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Erweiterter Zugang zur HIV-Prävention in Maine

Aktualisieren: Am 1. Juli 2025 wurde LD1687 in Kraft gesetzt!

Angesichts der steigenden Zahl von HIV-Fällen aufgrund eines aktiven HIV-Ausbruchs in Bangor und der Bedrohung durch die Bundesmittel zur HIV-Prävention müssen wir auf Landesebene entschlossen handeln, um den Zugang zu bewährten, kosteneffizienten Präventionsstrategien aufrechtzuerhalten.

GLAD Law zusammen mit über 60 Gemeinschaftsorganisationen, Vertretern des öffentlichen Gesundheitswesens, Wählern und Einzelpersonen vorgelegte Zeugenaussage zur Unterstützung von LD1687, „Ein Gesetz zur Klärung und Verbesserung des Zugangs zu HIV-Präventionsmedikamenten“. Dieser Gesetzentwurf baut auf das Gesetz von 2021 Dadurch erhalten Menschen PrEP und PEP direkt von einem Apotheker ohne Rezept.

LD1687 wird den Zugang zur HIV-Prävention in ganz Maine erweitern, indem es die Kostenerstattung für Apotheker regelt, es Apothekern ermöglicht, lang wirkende injizierbare Formen der PrEP zu verabreichen, und die Versicherungsdeckung der injizierbaren PrEP sicherstellt.

Spritzenserviceprogramme in Maine

Maine befindet sich aufgrund eines HIV-Ausbruchs in Bangor derzeit in einer Gesundheitskrise. Spritzenprogramme sind ein wichtiger Faktor bei der Beendigung der HIV-Epidemie. GLAD Law arbeitet in Maine daran, den Zugang zu diesen Programmen zu verbessern und die Einhaltung bewährter Verfahren sicherzustellen.

LD219 „Ein Gesetz zur Beschränkung von Austauschprogrammen für Injektionsgeräte auf einen Eins-zu-eins-Austausch“

Aktualisieren: Sieg! Am 17. April 2025 wurde LD219 im Ausschuss abgelehnt.

GLAD Law reichte eine Aussage gegen LD219 ein, ein Gesetzentwurf, der die öffentliche Gesundheit verschlechtern würde, indem er eine Eins-zu-eins-Begrenzung für Spritzenaustauschprogramme einführt. Eins-zu-eins-Nadelaustauschprogramme begrenzen die Spritzenverteilung, indem sie von den Teilnehmern verlangen, eine Nadel zurückzugeben, bevor sie eine neue erhalten. Diese Programme haben sich als weniger effektiv bei der Reduzierung der Zahl der Menschen erwiesen, die Spritzen wiederverwenden.

In seiner Aussage plädiert GLAD Law für umfassende Strategien zur Schadensminderung, darunter Aufräumaktionen in der Gemeinde, Programme zur sicheren Entsorgung und Aufklärungsinitiativen, um die Bedenken hinsichtlich Spritzenmüll auszuräumen und gleichzeitig den Bedürfnissen der öffentlichen Gesundheit Rechnung zu tragen.

LD1078 „Ein Gesetz zur Unterstützung der öffentlichen Gesundheitsziele von Maine durch Verbesserung des Zugangs zu Austauschprogrammen für Injektionsgeräte“

Aktualisieren: Sieg! Am 24. Juni 2025 wurde LD1078 Gesetz.

GLAD Law schloss sich dem Frannie Peabody Center an in Abgabe einer Aussage zur Unterstützung von LD1078, ein Gesetz, das den Zugang zu lebensrettender Versorgung durch Spritzenserviceprogramme verbessern würde. LD1078 würde es Anbietern von Spritzenserviceprogrammen ermöglichen, mit einer Lizenz an mehreren Standorten innerhalb eines Landkreises tätig zu sein. Diese Flexibilität würde den Zugang zur Versorgung verbessern, die Personalkapazität erhöhen und die Erreichbarkeit sicherer Entsorgungsstellen verbessern.

