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Today the Department of Education issued widely anticipated proposed regulations clarifying that Title IX’s prohibition against sex discrimination in education protect against sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination. The announcement of the new proposed rule comes as the country celebrates the 50th anniversary of Title IX of the Education of Amendments of 1972, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any school or education program that receives funding from the federal government.

“We celebrate and welcome the proposed regulatory updates issued today by the Department of Education making clear that Title IX protections extend to LGBTQ students,” said Jennifer Levi, Transgender Rights Project Director at GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD). “These regulations provide vital clarity and reinforce important protections that LGBTQ young people need to thrive. Transgender young people are especially vulnerable to bullying, harassment and violence in school settings because of escalating state legislative attacks. The proposed rules issued today by the Department of Education send an important message to LGBTQ students and their families that federal law protects them. As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Title IX’s passage, these welcome revisions fortify the promise that federally-funded educational institutions will ensure equal educational opportunities for all students.”

“These proposed regulations demonstrate a strong commitment to protecting educational opportunities for all students including LGBTQ students,” added GLAD Executive Director Janson Wu. “Especially in light of ongoing state legislative attacks, we are grateful for the Administration’s strong support of LGBTQ youth.”

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Today, President Biden signed an Executive Order Advancing Equality for LGBTQI+ Individuals, enacting a range of measures to protect LGBTQ+ youth, families, seniors and other vulnerable members of the LGBTQ+ community.

Among its key provisions, the executive order seeks to protect LGBTQ+ youth and families from the effects of more than 300 anti-LGBTQ+ state laws targeting access to medical care and support at school for transgender youth; protect children from the harmful and discredited practice of “conversion therapy,” safeguard LGBTQ+ health care and programs to prevent record high youth suicides; and support LGBTQ+ children and families with a new initiative to protect foster youth, prevent homelessness and improve access to federal programs. The order also strengthens supports for LGBTQ+ older adults and promotes expanded federal data collection on sexual orientation and gender identity.

The following statement is from GLAD Executive Director Janson Wu:

This executive order is an important step toward ensuring that LGBTQ+ Americans can freely access health care, equal educational opportunities, housing, and other basic needs at a time when our rights are being attacked and undermined in state legislatures nationwide. We are grateful to have a President who is committed to LGBTQ+ equality.

President Biden’s initiative to reduce the risk of youth exposure to the dangerous and discredited practice of “conversion therapy” is particularly important as it, along with other disrespect of young people’s identities, is linked to higher rates of suicide attempts and adverse mental health effects. While many states have banned conversion therapy, LGBTQ youth continue to be subjected to it—and right-wing lawmakers have sought to overturn the bans. In New Hampshire for instance, GLAD led a coalition that worked to prevent the legislature from overturning a state law outlawing conversion therapy.

As GLAD continues litigation against Alabama’s law criminalizing parents for obtaining essential health care for their transgender children—one of many such initiatives passed or pending in various states—we’re pleased that President Biden has directed the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to release sample policies for states to expand access to health care for LGBTQ+ patients and specifically work with states to promote expanded access to gender-affirming care.

Finally, we applaud President Biden’s efforts to specifically recognize and address the needs of older LGBTQ+ Americans, who are particularly vulnerable due to fewer family supports, and the cumulative effects of stress related to decades of discrimination and stigma. GLAD recently settled a discrimination complaint on behalf of Marie King, a transgender woman who was denied a room at an assisted living facility, and we welcome the executive order’s directive that HHS publish new guidance on the non-discrimination protections for older adults in long-term care settings.

Read the President’s full order, learn more about GLAD’s litigation and advocacy, e support our tireless work for LGBTQ+ equality,

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GLAD has been advancing equality for LGBTQ+ families for more than four decades, and today on LGBTQ Families Day we want to celebrate our wins as well as acknowledge the challenges we still face. We achieved a landmark victory with the 2015 Supreme Court decision that affirmed marriage equality for the entire country. But there are still many gaps in protections for our relationships, so our work continues.

