Trans Legal Clinic
Trans Legal Clinic
Trans Legal Clinic
The Trans Legal Clinic is a grassroots, trans-led legal clinic providing free and accessible legal support to trans people across the UK. We operate just like a law firm. Our highly specialist teams of volunteer caseworkers, overseen by our supervising solicitors take on real cases, for real clients, providing high quality, AdviceUK accredited advice, support and assistance.​ What makes us so different is who we serve, how we serve them, and why we exist.
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Our solicitors & barristers are external, based at our partner firms and are contracted to act for our clients on a pro-bono basis, each overseeing a team of highly-specialist, in-house caseworkers in Housing and Homelessness, Discrimination, Gender Based Violence and Gender Recognition. Our partner solicitors bring allyship, a commitment to access to justice and, most importantly, the law! We bring our highly-specialist, accredited-training, the man-power needed to deliver individual, high quality legal interventions on a large scale!​ Together, we demand equity.
This is equitable justice in action.
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Who we serve
Trans* people are over-policed, under-protected, and routinely excluded from legal support. Our community faces discrimination at work, denial of healthcare, housing insecurity, gender-based violence, and state violence. What allows this culture of injustice prevail is the vast disparity in access to justice among Trans* people, particularly Trans* women, working-class Trans* people, Black and racialised Trans* people, sex workers, disabled and neurodivergent Trans* people, those experiencing homelessness, and those without access to gender-affirming healthcare. Trans* people have no collective voice in the legal domain, we exist to close that gap.
How we serve
Our casework model is delivered across four core services:
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Discrimination – across goods, services, education, housing, and public services
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Gender-based Violence – including hate crime, domestic and sexual violence, and policy misconduct
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Housing and Homelessness – including homelessness and illegal/discriminatory evictions
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Gender Recognition & Access to Healthcare – support navigating the complex legal maze of obtaining gender recognition. From deed polls, updating passport/drivers license & updating gender markers to supporting GP/NHS Complaints about access to healthcare.
We are often able to resolve our clients concerns without ever needing to go to court. Where
this is not possible.we utilise Equality Act, Public Law & Human Rights tools to ensure that
equality before the law includes us.