Gender Justice

Along with our work in the courts, we utilize the legislature to create social change. We lobby for new policies and laws that transform the ways our country addresses gender injustice. By organizing locally and nationally for meaningful reform, we work to change public opinion on gender.

Gender Justice also serves as the organizational home of UnRestrict Minnesota, which is a multi-racial coalition of LGBTQ+ advocates, faith communities, clinicians, activists, doctors, abortion funds, lawyers, organizers, healthcare clinics, doulas, podcasts, and more.

We work across Minnesota to build coalitions with local movements and have recently begun our expansion to the Dakotas. Coordinating with local movements helps us to stay connected to how policymaking plays out on the ground – including the identification of enforcement gaps and unintended consequences – to identify potential plaintiffs for impact litigation. Through these collaborations, we can bring our legal expertise to our partnerships with allies in grassroots and underserved communities, which recently has included transgender youth and incarcerated individuals, anti-hate and anti-violence efforts, LGBTQ+ health organizations, and abolition work.

The goal of our education work is to shift the narrative around gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, and abortion access towards being human rights that are entitled to everyone. While our litigation, advocacy, and movement building seek to shift the legal framework, our education works to shift the public perception around gender and sexuality. This is imperative for creating the groundswell of support for our work, especially among legal professionals and the judiciary, which are strongly influenced by public norms and mores.