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  1. Commonwealth vs. Palmer, William C

     
    Collection: Court and Legal Documents
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Lynch, Adrienne C.
    Date: Jan. 4, 1996
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Black transgender people, LGBTQ+ bars, LGBTQ+ people who use substances recreationally, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Sex work, Trans women, Trials (Murder)--Massachusetts
    Subject: Adrienne Lynch, Chanelle Pickett, Gabrielle Pickett, Jacque's, Playland Cafe, William C. Palmer
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to transphobic violence.
  2. Transsexual "Winner" in Custody Dispute

     
    Collection: Court and Legal Documents
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Lesbian/Gay Law Notes
    Date: Sep. 1996
    Topics: MtFs, Trans women, Transgender parents, Transsexual people
    Description: Details a case involving an MTF parent who was denied visitation rights and had custody agreements changed following their sex-change surgery.
  3. Missouri Court of Appeals Refuses To Deny Visitation To Cross-Dressing Father

     
    Collection: Court and Legal Documents
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Lesbian/Gay Law Notes
    Date: 1995
    Topics: Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Homosexuality, Queer parents
    Description: Details the case P.L. W. v. T. R. W.,1994 WL 723743, in which a parent was denied visitation rights due to the fact that they were a crossdresser.
  4. N.Y. Court Rules Discrimination Against Transsexual is Sex Discrimination

     
    Collection: Court and Legal Documents
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Lesbian/Gay Law Notes
    Date: 1995
    Topics: FtMs, Gender affirming surgery, Gender identity disorder, Legal name change, LGBTQ+ discrimination, Transsexuality
    Subject: Daniel Maffei
    Description: Excerpt from Lesbian/Gay Law Notes 1995 containing the article "N.Y. Court Rules Discrimination Against Transsexual is Sex Discrimination."
  5. NJ Appeals Court Approves Transsexual Name Change

     
    Collection: Court and Legal Documents
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Lesbian/Gay Law Notes
    Date: 1991
    Topics: Gender dysphoria, Legal name change, MtFs, Transsexual people
    Subject: Tina Lindsay
    Description: A record of the case of John William Eck (deadname), involving an MTF individual diagnosed with gender dysphoria who was attempting to legally change her name.
  6. Transsexual Can Use Fictional Name In Suit to Receive Insurance Reimbursement For Operations

     
    Collection: Court and Legal Documents
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Lesbian/Gay Law Notes
    Date: 1992
    Topics: Gender affirming surgery, Legal name, Medical care, Transsexual people
    Description: A record of the case Doe vs. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island, which involves a transsexual individual who lost the endorsement of insurance carriers in receiving gender-affirming care.
  7. Washington State Appeals Court Requires Boeing to Accommodate a Transsexual

     
    Collection: Court and Legal Documents
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Lesbian/Gay Law Notes
    Date: 1992
    Topics: Anti-transgender discrimination, Crossdressing, Gender dysphoria, Transfeminine people, Transgender people in the workplace
    Description: A record of the case Doe v. The Boeing Company, which involves an employee for Boeing who sued for discrimination faced upon transitioning.
  8. Federal Court In New York Rules on Request For Preoperative Transsexual To Receive Treatment

     
    Collection: Court and Legal Documents
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Lesbian/Gay Law Notes
    Date: 1993
    Topics: Gender dysphoria, Medical care, MtFs, Transsexual people
    Subject: Cuoco
    Description: A record of the case Cuoco vs. Quinlan, involving an incarcerated MtF individual who was denied access to medical care for their gender dysphoria.
  9. Transsexual Railroad Worker Loses Discrimination Case

     
    Collection: Court and Legal Documents
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Lesbian/Gay Law Notes
    Date: 1994
    Topics: Anti-transgender discrimination, Transgender disabled people, Transsexuality
    Subject: Andria Dobre
    Description: A record of the case Dobre v. National Railroad Passenger Corp., which involves Andria Dobre, who was hired by AMTRAK prior to transitioning, and discriminated against upon transitioning.
  10. No Liability in Transsexual Inmate's Assault Unless Officials Were Subjectively Reckless

     
    Collection: Court and Legal Documents
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Lesbian/Gay Law Notes
    Date: 1994
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Black transgender people, LGBTQ+ prisoners, Sexual violence, Trans women, Transsexual people
    Subject: Dee Farmer
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive content related to sexual assault and rape.
  11. Federal District Court Rules on Transsexual Treatment Rights in Prison

