & Services

Management & General

Fundraising

2007 Expenses


Unrestricted Temporarily Restricted Total

PUBLIC SUPPORT AND REVENUE

Individuals $28,811 - $28,811

Corporate Support $18,291 - $18,291

Foundation Grants $177,570 $146,100 323,670

Net assets released from restrictions (139,338) -

Total public support $364,010 $6,762 $370,772

Revenue:

Event income $21,582 - $21,582

Program service revenue $20,391 - $20,391

Interest income $7,434 - $7,434

Total revenue $49,407 - $49,407

Total public support & revenue $413,417 $6,762 $420,179

EXPENSES

Programs & Services $269,777 - $269,777

Management & General $48,199 - $48,199

Fundraising $41,701 - $41,701

Total expenses $359,677 - $359,677

INCREASE IN NET ASSETS $53,740 $6,762 $60,502

NETS ASSETS, BEGINNING OF YEAR $114,944 $270,512 $385,456

NET ASSETS, END OF YEAR $ 168,684 $277,274 $445,958

Financial StatementStatement of Activities

For the year ending December 31, 2007Please contact TLC for a complete financial statement

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ourney tow rd fully n lusive E DA. How can we b il on the unity

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2 0November 2, 20 7

oWhat d we do now?

By MASEN DAVIS

14%

11%

75%

Programs & Services

Management & General

Fundraising

2007 Expenses


Thank you to all of the former

staff and project consultants who

helped make TLC’s work possible

in 2007, especially our visionary

founder Chris Daley, the

fabulous Cecilia Chung, Danielle

Lopez, Andy Burgos, Patricia

Kevena Fili, Tiffany Woods, Chris

Roebuck, and Jamison Green.

Board of Directors

Lisa DummerChair

Shane CayaVice-Chair

Justin LouieTreasurer

Dragonsani RenteriaSecretary

Susan Christian

Alex Cleghorn

Victoria Kolakowski

Allison Laureano

Individual Supporters

Staff & Consultants

Jennie BrickAccountant

Masen DavisExecutive Director

Ben LunineStaff Attorney

Leslie MinotGrantwriter

Mila PavlinOperations Manager

Alexis RiveraSouthern California Organizer

Stefanie SchurCommunications Consultant

Kristina WertzLegal Director

American Civil Liberties Union, Out & Equal

Pink MagazineNorthern CaliforniaRosen Bien & Galvan LLPAsian & Pacific IslanderSchwab Charitable FundWellness Center

SF PrideAsiaSFWilson Sonsini Goodrich & Equality California Institute

Rosati FoundationFirst American Title CompanyYoung’s Market Company and GLOSS MagazineThe Estates GroupLatham & Watkins LLP

Law Offices of Lenore Rae

Shefman

Lyon Martin Health Services

Medjool

Minami Tamaki LLP

Moonstar Catering Services

Morrison & Foerster LLP

National Center for Lesbian

Rights

Northrop Grumman

Corporation

Corporate Sponsors

Champions of JusticeTLC is grateful to the almost 50 sustaining donors who give monthly to help TLC throughout the year.

PeoplePeopleFounder’s CircleThank you to all of our donors, including the 110 + individuals and agencies who contributed $100 or more in 2007.

Foundations

Arcus Foundation

Ben & Jerry's Foundation

Evelyn & Walter Haas Jr. Fund

Funding Exchange

Gill Foundation

Horizons Foundation

Open Society Institute

Bob A. Ross Foundation

The David Bohnett Foundation

The California Endowment

The California Wellness

Foundation

The San Francisco Foundation

The Small Change Foundation

The Women's Foundation of

California

Tides Foundation, State

Equality Fund & Kicking

Assets Fund

Van Löben Sels/RembeRock

Foundation

Henry David Thoreau

If you advance confidently in

the direction of your dreams,

and endeavor to live the life

you have imagined, you will

meet with a success

unexpected in common

hours. You will pass an

invisible boundary: new,

universal and more liberal

laws will begin to establish

themselves around you and

within you, and you will live

with the license of a higher

order of beings.

