Articles & Casework:
by Sondra Wilson. Updated 11/26/23.
Over the years, I have found that finding legal assistance and/or media coverage can be impossible to find here in Iowa, particularly with regard to discrimination against transgender women. I cannot speak for other transgender people, but you will see in several of the following articles, that even with hard evidence, there just isn’t a safety net in place for Iowans who live at “the bottom of the human rights barrel” when it comes to injustices caused by officers or businesses.
I would like to include more articles on www.WildWillpower.org besides cases involving injustice against me. If I did not own this website, I would have gotten no media coverage for the below instances even though I contacted numerous news agencies. I have also contacted more than 50 attorneys throughout Iowa, but the cheapest quote I got wanted $5000 up front and $275/hr. – way beyond what I can afford. I’ve also contacted dozens of nonprofits and legal aid organizations, however legal aid orgs “cannot take fee-generation cases” (due to legal stipulations they are under), and nonprofits “do not want to risk their 501c3 status”. This has left me on my own for the most part, so I founded Wild Willpower PAC, and am posting articles below to expose what I’ve been going through:
Iowa Cases:
- Sondra Wilson files $10M claim against the State of Iowa – related articles:
- Transgender Iowan, arrested for going in the women’s restroom in 2006, still seeks justice (2022)
- Following an unjust court ruling, officer warns transgender woman to “leave the state” for her safety (2009)
- Sondra Wilson files defamation suit against Lockwood Café and Reliable Street, calls for “employee accountability” (2023)
- City of Ames requires Citizens to “temporary obstruction permit” to obstruct Citizens from Petitioning, has no process to protect petitioners against political sabotage (2018)
California Cases:
About the Lady Justice photo above:
Why is Lady Justice blindfolded?
Interpretation by Sondra Wilson:
The image of Lady Justice, featured at the top of this page, is from article, “Speaking of Allegory” by David Scott. Wild Willpower is utilizing the image for First Amendment, and therefore it is protected according by fair use.
First off – I love that word, “allegory”. As I like to say – “Tis better to use allegory than to get all gory!”
Notice Lady Justice is blindfolded while holding the scales: this is because physical evidence (aka paperwork) “holds more weight” than that which one can hear. Unless you are surrounded by honest court administrators, your verbal testimony may not have the lasting impact you think it should – especially if the opposing side enters an affidavit into the docket: their physical paperwork documenting their sworn testimony may cause you to lose the case when weighed against
While this isn’t fair, I’m broadcasting it because I’m tired of people being deceived, manipulated, and treated unjustly through the courts.