A major initiative that GLAD has been working on for years is ensuring that the laws that provide legal security for our children include the children of LGBTQ+ parents and all families. People form loving families in many ways, and we must ensure that the law recognizes and respects all of them.

J. Shia and her son

Still vulnerable are the children of same-gender couples, as are children born through assisted reproduction, surrogacy, and more. They also include de facto parents like J. Shia, who raised her son from the day of his birth but still doesn’t have a secure legal tie to him even twelve years later.

We have successfully advocated for comprehensive parentage reform to be implemented in five of the six New England states – leaving only Massachusetts with outdated parentage laws. To join the work to get the MA Parentage Act passed, visit MassParentage.com.

The fight to protect our families is now taking on a different urgency, as the onslaught of anti-LGBTQ+ attacks continues in the form of legislation across the country. These vicious attacks are aimed at LGBTQ+ youth, especially transgender youth, including stripping away parents’ ability to affirm their transgender children and get them the healthcare they need.

GLAD is committed to fighting against these attacks, in New England and beyond. I am thrilled to share that in Massachusetts the MA Senate just successfully passed an amendment to its version of the state budget which includes protections for providers in Massachusetts who provide essential medical care for transgender youth from out of state. The amendment protects doctors, psychologists, nurses, physician assistants, pharmacists, and social workers who provide care to youth experiencing gender dysphoria from potential abusive lawsuits originating from other states. We will continue working to ensure this amendment is adopted in the final budget and signed by Governor Baker.

We are also challenging harmful anti-transgender legislation where it is being implemented, as with our recent lawsuit in Alabama, Reverend Eknes-Tucker v. Marshall. Alabama’s SB 184 criminalizes parents for obtaining essential medical care for their transgender children, as well as any provider for offering such evidence-based care. Thankfully, a federal judge granted our motion to block the law as our challenge continues, enabling families to continue accessing life-saving healthcare for their kids until we can hopefully overturn it for good.

So today, on the first day of Pride Month and LGBTQ Families Day, share the story of your family – however it was formed. I hope you are inspired by other families that are sharing with the #LGBTQFamiliesDay hashtag on your social network of choice. Sharing, connecting, and visibility are just a few of the strengths of our community. And this Pride season, I am so proud of our community, all we have accomplished, and all we will accomplish together.

#LGBTQFamiliesDay post to celebrate and support LGBTQ+ people and their families.

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As Governor Polis is set to sign the “Donor-conceived Persons and Families of Donor-conceived Persons Protection Act,” advocates commended the state’s thoughtful approach to providing people conceived via assisted reproduction access to important donor information and praised the signing last week of legislation advancing legal parentage protections for Colorado families formed via assisted reproduction          

May 31, 2022, DENVER, Colo. — Today Governor Jared Polis is expected to sign SB22-224, the “Donor-conceived Persons and Families of Donor-conceived Persons Protection Act,” legislation that takes a balanced approach to allowing people conceived via assisted reproduction access to limited important donor information. This follows the governor’s signing last week of “Marlo’s Law,” HB 22-1153, which enables LGBTQ parents who create families through assisted reproduction to more equitably establish their parentage, providing greater legal security for Colorado children.

The LGBTQ advocacy organizations COLAGEM, Igualdade Familiar, GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (ALEGRE) and the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) submitted testimony in support of two key provisions in SB22-224:

  • a provision consistent with the Uniform Parentage Act of 2017 giving individuals of any age who were born through assisted reproduction using unknown donor gametes (“donor-conceived persons”) access to non-identifying medical information of their gamete donor; and
  • allowing donor-conceived persons over age 18 access to identifying information of their gamete donor beginning in 2025.

LGBTQ people build loving families in many different ways, and a significant number rely on assisted reproduction and egg, sperm, and embryo donation. LGBTQ parents, like so many parents, plan thoughtfully to build their families and can experience barriers and discrimination in family building and securing their children legally. COLAGE, Family Equality, GLAD and NCLR commended SB22-224’s thoughtful approach to allowing access to important donor information while maintaining safeguards to ensure that assisted reproduction, including gamete donation, remains accessible, affordable, and provided in a nondiscriminatory and inclusive way.