“As a long-time activist and veteran, I understand the need to foster the next

generation of leaders in the movement for transgender equality. That’s why I am

a member of the Transgender Equality Alliance and a long-time donor to TLC. I

love TLC and the organization’s agenda for transgender equality. TLC continues to

grow as a wonderful organization with good people and effective methods that

produces lasting results for our community.”

Autumn Sandeen

Internet Media and Community Activist







Autumn Sandeen


“ Transgender and gender non-conforming youth are often targets of harassment

and violence. The advocacy and technical assistance that TLC attorneys

provide—to students, teachers, and organizations alike—are critical complements

to Carolyn's work with the GSA Network.”

Carolyn Laub and Heather Toomy

Founder and Executive Director Gay-Straight Alliance Network







“TLC has been an excellent resource to me as an attorney working with

transgender persons through various legal issues. In addition, TLC has been

incredibly helpful to me personally through participation in its educational and

enriching annual Leadership Conferences. Attendance at the conferences created

an opportunity whereby I am now a partner with TLC as we work to achieve

transgender health benefits equality. . . . I encourage anyone interested in civil

rights, especially for the transgender community, to fully support TLC and the

excellent work they do.”

Douglas J. Heumann, Attorney-at-Law










“I support TLC because I believe that organizations like TLC pave the way for the

transgender community to realize our full potential, create awareness within and

to other communities, and give the transgender community empowerment in their

daily lives!”

Tita Aida

Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center/SF Pride Committee




daily lives!”

Tita Aida



Thank you to all of the former

staff and project consultants who

helped make TLC’s work possible

in 2007, especially our visionary

founder Chris Daley, the

fabulous Cecilia Chung, Danielle

Lopez, Andy Burgos, Patricia

Kevena Fili, Tiffany Woods, Chris

Roebuck, and Jamison Green.

Board of Directors

Lisa DummerChair

Shane CayaVice-Chair

Justin LouieTreasurer

Dragonsani RenteriaSecretary

Susan Christian

Alex Cleghorn

Victoria Kolakowski

Allison Laureano

Individual Supporters

Staff & Consultants

Jennie BrickAccountant

Masen DavisExecutive Director

Ben LunineStaff Attorney

Leslie MinotGrantwriter

Mila PavlinOperations Manager

Alexis RiveraSouthern California Organizer

Stefanie SchurCommunications Consultant

Kristina WertzLegal Director

American Civil Liberties Union, Out & Equal

Pink MagazineNorthern CaliforniaRosen Bien & Galvan LLPAsian & Pacific IslanderSchwab Charitable FundWellness Center

SF PrideAsiaSFWilson Sonsini Goodrich & Equality California Institute

Rosati FoundationFirst American Title CompanyYoung’s Market Company and GLOSS MagazineThe Estates GroupLatham & Watkins LLP

Law Offices of Lenore Rae

Shefman

Lyon Martin Health Services

Medjool

Minami Tamaki LLP

Moonstar Catering Services

Morrison & Foerster LLP

National Center for Lesbian

Rights

Northrop Grumman

Corporation

Corporate Sponsors

Champions of JusticeTLC is grateful to the almost 50 sustaining donors who give monthly to help TLC throughout the year.

PeoplePeopleFounder’s CircleThank you to all of our donors, including the 110 + individuals and agencies who contributed $100 or more in 2007.

Foundations

Arcus Foundation

Ben & Jerry's Foundation

Evelyn & Walter Haas Jr. Fund

Funding Exchange

Gill Foundation

Horizons Foundation

Open Society Institute

Bob A. Ross Foundation

The David Bohnett Foundation

The California Endowment

The California Wellness

Foundation

The San Francisco Foundation

The Small Change Foundation

The Women's Foundation of

California

Tides Foundation, State

Equality Fund & Kicking

Assets Fund

Van Löben Sels/RembeRock

Foundation

Henry David Thoreau

If you advance confidently in

the direction of your dreams,

and endeavor to live the life

you have imagined, you will

meet with a success

unexpected in common

hours. You will pass an

invisible boundary: new,

universal and more liberal

laws will begin to establish

themselves around you and

within you, and you will live

with the license of a higher

order of beings.







Autumn Sandeen








Autumn Sandeen



































daily lives!”

Tita Aida





daily lives!”

Tita Aida



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