Pride Portland

Pride Portland

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Celebrate pride with GLAD Law at the Pride Portland Parade & Festival.

Pride Portland! brings people together from all over the US and beyond for an annual parade and festival in downtown Portland, Maine to celebrate and honor the accomplishments of the LGBTQ+ movement, to raise awareness of the community’s ongoing struggles, and to foster an environment of inclusivity, accessibility, and solidarity.

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St. Dominic Academy et al. gegen Makin

The state of Maine runs a program that provides state funds to support students who attend a private school when the school district where they live does not have its own high school. In 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Carson v. Makin that the program must apply to religious schools. 

Maine now requires all schools receiving public funds to abide by the educational nondiscrimination provisions of the Maine Human Rights Act. Two religious schools filed lawsuits in Maine federal district court claiming the application of the Human Rights Act provisions to them violates their free exercise of religion. The District Court denied both challenges, and the schools have appealed to the First Circuit Court of Appeals. 

GLAD Law joined with Lambda Legal on a friend-of-the-court brief to make two broad points: 1. The Carson v. Makin decision does not control in this case, and  2. Maine has compelling state interests in requiring compliance with the MHRA.

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Anwälte reagieren auf die Klage des US-Justizministeriums gegen den Bundesstaat Maine wegen Versäumnissen im verhaltensbezogenen Gesundheitssystem für Kinder in Maine

The suit comes after more than two years of negotiations between the parties

Augusta – Today, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed suit against the State of Maine based on its June 2022 findings that Maine discriminated against youth with disabilities by failing to maintain an adequate system of behavioral health services that prevent institutionalization. The lawsuit comes after settlement negotiations broke down.

“Twenty-five years after the landmark Supreme Court decision Olmstead v. L.C., which found that unnecessarily segregating people with disabilities into institutional settings violates the Americans with Disabilities Act, Maine children and their families are still waiting for a legally compliant behavioral health system. And despite calls for more than a decade to ensure the availability of those services, Maine has failed to do so. Unfortunately, this lawsuit was the necessary result of that continued failure,” said Atlee Reilly, Managing Attorney, Disability Rights Maine.

After initially receiving a complaint filed by Disability Rights Maine, the U.S. DOJ conducted a lengthy investigation and found:

  • “Maine’s community-based behavioral health system fails to provide sufficient services. As a result, hundreds of children are unnecessarily segregated in institutions each year, while other children are at serious risk of entering institutions.”
  • “Children are unable to access behavioral health services in their homes and communities—services that are part of an existing array of programs that the State advertises to families through its Medicaid program (MaineCare), but does not make available in a meaningful or timely manner.”
  • “Maine children with behavioral health needs are eligible and appropriate for the range of community-based services the State offers, but either remain in segregated settings or are at serious risk of institutionalization.”
  • “Families and children in Maine are overwhelmingly open to receiving services in integrated settings. In fact, parents indicated a strong preference that their children receive services at home due to trauma, neglect, and abuse that their children reportedly endured in residential facilities within and outside of Maine.”

Those findings should not have been a surprise to the State of Maine, which had been on clear notice of the widespread inadequacy of its community-based behavioral health system for children when a comprehensive assessment concluded, in 2018, that children’s behavioral health services were not available when needed, or not available at all. Two years later, a separate independent assessment of the juvenile justice system found that many youth are detained and incarcerated at Long Creek because they could not access appropriate community-based services for their behavioral and mental health needs.

What was true in 2018 remains true today- Maine continues to fail to ensure that children with disabilities have access to the community-based behavioral health services they need in their homes and communities. As a result, children with disabilities in Maine are unnecessarily institutionalized in residential facilities, including at Long Creek and in other residential facilities both inside and outside the state, severing their ties to family and community. This violates their right, under the Americans with Disabilities Act, to receive services in the most integrated settings appropriate to their needs.

