Transgender Healthcare is Good for New York! SRLP demands transition-related healthcare coverage for low-income New Yorkers On June 19, SRLP, the Legal Aid Society, and Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP filed a federal class action lawsuit against the NY State Department of Health to overturn the Medicaid regulation barring transition-related healthcare on the grounds that […]
Dear Community, It’s been an exciting year for the Sylvia Rivera Law Project! Our Prisoner Advisory Committee, made up of transgender people in prison, collaborated with SRLP staff and volunteers to launch Blogging from the Inside: Writings by Transgender People in Prison. In collaboration with partner organizations, we also launched a public education, media, and […]
During CeCe’s recent media tour in New York City she stopped by the office and celebrated the latest version of SRLP’s In Solidarity publication written with and for incarcerated community members here in New York State. This issue features writing by Janet Mock, a 1970 interview between Sylvia Rivera and a trans person incarcerated […]
SRLP’s latest news from 2009: *40 Years After Stonewall: Honoring Sylvia Rivera *Community Forum on Proposed Changes to NYPD Policy *Updates on Pen Pal Project, Bronx Clinic, Know Your Rights Trainings *New Trans Legal Clinics in LA, Boston *Queer/Trans Seattlites Fight to Stop New Jail newsjune09
This issue includes: It’s War In Here Report Release Introducing the Prisoner Advisory Board Violence & Punishment: Transforming Justice in Trans Communities Community Words/Artwork March 2008 newsletter
This issue includes: SRLP Supports Immigrant Communities in Action to Oppose “Report to Deport” Bill Jersey 4: Young Black Lesbians to Jail for Self-Defense SRLP at the US Social Forum Police Violence at SRLP 5th Anniversary First SRLP Pro Bono Award October 2007 newsletter
This issue includes: SRLP Victory for Trans Youth in Juvenile Justice System Disseminating strategies nationally The fight for birth certificates continues Introducing the Prisoner Pen Pal Project March 2007 Newsletter
This issue includes: Gender Action Coalition takes on discrimination at HRA Connected struggles: the war on terror and trans people US questioned at UN on record of police brutality and abuse of trans people October 2006 newsletter
SRLP has been busy! opposing the closing of gay and trans housing at Rikers Fighting Racism from Within and Without SRLP Collective: Building and Growing SRLP and Allies win victory for Trans Homeless People March 2006 Newsletter
This issue includes: New Guidelines to Enforce NYC Anti-Discrimination Law SRLP teams up with NYC Radical Teachers to address gender diversity in schools Community alert: stop the deportation of Jiffy Javanella February 2005 newsletter
