Today, the Sylvia Rivera Law Project staged a direct action at New York’s Population Health Summit, an educational public health event held by Health Commissioner Nirav. R. Shah. We calling on Commissioner Shah to create safe and affordable healthcare for trans and gender non conforming people. In order for this to happen, we demand the immediate repeal […]
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Check out GLAAD’s Press Release About SRLP’s Healthcare Campaign Action !
http://www.glaad.org/blog/srlp-takes-action-ny-health-summit-calling-end-healthcare-discrimination-transgender-people
Support SRLP and our fight for safe and affordable healthcare for trans people on #GivingTuesday!
This morning SRLP and our allies showed up at the Department of Health to demand that NY State Commissioner Nirav R. Shaw repeals New York State’s Medicaid regulation excluding transgender people from accessing care. Healthcare for transgender people is not special healthcare. It is healthcare that non-trans people receive every day when they need it. […]
Thousands call on Governor Cuomo and Commissioner Shah to end healthcare discrimination!
Since SRLP launched our healthcare campaign just over a week ago, thousands of people have joined the call to action for safe and affordable healthcare for trans people! Join us by signing the petition and sharing the call to action at http://www.srlp.org/healthcare “Health care for trans folks isn’t special care. Whether prescribing estrogen for women […]
Al Jazeera America covers SRLP healthcare campaign
Since SRLP launched our campaign for safe and affordable healthcare in New York nearly 2,000 people have signed the petition calling on Governor Cuomo and NYS Health Com. Shah to repeal Medicaid’s discriminatory regulation that prevents trans and gender non conforming people from accessing healthcare. Thank you for your support! This past week Al Jazeera America interviewed […]
PAC Members show support for Chelsea Manning
For background, in 2010 the anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks published classified U.S. Army intelligence files determined to have been supplied by former U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning. Following her arrest, Manning plead guilty to leaking military information and was convicted of twenty-two related offenses. This debacle, along with her recent coming out as a transgender […]
Reflections on new GID policy, from PAC
“A Win For Transgender Prisoners,” by R. Cepeda. There has been a recent victory for transgender prisoners in the New York State Prison system regarding hormone treatment for those with GID (Gender Identity Disorder). In the past, transgender prisoners could not get hormones unless they could prove that they were getting treatment from a doctor […]
New GID Policy for NYS Prisons, Yet Healthcare Still Inaccessible
At the end of last month, The Private Manning Support Network posted a letter that details Ms. Chelsea Manning’s intentions to fight for hormone replacement therapy (HRT), gender-consistent “real life experience” (RLE) and “sex-reassignment surgery” (SRS) within the correctional facility she will be serving her thirty-five year sentence, the United States Disciplinary Barracks at Fort […]
Introducing the Prisoner Advisory Committee Blog!
The Sylvia Rivera Law Project’s collective model prioritizes the voices of the people most affected by the systems of violence and oppression we fight daily. This model of community involvement led to the creation of our Prisoner Advisory Committee (PAC); a committee of trans, intersex, gender non-conforming people and allies who are currently incarcerated in […]
SRLP’s Reina Gossett talks to ABC News about queer identity, Sylvia Rivera
SRLP Membership Director Reina Gossett spoke to ABC News about why she identifies as queer. Reina Gossett, a 30-year-old transgender woman who identifies as “queer,” said the term is “political” and has a “legacy of resistance.” “There is a long history of people who identified on the margins of culture,” she said. “It’s about naming […]