“When kids can access treatment and support close to home, they can stay connected with their families and communities,” said ACLU of Maine Legal Director Carol Garvan. “Unfortunately, for far too long, Maine has not ensured these services. Since 2016, we have been working to address human rights violations at Long Creek, but not enough has been done. Maine must provide its kids the services they need to live healthy and safe lives.”

“Maine children with disabilities and their families deserve what the law requires, which is community-based behavioral health services. The failure to provide those services harms children, strains and fragments families, and ripples across communities. Maine can and must step up to meet its obligations with the services the law requires,” said Mary Bonauto, Senior Director at GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders. 

As the U.S. DOJ indicated in its complaint,

  • “Maine can implement reasonable modifications so that children with behavioral health disabilities can live and thrive in integrated settings instead of entering institutions to access care.”
  • “But instead of modifying its service system to prevent and resolve unnecessary segregation, Maine has prioritized expanding its institutional services.”

Read the DOJ press release.

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In Maine tritt das Shield-Gesetz in Kraft, um vor extremistischen Angriffen auf die reproduktive und geschlechtsbejahende Versorgung zu schützen

Maine joins 17 other states and Washington, D.C. in enacting proactive measure to protect providers, access to care

A new law takes effect today that seeks to shield Maine’s providers of reproductive care and health care for transgender people from attacks based on other states’ laws.

Maine joins at least 17 other states and Washington D.C. in enacting this type of law to protect medical experts who provide safe, legal, essential health care amidst a barrage of ongoing and increasing attacks on abortion and related care as well as medical care for transgender and non-binary people. 

LD 227 takes effect just months after the United States Supreme Court opined on two politically motivated cases that seek to restrict access to abortion care through medication abortion Und emergency medical care respectively. The Court has agreed to hear a case next term on whether state bans on medical care for transgender adolescents violate the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution. 

The Maine legislature passed LD 227 last spring after lawmakers endured bomb threats to their homes and the State House as well as rampant lies about abortion care, care for transgender people Und Maine’s current laws. Sixteen Attorneys General from states that have banned abortion care, health care for transgender adolescents, or both also threatened the state of Maine as elected leaders considered the measure. Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey rejected that threat as ‘meritless.’ Governor Janet Mills signed the bill into law in April. 

LD 227 is consistent with Mills’ July 2022 Durchführungsverordnung safeguarding providers and patients of reproductive care in the wake of the Dobbs Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade. It also builds on legislation passed by Maine lawmakers in June 2023 that protects reproductive health care providers from adverse actions by malpractice insurers. 

Statement from Lisa Margulies, Esq., Vice President of Public Affairs, Planned Parenthood Maine Action Fund
“Maine continues to lead the nation in protecting safe, legal, essential health care from extremist attacks.

We are grateful to Maine lawmakers who endured threats of violence, abhorrent political rhetoric and rampant lies and moved to protect safe, legal, medical care in Maine. We thank Governor Mills for signing LD 227 into law. 

This law creates a new layer of protection against extremists who want to reach beyond their own borders and interfere with Maine’s laws. It means health care providers can continue to offer critical, lifesaving reproductive and gender-affirming medical care in our state, and people who need it can continue to receive this care here. 

But let’s be clear: people opposed to abortion and medical care for transgender and nonbinary people will not stop their assaults. The goal is total control over our bodies and our futures. We must remain vigilant and ensure our elected leaders will fight for our rights and freedoms.

LD 227, like all state laws, are subject to change or even repeal based on who represents us in Augusta. With every seat in the Maine legislature up for grabs in November, we urge Mainers to vote their values at the ballot box.” 

Statement from Polly Crozier, Director of Family Advocacy, GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders 
“LD 227 ensures Maine law will govern health care in Maine, that health care decision-making can stay between patients, families, and their doctors, and that Maine providers who deliver vital care are protected. As politicians in more and more states seek to take away our ability to make important, private medical decisions for ourselves and our families, this law safeguards access to legal, standard-of-care health care. We are grateful to Maine legislators and Governor Mills for recognizing the importance of protecting dedicated health care practitioners and re-affirming the state’s commitment to reproductive freedom and equality for transgender Mainers.” 

