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  • Your Healthcare Rights: Youth
    Healthcare Rights of Trans Youth in New York City In this brochure: • Right to Emergency Medical Care • Transgender Healthcare Discrimination • HIV Healthcare Discrimination • Rights of Youth to Consent to Healthcare • Commitment and Involuntary Mental Health Treatment • The Right to Adequate Care

  • Tus Derechos al Cuidado de Salud: Juventud
    La Juventud Trans en la ciudad de Nueva York

    El Derecho A La Asistencia Médica De Emergencia • Discriminación En El Cuidado De Salud De Personas Transgenero • Discriminación del VIH en cuidado de salud • Los Derechos De La Juventud A Consentimiento De Servicios De Salud • Reclusión Y Tratamiento De Salud Mental Involuntario • El Derecho Al Cuidado Adecuado Read more »


  • Qué hacer sobre la discriminación en el Cuidado de Salud

    Si usted piensa que han discriminado en su contra, he aquí algunas cosas que usted puede hacer para proteger sus derechos. Read more »


  • Your Healthcare Rights
    Trans Adults in New York City • Right to Emergency Medical Care • Transgender Healthcare Discrimination • HIV Healthcare Discrimination • Rights to Consent to Healthcare • Rights to Refuse Treatment • What to do About Healthcare Discrimination

  • Victoria en la lucha por el acceso a los beneficios publicos para las comunidades Transgero!

    Posted on 12/24/09

     
      ¡Después de años de presión de la comunidad general para poner fin a la discriminación contra las personas transgénero intentar acceder a los beneficios públicos en Nueva York, estamos encantados de anunciar que la Administración de Recursos Humanos (HRA) ha adoptado nuevos procedimientos para trabajar con l@s transexuales y l@s clientes no conformes al género! Read more »


  • Victory in fight for access to benefits for trans communities!

    Posted on 12/23/09

    After years of widespread community pressure to end discrimination against transgender people trying to access public benefits in NYC, we are thrilled to announce that the Human Resources Administration (HRA) has adopted new procedures for working with transgender and gender nonconforming clients!  To learn more about the procedures, please see our fact sheet. Read more »


  • National Commission on Correctional Health Care adopts policy on Transgender Health Care in Correctional Settings

    The Sylvia Rivera Law Project, together with several other legal and medical organizations and individuals, including the TGI Justice Project, Lambda Legal, the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and Lori Kohler of the Correctional Medicine Consultation Network, worked closely with the National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC) to support the adoption of an official position sta Read more »


  • Unraveling Injustice: Race and Class Impact of Medicaid Exclusions of Transition-Related Health Care for Transgender People
    BY POOJA S. GEHI, GABRIEL ARKLES. SEXUALITY RESEARCH & SOCIAL POLICY. (DEC 07: 4,4) In this article, the authors analyze the contradiction between the medicalization of trans experience(s) and government’s refusal to recognize the legitimacy and necessity of trans health care. The authors examine the social, economic, legal, political, medical, and mental health impact of these policies on low-income trans communities, paying particular attention to the disproportionate impact on communities of color. The authors conclude with recommendations for legal and health care systems to improve access to transition-related health care for low-income trans people.

  • A Human Rights Investigation in the Medical "Normalization" of Intersex People
    (from the preface) "On May 27, 2004, the San Francisco Human Rights Commission held a public hearing to investigate the issue of "normalizing" medical interventions being performed on intersex infants and children. The public hearing and this report resulted from requests from people with intersex anatomies for the Commission to explore the question of unwanted, "normalizing" interventions performed on children born with "ambiguous genitalia." Specifically, the Commission became concerned that homophobia, transphobia, and heterosexism were strong social forces that contributed to the decision-making process for assigning sex and gender to intersex children through "normalizing" genital surgeries and sex hormone treatments."