LEGAL WORK & MEDIA

Prior Cases
EEOC v. Apple Metro, Inc. et al. EEOC et al. v. United Health Programs of America, Inc. et al. Diamond v. Owens Oxford, Alabama Restroom Ordinance Dye v. Summerford Nursing Home Broussard v. Tower Loan M.C. v. MUSC
  • Case Docket​

News Coverage
Latest Coverage: Previous Coverage:
  • CNN, "Anti-trans bathroom ordinance repealed in Oxford, Alabama" (Link)
  • Charlotte News & Observer, "When Bathrooms Become a Civil Rights Battleground" (Link)
  • WIAT, "Oxford City Council Rescinds Restroom Ordinance" (Link)
  • NPR, "Feds Investigate GA Corrections' Treatment of LGBT Inmates" (Link)​
  • ​Atlanta Journal Constitution, "Civil Rights Lawsuit Filed to Protect Transgender Prisoner" (Link)
  • NYTimes, "Transgender Woman Cites Attacks and Abuse in Men’s Prison" (Link)
  • NYTimes, "Transgender Inmate’s Hormone Treatment Lawsuit Gets Justice Dept. Backing" (Link)
  • NYTimes, "Georgia Says It Will Allow Hormones for Transgender Inmates" (Link)
  • NYTimes, "Transgender Inmate Who Sued Georgia Gets Unexpected Parole" (Link)
  • NYTimes, "State to Pay Transgender Inmate" (Link)
  • NPR, "Lawsuit Prompts Policy Change for Transgender Inmates"​ (Link)
  • NPR, "Justice Dept. Weighs In On Georgia Transgender Inmate Lawsuit" (Link)
  • NPR, "Lawyers: Transgender Inmate Still Faces Harm In Georgia Prison" (Link)
  • NPR, "Transgender Inmate Ashley Diamond Released from Georgia Prison" (Link)
  • NPR, "Transgender Parolee Ashley Diamond Faces Uncertain Future" (Link)
  • NPR, "Released Transgender Inmate Settles With Ga. Prison Officials" (Link)
  • Buzzfeed, "Trans Woman Settles Suit After Being Denied Hormones In Prison" (Link)
  • Georgia Public Broadcasting Channel, "Ashley Diamond" (Link)
  • The Guardian, "The silence on abuse of transgender inmates in US prisons is deafening " (Link)
  • The Guardian, "DoJ says inmates' gender dysphoria should be given treatment in prison" (Link)
  • ​New York Daily News, "Transgender inmate sues Georgia seeking to end 'gross human rights violations' in prisons" (Link)
  • New York Daily News, "Transgender inmate paroled early from Georgia prison after suing for hormone therapy, safe environment" (Link)
  • NBC 11 Alive, "Transgender woman: I was raped, mistreated in Georgia prison" (Link)
  • Al Jazeera America, "Trans Woman Discusses Life in All-Male Prison After Release" (Link)
  • Al Jazeera America, "Transgender Former Inmate Settles with Prison Officials"(Link)
  • The Advocate, "After Three Years Jailed With Men, Ashley Diamond Speaks" (Link)
  • The Advocate , "Trans Woman Ashley Diamond Reaches Settlement with Ga. Dept. of Corrections" (Link)
  • Reuters, "Georgia Settles Lawsuit Over Hormone Therapy for Transgender Inmate" (Link)
  • The Independent, "Black transgender Woman Delivers Emotional Interview about Her Abuse in Prison" (Link)
  • Australia Broadcasting Channel, "Transgender & Prison" (Link)

Speaking Engagements
  • KeyNote Speaker, 2018 Yale Law School Rebellious Lawyering Conference 
  • Commentator, MSNBC, The Melissa Harris-Perry Show (Link)
  • Commentator, MSNBC, Seema Iyer's The Docket (Link)
  • Commentator, Huffington Post Live (Link)
  • Presenter, 2017 Yale Law School Rebellious Lawyering Conference
  • Presenter, Duke Law School Conference on the Present and Future of Civil Rights Movements, Plenary on Developments and Ongoing Challenges for LGBTQ Communities (Link)
  • Presenter, World Professional Association on Transgender Health Inaugural U.S. Conference
  • Lecturer, Columbia Law School, LGBT Rights After Marriage: What's Left?
  • Presenter, LGBT* in the South, Dismantling the Discrimination to Incarceration Pipeline for Transgender People of Color
  • Presenter, Lavender Law, Pro Bono Partnerships
  • Presenter, Lavender Law, Update on Legal and Human Rights Developments Affecting the Intersex Community
  • Presenter, Transgender Law Symposium, Updates in Employment Law
  • Presenter, Black History Month Gala: The Legacy of Bayard Rustin
  • Presenter, Alabama State University Symposium, Being Black & LGBTQ

Awards & Honors

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Publications
  • ​Deconstructing the Body: Transgender and Intersex Identities and Sex Discrimination—The Need for Strict Scrutiny, 20 COLUM. J. GENDER & L. 141 (2011) (Link)
  • Discourses on Self, Work and Globalization among Kenyan Apparel Workers, 6 YALE J. SOC. 6 (2006) (Link)