The organizations also stressed the importance that legislation like SB22-224 be adopted in conjunction with parentage legislation that provides legal security and recognition for families formed through assisted reproduction and praised Governor Polis for signing HB 22-115 last week. “Marlo’s Law” streamlines the process for confirmatory adoptions, ensures that Colorado’s parentage laws are gender neutral and explicitly inclusive of LGBTQ families, makes parentage presumptions gender-inclusive, expands access to establishing parentage through a Voluntary Acknowledgement of Parentage to intended parents through assisted reproduction, and makes Colorado’s assisted reproduction provisions gender and marital status neutral so that if you consent to assisted reproduction you are a parent to the resulting child.

The organizations issued the following statements:

Jordan Budd, Diretor Executivo, COLAGE:
“We’re thankful that Governor Polis and Colorado lawmakers are thinking broadly about the importance of protecting families by enacting both H.B. 22-1153 and SB22-224 this session. Together these new laws will provide increased legal security and access to important donor medical information for families formed through assisted reproduction. As an organization dedicated to supporting people with LGBTQ parents, we know that children come into families in many different ways. We are pleased to see Colorado make such big strides in providing protections for LGBTQ families and for all children and families in the state.”

Shelbi Day, Diretora de Políticas, Igualdade Familiar:
“Children and adults who were conceived through gamete donation and their families are a multi-faceted community and we were pleased to see so many different stakeholders brought to the table in the development of SB22-224. Among the LGBTQ+ parents and intended parents in the Family Equality community there is a commitment to openness and honesty with their children about the circumstances of their birth through assisted reproduction. We support the structure that SB22-224 will provide for open and honest communication about family origins, and applaud Governor Polis for signing it this session alongside legislation that ensures Colorado’s parentage laws include LGBTQ+ people who form their family using assisted reproduction.”

Patience Crozier, Advogada Sênior, GLAD:
“We commend Governor Polis and the legislature for ensuring that all parent-child relationships and families are protected under Colorado law and for encouraging openness for donor-conceived people. H.B. 22-1153, signed into law last week, ensures that the children of LGBTQ parents are fully protected under state parentage law – protections that are crucial to children’s security and well-being. Legislation regarding family building raises many important issues and involves numerous stakeholders, including children and their parents. We applaud the thoughtful approach taken in Colorado to encourage openness for donor-conceived people while at the same time guarding against discrimination or increased barriers in family building and, importantly, ensuring legal security and recognition for families formed through assisted reproduction.”

Cathy Sakimura, Diretora Adjunta e Diretora de Direito de Família, NCLR:
“We applaud Governor Polis for signing SB22-224 together with HB 22-1153 this session to ensure both that donor-conceived persons have access to important information and that parent-child relationships in LGBTQ families are protected under the law. Many LGBTQ families are formed using donated sperm or eggs from unknown donors. Information about the medical histories of those donors and, once a child is an adult, the identity of donors, should be accessible to families who wish to know, while also safeguarding the privacy of families and protecting the recognition of families in every way they are formed. Laws addressing the release of information about sperm and egg donors must be passed alongside laws that respect families who are formed using assisted reproduction. We applaud Colorado for considering all of these important issues and passing SB22-224 along with HB22-1153 to expand protections for families formed through assisted reproduction.”

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New Law Strengthens Protections for LGBTQ Families; Pending Massachusetts Parentage Act Would do the Same

