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The Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP) works to guarantee that all people are free to self-determine our gender identity and expression, regardless of income, and without facing harassment, discrimination or violence.

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NEW!

Two recent articles from The Gay City News and The New York Blade describe the efforts of SRLP and other advocates to ensure that New York City's Human Rights Law, expanded in 2002 to protect transgender and gender-variant people, is properly enforced. ALSO: Read the transcript of the public hearing held by New York City's Equal Employment Practices Commission about the enforcement of the law. Testimony by SRLP's Dean Spade begins on page 98!

Read an article about Sylvia Rivera in the Dallas Voice

Download our February 2004 Newsletter! (PDF)

Read "Louder Than Words," (part 1) and part 2, a January 2004 article about SRLP in the New York Press

Toilet Training, our new documentary video on trans bathroom access will be available soon! Download the order form (PDF) or learn more about it

Read the October 24 favorable decision for SRLP

Check out SRLP's first ever Newsletter! (PDF)

Read the July 3rd Gay City News Article about SRLP's work fighting bathroom harrassment in New York City

Read Dean's recent Berkeley Women's Law Journal article, Resisting Medicine, Re/modeling Gender (PDF)

Read the Gay City News Article about a Trans Inmate denied hormone treatment while in a juvenile detention center

Read The Big Issue July 17th Article about Dean Spade by Catherine Coyle. (If the article is too small click on the icon on the bottom right corner of the image).