     
    Collection: Court and Legal Documents
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Lesbian/Gay Law Notes
    Date: Mar. 9, 1998
    Topics: Black transgender people, Gender dysphoria, LGBTQ+ prisoners, Medical care, Trans women, Transitioning (Gender), Transsexual people
    Subject: Dee Farmer
    Description: A record detailing the case of Dee Farmer, a trans woman incarcerated in a federal prison who sued for access to proper medical treatment for gender dysphoria.
  12. Pennsylvania Court Grants Name-Change to Preoperative Transsexual

     
    Collection: Court and Legal Documents
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Lesbian/Gay Law Notes
    Date: Feb. 3, 1998
    Topics: Legal name change, Transfeminine people, Transsexuality
    Subject: Lisa Harris
    Description: A record detailing the case of Lisa Harris, a transsexual individual who was able to change her legal name despite not yet having medically transitioned.
  13. 7th Circuit Rules Prison Not Required to Provide Treatment for Gender Dysphoria

     
    Collection: Court and Legal Documents
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Lesbian/Gay Law Notes
    Date: Jan. 1998
    Topics: Bottom surgery, Estrogen, Gender dysphoria, LGBTQ+ prisoners, Medicaid, Medical care, Medicare, Trans women, Transsexual people, Transsexualism
    Subject: Tasha Maggert
    Description: Content warning: This item contains homophobic language.
  14. Sexual Harassment Against Transsexual Covered by Title IX

     
    Collection: Court and Legal Documents
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Lesbian/Gay Law Notes
    Date: Nov. 1997
    Topics: Gender affirming surgery, Hormones, MtFs, Sexual harassment, Transsexual people, Transsexualism
    Subject: Jennifer Miles
    Description: This item discusses the case Miles v. New York University, in which a trans student was sexually harassed by a professor.
  15. Pennsylvania Court Holds Transsexuals Not Protected Against Discrimination

     
    Collection: Court and Legal Documents
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Lesbian/Gay Law Notes
    Date: Jun. 1997
    Topics: Harassment, Law, Marriage, MtFs, Transitioning (Gender), Transsexual people, Transsexualism
    Subject: Kristine Holt
    Description: Excerpts from the June 1997 Lesbian/Gay Law Notes.
  16. Missouri Appeals Court Reverses Custody Grant to Transsexual Father

     
    Collection: Court and Legal Documents
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Lesbian/Gay Law Notes
    Date: Apr. 1997
    Topics: Crossdressers, Joint custody of children, LGBTQ+ parenthood, MtFs, Parental rights, Trans women, Transitioning (Gender), Transsexual people, Trials (Custody of children)
    Description: Excerpt from Lesbian/Gay Law Notes from April 1997 about a Missouri child custody case involving a trans parent.
  17. 6th Circuit Denies Appeal by Transsexual Inmate

     
    Collection: Court and Legal Documents
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Lesbian/Gay Law Notes
    Date: Mar. 1997
    Topics: Anti-transgender discrimination, Femininities, Hormone therapy (Gender), Imprisonment, MtFs, Prisons, Trans women, Transsexual people, Transsexualism
    Subject: Michelle Murray
    Description: Excerpt from Lesbian/Gay Law Notes about the Murray v. U.S. Bureau of Prisons case from 1997 in which Michelle Murray, a trans woman, faced trans-discriminatory treatment while imprisoned.
  18. 8th Circuit Rejects Constitutional Challenge to Treatment Denial for Transvestite Prisoner

     
    Collection: Court and Legal Documents
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Lesbian/Gay Law Notes
    Date: Summer 1996
    Topics: Drag, Gender identity disorder, LGBTQ+ prisoners, Medicalization, Prisons, Transitioning (Gender), Transsexualism
    Subject: Merlin Long
    Description: Excerpt from Lesbian/Gay Law Notes detailing the 1996 Long v. Nix case.
  19. No Right to Cross-Dress in State Penitentiary

     
    Collection: Court and Legal Documents
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Lesbian/Gay Law Notes
    Date: 1995
    Topics: Crossdressers, Gender dysphoria, Gender expression, Gender identity disorder, LGBTQ+ prisoners
    Subject: Veronica Rodriguez
    Description: Excerpt from Lesbian/Gay Law Notes 1995 containing the article "No Right to Cross-Dress in State Penitentiary."
  20. Seventh Circuit Holds Title VII Does Not Protect Transsexual

