Smart, Sexy and Making A Difference: Transgender Legal Defense Fund Celebrates 5

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Smart, Sexy and Making A Difference: Transgender Legal Defense Fund Celebrates 5th Anniversary
The Bilerico Project
Filed by: Dr. Jillian T. Weiss
May 26, 2010 10:30 AM


http://www.bilerico.com/2010/05/smart_sexy_and_making_a_difference_transgender_leg.php


In my role as your fabulous celebrity style correspondent, I attended a benefit for the New York City-based Transgender Legal Defense Fund last night.

This was smart, sexy and making a difference, but it was no empty, glitzy, shallow fund-raiser. Celebrating its fifth anniversary, TLDEF is an organization that works for trans equality through a combination of public education, test-case litigation, direct legal services, community organizing and public policy efforts. Our success as a community depends on institution-building, and the trans community needs more organizations like TLDEF.