Hintergrund 

  • Twenty-two states have enacted bans or near-total bans on abortion care.
  • At least 26 states have passed laws banning access to safe and effective medical care for transgender adolescents, and some have moved to restrict access to this care for adults. 
  • Every major medical association supports care for transgender and nonbinary people, and leading medical organizations including the Amerikanische Ärztevereinigung und die American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologist oppose government interference with reproductive health care.

LD 227 – The Facts 

131st session legislative scorecard 
A scorecard outlining how every Maine lawmaker voted on key legislation on reproductive care and related policy during the 131st legislative session can be found Hier

Schaffung von Alternativen zum Jugendstrafrecht für Jugendliche

LD1779, An Act to Prevent Youth Involvement in the Juvenile Justice System by Establishing a Strength-based, Discretionary Juvenile Needs Assessment Program, was enacted by the legislature but failed to receive needed funding. That bill would have created a paradigm shift for youth justice in Maine, shifting accountability from control and punishment to prevention. This bill would provide law enforcement discretion to refer young people in Maine to strengths-based needs assessments from the Department of Health and Human Services and pair the youth and their families with support and services rather than getting them involved with the criminal justice and carceral systems. The passage of LD1779, sponsored by Rep. Grayson Lookner, was a significant victory in attempts to reform Maine’s juvenile justice system and a new bill is sure to return to a new Legislature in advocacy led by Maine Youth Justice.

Titel IX | National

Ihre dauerhaften Rechte gemäß Titel IX

Möglicherweise haben Sie die jüngsten Nachrichten über die einstweilige Verfügung eines Bundesgerichts im Zusammenhang mit den Title-IX-Regeln des US-Bildungsministeriums und über mehrere Maßnahmen von Präsident Trump miterlebt, mit denen er versucht, die Rechte von Transgender-Studenten zu untergraben.

Folgendes bedeuten diese Entwicklungen für Sie hier in Neuengland.

Was ist Titel IX?

Title IX ist ein bahnbrechendes Bundesgesetz aus dem Jahr 1972. Es verbietet Diskriminierung aufgrund des Geschlechts in Schulen und Bildungsprogrammen, die Bundesmittel erhalten. Es war und wird weiterhin von entscheidender Bedeutung sein, um die Chancen, die faire Behandlung und die Finanzierung von Mädchen und Frauen zu verbessern. Dieses Gesetz hat auch dazu beigetragen, dass alle Menschen, einschließlich LGBTQ+-Schüler, unabhängig von Geschlecht, sexueller Orientierung, Geschlechtsidentität oder Geschlechtsausdruck gleichberechtigten Zugang zu Bildungsmöglichkeiten haben.

Was ist mit den Regeln für 2024 passiert?

Am 1. August 2024 traten neue Vorschriften des US-Bildungsministeriums (DOE) in Kraft. Darin wurde unter anderem erklärt, dass Title IX LGBTQ+-Schüler vor Diskriminierung und Belästigung schützt und Transgender-Schülern Zugang zu Toiletten und Umkleideräumen gewährt, die ihrer Geschlechtsidentität entsprechen. Diese Vorschriften änderten Title IX nicht; sie erläuterten vielmehr den Schutz, der durch den klaren Wortlaut des Gesetzes gewährt wird, und berücksichtigten die Auslegung von Title VII durch den Obersten Gerichtshof der USA, einem ähnlichen Gesetz, das geschlechtsspezifische Diskriminierung im Arbeitsverhältnis verbietet.

