SRLP Annual Report 2012

Dear SRLP Community, 2012 was an exciting year for all of us involved in SRLP! We provided free, respectful and affirming legal services, advice, and referrals to over 350 community members. We reduced discrimination and violence by reaching over 1,500 service providers, attorneys, judges, students, and activists at 26 trainings and speaking engagements across the country. We also offered 10 community building events that empowered over 200 community members to self-advocate and share knowledge and skills. Working in collaboration with community members and allied organizations, we achieved two victories protecting the rights of trans prisoners.

While we worked toward these achievements, we also celebrated our 10 year anniversary! This milestone gave us an opportunity to look back at SRLP’s decade of work and celebrate its impact. Participating in SRLP for the last ten years has been transformative for all of us. Focusing on anti-oppression, operating through consensus, and prioritizing trans people of color leadership, we built an innovative and truly unique organization. We have changed the conversation about what trans politics is by putting racism and poverty at the center.

Standing at this 10 year mark, we look forward to SRLP’s continuing work to address the many challenges facing trans, intersex, and gender non-conforming people. While national LGBT organizations increasingly turn their attention to trans people’s “rights” to serve in the military, our communities consistently find that our biggest priorities relate to welfare, police, shelters, schools and Medicaid. We are fighting to survive and to build trans resistance and an LGBT movement that centers the issues that disproportionately affect low-income trans people and trans people of color. In our 10th year, we continue to bring energy and resources to our work of transforming the conditions facing trans communities and to building our strength, leadership and resilience.

In Solidarity, SRLP Collective