Sign this petition to call on President Obama to sign an Executive Order to stop deportations! http://transgenderlawcenter.org/archives/10129 Join SRLP, Southerners on New Ground, and the Transgender Law Center to fight back against mass deportations! Come to SRLP for a Know Your Rights workshop on immigration tomorrow night from 7-8:30 PM at the SRLP office! Click here […]
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Know Your Rights: Protect Yourself at Work
Transgender Employees in New York Discrimination against transgender people in employment is still widespread, making it harder for us to keep jobs and have enough money to live. Laws now protect people from this kind of discrimination in New York. The details of the laws are here. Some examples of acts that can be discrimination […]
A Place of Respect: A Guide for Group Care Facilities Serving Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Youth
Author: Jody Marksamer National Center for Lesbian Rights Contributing Writers: Dean Spade Sylvia Rivera Law Project Gabriel Arkles Sylvia Rivera Law Project http://www.nclrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/A_Place_Of_Respect.pdf
SRLP Victory: Appellate Court Upholds the Right of Incarcerated Transgender People to Have Name Changed
By Sylvia Rivera Law Project on May 31, 2012 in Birth Certificates, News, Policy Advocacy, Press Release
May 31, 2012 After a two year legal struggle, New York courts uphold an incarcerated transgender woman’s right to change her name, reversing an earlier denial of her legal name change related to lack of medical evidence and the possibility of “confusion” ALBANY – The New York State Supreme Court Appellate Division, Third Judicial Department, […]
SRLP Victory: Incarcerated Transgender & Gender Non Conforming People & Allies Successfully Campaign For New Polices To End Prison Rape & Abuse
A culmination of 9 years of work, the Sylvia Rivera Law Project marks the release of the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Standards to Prevent, Detect and Respond to Prison Rape as a significant victory. The Department of Justice’s new standards come in response from recommendations from the Sylvia Rivera Law Project -including those of […]
SRLP June 2009 Newsletter
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
SRLP March 2008 Newsletter
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
SRLP October 2007 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
SRLP March 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
SRLP October 2006 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