26 Bundesstaaten sowie mehrere Schulen und Anti-Trans-Gruppen reichten Klagen ein, um das Energieministerium an der Durchsetzung der 2024er Regeln zu hindern. Am 9. Januar 2025 blockierte ein Bundesgericht in einem dieser Verfahren die landesweite Umsetzung der 2024er Regeln. Obwohl gegen diese Anordnung Berufung eingelegt werden könnte und weitere Verfahren anhängig sind, ist es sehr wahrscheinlich, dass die neue Trump-Regierung die 2024er Regeln nicht verteidigen wird und sie somit blockiert bleiben.

Was bedeutet das für mich?

So wie die Regeln von 2024 Title IX nicht „änderten“, änderte auch die Anordnung zur Blockierung der Regeln von 2024 Title IX nicht. Title IX verbietet weiterhin Diskriminierung aufgrund des Geschlechts, wozu viele Gerichte auch Diskriminierung aufgrund der sexuellen Orientierung, der Geschlechtsidentität und des Geschlechtsausdrucks zählen. Title IX verpflichtet Schulen weiterhin, LGBTQ+-Schülern gleiche Bildungschancen zu bieten, und gibt Schülern und Eltern weiterhin die Möglichkeit, ihr Recht auf ein diskriminierungsfreies Schulumfeld wahrzunehmen.

Was bedeutet Trumps Executive Order für meine Rechte?

Am 20. Januar 2025 unterzeichnete Präsident Trump eine Executive Order, mit der er die Anerkennung zweier Geschlechter zur „Politik der Vereinigten Staaten“ machen und Transgender-Personen ihre Rechte verweigern wollte. Am 29. Januar 2025 folgte eine weitere Anordnung, die Lehrkräfte bedrohte, die die Transgender-Identität ihrer Schüler bejahen und unterstützen. Der klare Zweck dieser Anordnungen ist es, Chaos, Verwirrung und Angst zu stiften. In den Vereinigten Staaten schreibt der Kongress – nicht der Präsident – Gesetze, und die Gerichte – nicht der Präsident – legen sie aus. Die Executive Order ändert nichts an den Rechten der Schüler gemäß Title IX auf eine sichere, unterstützende Lernumgebung und eine qualitativ hochwertige Ausbildung.

Ich glaube, meine Rechte wurden verletzt. Was kann ich tun?

Alle Neuenglandstaaten verfügen über Landesgesetze zum Schutz der Rechte von LGBTQ+-Schülern an Schulen – einschließlich Transgender-Schülern – sowie über staatliche Behörden, die Verstöße gegen diese Schutzbestimmungen untersuchen und ahnden. Der Gerichtsbeschluss und die Executive Order haben keine Auswirkungen auf den Schutz durch Landesgesetze und die gesetzlichen Rechte der Schüler gemäß Title IX. Sie ändern auch nicht das Recht von Einzelpersonen, eigene private Durchsetzungsmaßnahmen einzuleiten.

GLAD Law bietet Ressourcen für LGBTQ+-Studierende in Neuengland. Weitere Informationen zu den Gesetzen in Ihrem Bundesstaat finden Sie auf unserer Website:

Wenn Sie aufgrund Ihrer sexuellen Orientierung, Geschlechtsidentität oder Ihres Geschlechtsausdrucks Mobbing oder Belästigung in der Schule erlebt haben, möchte GLAD Law von Ihnen hören. Bitte besuchen Sie diese Seite, um uns von Ihren Erfahrungen zu berichten: https://www.gladlaw.org/TitleIX-Form

Diese Seite wurde zuletzt im Februar 2025 aktualisiert.

Stolz in der Schule | National

Public schools have a responsibility to support and provide a positive environment for all students.

One way that they do this is by displaying support for LGBTQ+ students through Pride symbols and flags.

Public school administrators are legally required to provide the same rights to all students and student clubs under the Gesetz zur Gleichstellung. So, for example, if the school allows students from other clubs to hang flags or banners, the school has a legal responsibility to allow their GSA (Gender and Sexuality Alliance) to do the same.

