Trans Empowerment Project
Blind, Autistic, Transgender Man in Florida Needs Rescue From Abusive Conservatorship
Ensuring that our client is removed from a dangerous, potentially life-threatening situation.
Posted June 24, 2022
Background & Context
This is a very unique case and one that we're wanting to keep details rather tight on, in order to protect our client and keep him safe until he's away from his current situation. We need help from an attorney whose qualifications include:
- Licensed in Florida,
- Experience in Disability Rights & Conservatorship Litigation
- Experience with Blind Clients (such as a member of the National Federation for the Blind)
- Experience with Transgender Clients, especially Youth in Red States
- Experience with, and understanding of the challenges of representing, Autistic Clients
- Experience with representing Clients with CPTSD, childhood survivors of War Zones, and foreign adoptees
- Advocates for the rights of people with Mental Illness and Intensive Medical Needs
Further context will be provided upon contact.
Work & Deliverables
We need assistance helping a 23-year-old Blind, Transgender, Autistic man in Florida who has been entrapped in a dangerous conservatorship for the past twenty years, but instances of abuse have been escalating since 2020. This client has suffered abuse, neglect, and financial exploitation at the hands of his adoptive mother/guardian.
Folks working with this client in Florida have put together a detailed legal and logistical escape plan that we hope will keep this individual as safe as possible. He needs Legal Counsel because he is not able to adequately represent himself to officials.
We need an attorney to work with this client and his trusted circle to help him advocate for himself, in order to end this conservatorship and live a more independent and abuse-free life.
Preparation Phase
- Connect with TEP point of contact and the case manager that has been working with our client.
Collaboration Phase
- Work with client and case manager to achieve their goals
Wrap Up
- Debrief with TEP point of contact
Trans Empowerment Project
Trans Empowerment Project is a federally recognized 501(c)(3) organization working to create sustainable systems of support that are centered around disabled Queer, Trans, Intersex People of Color (QTIPOC). Through the abolition of white supremacy and our commitment to holding ourselves (and each other) accountable, we hope to be able to move into a truly equitable future where we can all thrive. The organization was started in Dec. of 2016 to help address the needs of trans and gender-expansive community members and has grown to become one of the largest providers of direct aid to the trans community in the United States. To date, TEP has provided direct aid and other resources to over 3k Trans folks, and allyship education to countless others.
Trans Empowerment Project
Trans Empowerment Project is a federally recognized 501(c)(3) organization working to create sustainable systems of support that are centered around disabled Queer, Trans, Intersex People of Color (QTIPOC). Through the abolition of white supremacy and our commitment to holding ourselves (and each other) accountable, we hope to be able to move into a truly equitable future where we can all thrive. The organization was started in Dec. of 2016 to help address the needs of trans and gender-expansive community members and has grown to become one of the largest providers of direct aid to the trans community in the United States. To date, TEP has provided direct aid and other resources to over 3k Trans folks, and allyship education to countless others.