Press Release

Attorney in Landmark Marriage Equality Case to Speak at Equal Justice Works Conference

by NCLR Staff | Sep 30, 2008 | Shannon Minter, transgender law

(Washington, DC, September 30, 2008)—Shannon Minter, Legal Director for the National Center for Lesbian Rights and lead attorney in the California Supreme Court case that allowed same-sex couples to marry, is the featured speaker at the 2008 Equal Justice Works Conference and Career Fair, October 10 and 11, in Washington, DC. Mr. Minter is one of the nation’s leading advocates for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. He began his law career as an Equal Justice Works Fellow in...

Cases & Advocacy

In re Marriage of S.

by Dan Mahoney | Dec 31, 2005 | transgender parents, transgender law, trans parents, transgender custody dispute, trans custody dispute, transgender marriage

NCLR assisted S., a transgender father in Chicago. S. has lived his entire adult life as a male and has undergone medical treatment for sex-reassignment. He also had his birth certificate changed to reflect his male gender. S. married in 1985. He and his wife had a child together in 1992 through alternative insemination. When S. filed for divorce in 1998, his wife counter-petitioned to have their marriage declared void and to terminate S.’s parental rights. All three therapists who...