At schools, school officials are able to create guidelines around displaying supportive flags and symbols. Just because they display supportive imagery does not mean that they also need to display offensive imagery if requested to do so. Schools do not need to worry about being forced to put up offensive banners, decorations, or other imagery.

This means schools can fly flags like the Black Lives Matter or Transgender Pride flags to show support for their students. Schools do NOT have to take down these flags, even if someone requests it as a hostile symbol.

What can schools do?

  • Keep up existing inclusive flags, signs, and posters.
  • Have school faculty meetings where school employees propose new inclusive displays.
  • Put up new inclusive displays to show support for their students.
  • Provide all student clubs with the same resources.

What should schools not do?

  • Schools should not create programs that allow private individuals to propose flag suggestions.
  • Schools should not let non-school employees put up displays.
  • Schools cannot allow only some groups of students to have clubs and exclude others.

Hochschule | National

Every student is entitled to equal educational opportunities and an environment that supports them. They also deserve to show up as and express their authentic selves, which includes having their proper name and pronouns used in classroom and administrative settings. For LGBTQ+ college students, this can prove difficult as there are no overarching policies or laws regarding name and pronoun usage at universities. Public universities often have more protections for LGBTQ+ students whereas private and religious educational institutions may follow different policies. Below you can find some information on best practices and ideas on how to best approach the subject with staff, professors, and administration. The links and resources provided were not compiled by GLAD Law and have not been vetted by GLAD Law.

Applying to LGBTQ+ Friendly Universities

Name & Pronoun Use and the Common App

Due to the Common App (a platform that allows students to use one college application to apply to several universities) asking students for their (preferred) names and pronouns, as of January 2022 over 900 universities across the US now have the ability to integrate the use of those names and pronouns, and over 200 universities directly use this information in their campus information systems.

Here you can find a list from August 2023 of The Best Colleges for LGBTQ+ Students in the US. You can also use the Campus Pride Index.

Pronoun and Name Usage on Campus

Professors using your correct name and pronouns

All students deserve to be treated with respect. One way professors can be respectful is by asking for and using students’ correct name and pronouns (even if they differ from what’s on the students’ records).

If you are being named incorrectly and misgendered here are some steps you can take to advocate for yourself:

  • Bring it up to the person misgendering or misnaming you. They may not be aware that they are doing so and might be able/willing to easily change this.
  • Share resources. You can find GLSEN’s Pronouns Guide here.
  • Start a conversation on campus and advocate for campus-wide change. Connect with Campus Pride to take their trainings and use their LGBTQ+ advocacy resources.
  • Go to the Title IX Office. Persistent, intentional misgendering is also something you can raise with the Title IX Office at your university.

Updating your preferred name and pronouns with the registrar’s office

Some universities now give students the ability to update their name and pronoun information at the registrars’ office so as to not out trans students to their professors and other campus staff. Check out this example of a policy to update for preferred (not legal) names and pronouns from Berklee College of Music.

If your school does not have such a policy and/or is refusing to allow you to update your name and pronouns through the registrar’s office, you may be able to make a Title IX complaint. Title IX protects LGBTQ+ students from discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Read more about Title IX here.

Because of FERPA protections, if you are over 18, by law you are able to update your name and pronouns at your college without that information being shared with your parents, guardians, spouse, or financial benefactors.

Advocating for correct name and pronoun usage on campus

Campus-Stolz has great advocacy trainings and resources for students.

University Policies, Best Practices, etc.

Guides for universities looking to update their practices

Below, university administration, professors, and staff can find guides on supporting LGBTQ+ students in higher education:

GLAD Law Antworten

If you’ve followed these steps and the situation has not resolved or is getting worse, please reach out to GLAD Law Antworten. Complete the online intake form at GLADLawAnswers.org, E-Mail GLADLawAnswers@gladlaw.org, oder hinterlassen Sie eine Voicemail unter 800-455-GLAD.

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