Jennifer L. Levi is the Senior Director of Transgender and Queer Rights and a nationally recognized expert on transgender legal issues. Jennifer is actively in the fight against President Trump’s anti-LGBTQ+ executive orders.  In two lawsuits, Talbott contra Estados Unidos y Irlanda contra Hegseth, she is litigating a ban on transgender people joining or serving in the military in his second presidency. Jennifer is also co-counsel in three lawsuits challenging an executive order that attempted to force transgender women in prison to be housed in men’s facilities. She led the legal fight against the first Trump Administration’s military ban in both Doe contra Trump y Stockman contra Trump.  

Jennifer’s role is that of architect and advocate for state legislative and policy reform. Their work also involves challenging new legal issues or interpretations brought before the court. Levi has represented clients in cases challenging improper denials of medical care as well as improper placement of transgender people in prisons and jails. Other precedent-setting transgender rights cases Levi has worked on include: 

Rosa contra Park West Bank, un caso presentado en nombre de una mujer transgénero a quien se le negó un préstamo bancario bajo la Ley de Igualdad de Oportunidades de Crédito federal que sentó las bases para la reciente decisión de la Corte Suprema en Bostock contra el condado de Clayton; 

O'Donnabhain contra el Comisionado de Impuestos Internos (2010), which established that medical care relating to gender transition qualifies for a medical tax deduction; and 

Doe contra Clenchy (2014), en el que el primer tribunal superior estatal dictaminó que una niña transgénero debe estar plenamente integrada en su escuela primaria pública como niña, incluido el acceso pleno e igualitario a los baños. 

Jennifer was co-counsel in two landmark marriage equality cases, winning the freedom to marry for same-sex couples in Massachusetts (Goodridge contra el Departamento de Salud Pública, 2003) y Connecticut (Kerrigan contra el Departamento de Salud Pública, 2008), y ha liderado una serie de casos clave de derecho de familia que establecen protecciones importantes para familias encabezadas por padres LGBTQ, incluidos Sinnott contra Peck y Miller-Jenkins contra Miller-Jenkins, ambos decididos por la Corte Suprema de Vermont. 

Jennifer is a law professor at Western New England University, co-editor of Ley de Familia Transgénero: A Guide to Effective Advocacy (2012), y forma parte del Comité Legal de la Asociación Profesional Mundial para la Salud Transgénero. Se graduó de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Chicago y fue asistente legal del Honorable Juez Michael Boudin en la Corte de Apelaciones del Primer Circuito de los Estados Unidos.