     
    Collection: Court and Legal Documents
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Lesbian/Gay Law Notes
    Date: Oct. 1984
    Topics: Anti-discrimination law, Anti-gay discrimination, Anti-lesbian discrimination, Homosexuality, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ discrimination, Transsexual people
    Subject: Christian Science Monitor, Christine Madsen, John Nehrich, Ken Ulane
    Description: An excerpt from Lesbian/Gay Law Notes that details a case of anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination as it relates to Title VII. The case in question, Ulane vs. Eastern Air Lines, Inc., involves a transsexual i...
  21. Transsexualism, Birth Registration and the Right to Marry: Schedule of Legislative and Case Law Developments in Europe

     
    Collection: Academic Papers and Publications
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Burgess, David, Ekins, Richard
    Date: Mar. 1986
    Topics: Birth certificate amendments, Gender realignment surgery, Law, Legal process, Marriage, Partners of transgender people, Public opinion, Transsexual people
    Subject: 1980 Transsexuellengesetz, 2nd International Congress on Psychiatry, Law and Ethics, Circular Letter 11 Nov. '76, Czechoslovakian State Health Institution, Dave King, European Commission on Human Rights, French Courts, inter alia, Mark Rees v. United Kingdom, Ministry of Ecclesiastical Affairs, Norwegian Central Bureau of Statistics, Portuguese Civil Code Article 10, Roberta Cowell, Sunday Pictorial, Sweedish Social Welfare Board, Symposium on Psycho-Legal Aspects of Sexual Problems
  22. Transsexualism, Birth Registration and the Right to Marry: Proposals for a Friendly Settlement in Mark Rees v. United Kingdom

     
    Collection: Academic Papers and Publications
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Burgess, David, Ekins, Richard
    Date: Unknown
    Topics: Birth certificate amendments, Discrimination, Employment discrimination, Gender, Gender realignment surgery, Human rights, Marriage, Sexual relationships, Transsexual people, Transsexualism
    Subject: 2nd International Congress on Psychiatry, Law and Ethics, European Commission on Human Rights, Mark Rees, Mark Rees v. United Kingdom, Nullity Act, Symposium on Psycho-Legal Aspects of Sexual Problems
  23. Symposium on Psycholegal Aspects of Sexual Problems (February 1986)

     
    Collection: Academic Papers and Publications
    Institution: Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
    Creator: Ekins, Richard
    Date: Feb. 1986
    Topics: Biology, Birth certificate amendments, Bisexuality, Discrimination, Ethics, Families, Gender, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Genetics, Homosexuality, Informed consent (Medical law), Law, Malpractice, Marriage, Medicine, Mental disorders, MtFs, Pregnancy, Psychiatry, Psychology, Sexuality, Shoah, Suicide, Transsexualism
    Subject: Amnon Carmi, April Ashley, Arthur Corbett, Corbett v. Corbett, DJ West, European Commission on Human Rights, Gunter Amin, International Centre of Medicine and Law (UNIBO), International Health Society, Israel Medical Association, Israel Ministry of Health, Israeli Psychiatric and Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Associations, M.T. v. J.T., Mary Lorrigan, Medico-legal, Meissner v. Federal Republic of Germany, Rees v. United Kingdom, Schering Health Care Limited, Society for Medicine and Law, Society of Medicine and Law in Israel, Transsexual v. Italy
  24. Proceso de fe de Elena de Céspedes

     
    Collection: Court and Legal Documents
    Institution: Archivo Histórico Nacional, Archivos Estatales España
    Creator: Tribunal de la Inquisición de Toledo
    Date: 1587 to 1589
    Topics: Alternative punishments, Black LGBTQ+ people, Courts, Crossdressing, Depositions, Gender expression, Law reports, digests, etc., Sentencing, Soldiers, Surgeons
    Subject: Elena de Céspedes, Eleno de Céspedes, Maria del Caño
    Description: Process of faith of Elena de Céspedes, also known as Eleno de Céspedes, a native of Alama and resident in Ocaña (Toledo), slave and then free, trade weaver, tailor, hosier, soldier and surgeon, for...
  25. Appendix 11: Adoption of B.L.V.B. & E.L.V.B.

     
    Collection: International Conference on Transgender Law and Employment Policy: Annual Proceedings and Newsletters
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Vermont Supreme Court
    Date: Aug. 1993
    Topics: Adoption, Lesbian parents, Parental rights, Personal and family law, Supreme court