In direct response to Cruz v. Zucker, our lawsuit challenging New York State’s ban on transgender health care coverage, oral arguments will be heard this coming Monday October 17 on the medical necessity of gender-affirming health care for trans youth. SRLP asks that you join us and our co-counsel The Legal Aid Society and Willkie Farr […]
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Speak up against sexual violence at the Board of Corrections hearing
By Sylvia Rivera Law Project on July 21, 2016 in Action Alert, Everyday Abolition, Legal, News, Prisoner Rights Project, SRLP News, SRLP Prisoner Advisory Committee
Thank you to those who came out to the membership meeting on Tuesday at the Sylvia Rivera Law Project to prepare for Board of Correction (BOC) hearing! We were so grateful to be able to listen to everyone’s innovative suggestions for making NYC jails safer for trans, gender non-conforming and intersex (TGNCI) folks. If you weren’t able […]
Tell the Department of Health that trans health care must include ALL of us!
As we enter this Pride weekend it is important to remember that many people – in particular transgender women of color – still struggle to meet their basic human needs such as health care. Despite ongoing litigation in Cruz v. Zucker, the NYS DOH continues to suggest amendments to the current regulation that make it harder for […]
SRLP Members Help HALT Solitary in NYS Prisons
By Sylvia Rivera Law Project on April 8, 2016 in Action Alert, Everyday Abolition, Legal, Policy Advocacy, Prisoner Rights Project
On any single day about 4,000 people are held in solitary confinement in New York State prisons. This is a fact that Marci, a member of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project’s Movement Building Team, knows all too well. Having survived solitary confinement herself, Marci is now joining a group of advocates on April 12 […]
Reducing Sexual Violence on the Road to Abolition
By Sylvia Rivera Law Project on March 29, 2016 in Action Alert, Everyday Abolition, Legal, Prisoner Rights Project
Next Monday, April 4, SRLP is thrilled to be joining survivors, loved ones of survivors and advocates in the beginning of a campaign to address sexual violence and sexual harassment in the NYC jails. Around this time last year SRLP, along with other allied organizations and New York City’s Public Advocate Letitia James, submitted […]
Last chance to make noise for trans healthcare to the Feds!
By Sasha Alexander, SRLP Director of Membership on January 19, 2016 in Action Alert, Legal, Membership, Policy Advocacy
This is a call to action to support trans health! Tonight, comments are due at 11:59 pm on a new proposed rule from the federal housing agency, HUD (Housing and Urban Development) for a change in regulations regarding “Equal Access to Housing in HUD Programs Regardless of Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity (Equal Access Rule)“. Our communities […]
Stop Harsh New Restrictions on People in NYC Jails and Their Families!
By Sylvia Rivera Law Project on September 25, 2015 in Action Alert, Legal, News, Policy Advocacy, Prisoner Rights Project, SRLP News
The NYC Department of Corrections seeks to change rules to limit visitation and packages in NYC jails, which would negatively impact the conditions of those who are incarcerated and their friends and families. SRLP and many of our organizational friends and allies such as the Jails Action Coalition placed pressure on DOC’s governing body (the Board of Correction) to not vote on […]
SRLP Members and Staff Oppose Visitation Changes in NYC Jails
By Sylvia Rivera Law Project on September 22, 2015 in Action Alert, Legal, News, Policy Advocacy, Prisoner Rights Project, SRLP News, SRLP Prisoner Advisory Committee
The Sylvia Rivera Law Project was proud to join the Jail Action Coalition and its partner organizations for a rally and press conference on the steps of City Hall on Tuesday September 9. SRLP staff and members went out in 90 degree weather to protest the tightening of visitation and package restrictions on Riker’s and […]
Support Black Trans Women Fight for Survival
Authored by Chase Strangio and Rage M. Kidvai It has been a heartbreaking year as we have learned of the deaths of too many trans women in our community. In this week alone, we learned of three more murders – all of Black trans women. As we grieve these horrible losses, we are at the […]
Tell the Dept. of Health we need trans healthcare for ALL
By Sasha Alexander, SRLP Director of Membership on February 1, 2015 in Action Alert, Legal, SRLP News, Survival and Self Determination Project
The Sylvia Rivera Law Project, TransJustice of the Audre Lorde Project, and GLOBE: The LGBTQ Justice Organization of Make the Road New York are celebrating New York State’s proposed Medicaid regulation as an important step towards safe and affirming healthcare for all trans people. But we still have work to do. We need to push for real access to […]