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To Fight a Stacked Federal Bench, the ACLU Goes to the States
As federal courts grow more hostile to civil rights and civil liberties, the ACLU turns to state courts — building on a century of experience.
Pride Month Q&A with Attorney, Activist, and Author Robyn Gigl
Winning Protections for Transgender People in Prison, From the Perspective of a Lawyer and a Transgender Woman
ACLU-NJ and Garden State Equality Letter to County Jails on Rights of Transgender People
The New Jersey Department of Corrections recently agreed to adopt a system-wide policy to help protect transgender, intersex, and non-binary people in prisons. This was the result of an agreement settling a civil rights suit brought by a woman who was forced to live in men’s prisons for a year and a half, represented by the ACLU of New Jersey and attorney Robyn Gigl of Gluck Walrath LLP. The new policy includes housing in line with gender identity, appropriate use of pronouns, access to gender-affirming property, and more.
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