Since the memo from federal Health and Human Services was leaked last month to the New York Times the issues affecting healthcare for transgender and gender non-conforming people (TGNC people) have been constantly featured in media outlets. What has consistently not been covered, however, are the many ways in which healthcare fails to adequately cover our TGNCI […]
Archive | SRLP In The Media
How Politicians Are Using Faux Progressive Arguments to Lock Up Young People
Dean Spade, Sylvia Rivera Law Project’s founder and member of our collective, wrote In In These Times about the ways in which the justification for expanding the carceral state and perpetuation of systemic racism is couched in progressive language. The push for new jails in Seattle in the name of racial justice and prison reform reveals why […]
SRLP Recommended by Bustle as an Organization to Support on Trans Day of Visibility
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SRLP Staff Attorney Mik Kinkead Remarks on Sexual Abuse Experienced by TGNCI People Behind Bars
In this article on Medium, Mik Kinkead was quoted on the sexual abuse that trans, gender non-conforming and intersex people experience behind bars. Mik Kinkead of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, which provides free legal services to trans people behind bars, worked with more than 20 trans people in the city’s jails in 2017. All […]
SRLP Mentioned as a Trans Advocacy Group
In this Teen Vogue article about Caitlyn Jenner’s Response to Trump, the Sylvia Rivera Law Project is mentioned as one of several trans advocacy group doing the work to improve the lives of trans people. Read more about this here.
Allure Recommends Supporting SRLP as a Way to Support Trans and Non-binary People
Allure recommends the Sylvia Rivera Law Project as one of four organizations to donate to support trans and gender non-binary people. Read more about this here
SRLP’s Mik Kinkead Talks About Name Changes in Prisons
In Truthout, SRLP’s Director of Prisoner Justice Project Mik Kinkead talks about the difficult processes and expenses involved in name changes for our trans and gender non-conforming clients who are behind bars. Mik Kinkead, SRLP’s staff attorney and director of its Prisoner Justice Project, is currently working with 30 people on name changes. The […]
SRLP’s Kyle Rapiñan Comments on Nevada’s New Name Change Bill
In Vocativ, SRLP’s Director of Survival and Self-Determination Kyle Rapiñan comments on Nevada’s new name change bill, which does not not force trans people to publicize their legal name changes in a newspaper. Advocates, such as Kyle Rapiñan, director of the Survival and Self-Determination Project with the Sylvia Rivera Law Project in New York, hoped that the […]
SRLP’s Anaylsis of Trans Criminalization Mentioned on WBAI’s On the Count
On the Count is a radio show on WBAI produced by formerly incarcerated people and focuses on politics, activism, and analyses of the criminal justice system. This episode gave a shout-out to SRLP, including reading parts of SRLP’s analysis of trans criminalization. SRLP’s Movement Building Team member Xena Grandichelli is among those interviewed during this episode. This […]
SRLP Comments on Agender Ruling in Oregon
A handful of organizations serving transgender, gender-nonconforming and intersex people told NBC News that no U.S. court has ever granted a legally genderless status before. SRLP’s Director of Self-Determination, Kyle Rapiñan, comments on the ruling. “This is the first time that Sylvia Rivera Law Project has heard about this, and we applaud the court […]