Endorse Today - Welfare Justice for Trans and Gender Non Conforming Communities

Trans and Gender Non-Conforming people in New York City face rampant Transphobia, discrimination, and harassment when seeking to access welfare/public assistance. Since 2005, Trans and Gender Non-Conforming (TGNC) communities in New York City have been urging the Human Resources Administration (HRA), the city agency responsible for public assistance, to address this issue.

In June of 2008, a week before the Fourth Annual Trans Day of Action which was set to protest at HRA headquarters, HRA officials agreed to meet with TransJustice, a project of the Audre Lorde Project, to hear community concerns. As a result, over the last year TransJustice formed a committee of organizations including the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, Housing Works, Queers for Economic Justice and others, who worked with HRA to develop a procedure to address transphobic discrimination at HRA. To date HRA has not approved this new procedure.

We need everyone’s help to call on the NYC HRA to approve and implement this new procedure. In 2005 the New York City Human Resources Administration and a Citizen Advisory Transgender Sub Committee developed Best Practice Protocols for Working With and Serving Trans and Gender Non Conforming Employees and Clients (the new procedure is based on this document), these protocols sat on the shelf for years and were never implemented nor adopted by HRA. We will not let this happen again!

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Check this box to join NYC Trans and Gender Non Conforming communities in calling on the NYC Human Resources Administration (HRA) to end the rampant Transphobia, discrimination, and harassment that Trans and Gender Non-Conforming people in New York City face when accessing welfare/public assistance by endorsing the Welfare Justice! Campaign.

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