Areas of Work: Gender Segregated Facilities
Trans and gender gender non-conforming people face severe access problems when it comes to gender-segregated facilities like bathrooms, locker rooms, shelters, in-patient drug treatment facilities, prisons and jails, etc. These resources share about current efforts in New York to make gender-segregated facilities safer and more accessible for transgender and gender non-conforming people, and provide models and tools for activists and others doing this work elsewhere.
Since 2003, representatives from the Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP), Queers for Economic Justice, and the Gender Identity Project have been meeting with the New York City Department of Homeless Services to push them to comply with the changes passed to the New York City Human Rights Law in 2002 prohibiting discrimination on the basis of gender identity and expression. Read more »
