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Join SONG for a CALL APRIL 12th at 8PM EST to discuss how we can fight back South Carolina S.1203. To register for the call click HERE. Feel free to forward this email to friends and family as well!!!…

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TLC@SONG is a new form of national collaboration, combining Transgender Law Center’s policy advocacy and litigation expertise with SONG’s leadership and grassroots organizing prowess to create a better reality for our Southern communities. We are so excited to have Asa …

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The announcement that Durham Police Chief José Lopez is being forced into retirement, while a clear response to community pressure, will not be enough to address the broken trust between the Durham Police Department and the community. To be sure,…

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“A guidance document cannot be expected to change the fact that DHS and ICE have consistently failed at maintaining a minimum of safety and dignity for transgender immigrants. Transgender immigrants and other vulnerable populations, including mothers with their children and…

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  Together with the Transgender Law Center we are hiring a full-time staff attorney for TLC@SONG. We are looking for a highly skilled, articulate, experienced, and motivated lawyer. With the Southern Regional Director, the Staff Attorney will help lead the…

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So far this year, we’ve lost at least 16 people to transphobic murder and those are just the ones that we know about. Statistics like these can be daunting, can haunt us, and can be perplexing in a moment when…

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5DBrqui8zQ Check out SONG member Barbra Perez’s interview with Fusion about how transgender detainees are treated in immigration detention. You can check out the six-month investigative report Fusion did at http://interactive.fusion.net/trans/ where they found that 1 out of every 5…

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SONG is recognizing its inheritance from the life of Leslie Feinberg who died recently.  Who among us LGBTQ people has not felt more freedom and a larger world from reading Stone Butch Blues?  In the journey of SONG, s/he was…