May 25, 2022 — On Monday, May 23, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed into law House Bill 22-1153, which enables LGBTQ parents who create families through assisted reproduction (AR) to more equitably establish their parentage, providing greater legal security for Colorado children. In addition to streamlining the process for confirmatory adoptions, the bill does the following to ensure that Colorado’s parentage laws are gender neutral and explicitly inclusive of LGBTQ families:
  • updates terms such as “paternity,” “father” and “mother” to be gender-neutral,
  • makes parentage presumptions gender-inclusive,
  • expands access to establishing parentage through a Voluntary Acknowledgement of Parentage to intended parents through AR, and
  • makes Colorado’s AR provisions gender and marital status neutral so that if you consent to AR you are a parent to the resulting child.
The following statement should be attributed to Patience Crozier, GLAD Senior Staff Attorney: “With the signing of this law, Colorado is ensuring that the children of LGBTQ parents are fully protected under state parentage law, regardless of the circumstances of their birth. These protections are crucial to children’s security and well-being, especially in times of crisis. By updating their parentage statutes to be gender inclusive and marital status neutral, Colorado has made sure that all families are protected equally under the law, and that is cause for celebration. “We hope the Massachusetts Legislature follows suit and passes the Massachusetts Parentage Act, a bipartisan bill to provide comprehensive parentage protections for the Commonwealth’s LGBTQ families—and many others—no matter how they are created. Love makes families—and our laws must protect them.”

Statement on Racist Mass Shooting in Buffalo, NY

This past weekend’s mass shooting targeting Black Americans at a grocery store in a Black neighborhood of Buffalo, NY marks the deadliest mass shooting in the U.S. this year and joins the growing list of tragic and hate-based mass shootings in recent years. For the families and friends of the 10 people who were shot and killed – parents, family members, a retired police officer, a devoted church parishioner – there is little we can do collectively to ease their suffering and loss, other than to bear witness to their pain and honor those killed.

But for all Americans, and especially Black Americans who have been targeted by racist violence in our country, we can and we must raise our collective voices to drown out the voices of hate. It is our moral responsibility that we are never silent in the face of hate.

Finally, we can and we must hold accountable those who purvey hate for profit and political gain. Those include elected officials like U.S. Representative Elise Stefanik, who has echoed replacement theory conspiracy theories in campaign ads, and far-right pundits like Fox New host Tucker Carlson, who has made millions of dollars bringing dangerous and dark fringe movements into the mainstream.

GLAD will continue to join in fighting hateful rhetoric and theories that do nothing but divide us as Americans and target people of color and historically marginalized communities.

Stopping the spread of white supremacist violence in our society will not bring this weekend’s victims back, but it can prevent future tragedies from occurring. Let us all take this opportunity to recommit to our shared responsibility to work toward justice and with it peace.

We grieve in solidarity and send our sincere condolences to the entire Buffalo, NY community.

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GLAD joins with our entire community in mourning the loss of Urvashi Vaid, a beloved member of the GLAD family and a visionary, kind, and fearless activist. We send all our love to her partner, Kate Clinton, to their family, and to the many, many people across the globe whose lives she touched.

Throughout her four decades as a leader, community organizer, writer, and civil rights attorney, Urvashi embodied an absolute commitment to the recognition and enhancement of the dignity of every person.

She has left a lasting legacy on every part of our LGBTQ movement and on nearly every LGBTQ organization in the U.S. and beyond, including GLAD. In her early organizing as a part of Boston’s LGBTQ community in the 1980s, Urvashi worked at Gay Community News, co-founded the Boston Lesbian & Gay Political Alliance and served as one of GLAD’s first staffers while a law student at Northeastern University School of Law.

As GLAD’s long-time legal director Gary Buseck said in presenting her with the 2014 Spirit of Justice Award: “Urvashi reminds us that our work is never done; that there are laurels, but not to be rested on; and that we need only to open our eyes to see so many who remain in need of the liberation we profess to seek.”

In sorrow and gratitude, may Urvashi’s legacy inspire us to continue seeking liberation for all.

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During Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we are celebrating LGBTQ2S+ artists and advocates whose creativity and commitment to visibility, truth, and community has made–and continues to make–a powerful impact in our communities.

 

Truong Tran

Truong Tran (he/him) is a visual artist and writer who has been honored and nominated for numerous awards, such as The Poetry Center Prize, The Fund for Poetry Grant, and more. Truong currently teaches at Mills College, in Oakland, California. The intersection of his identities as a Vietnamese American, immigrant, person of color, and gay man – are central throughout his literature and art. In an interview with The Pen Ten, Truong explains his personal truths: “I have a responsibility to write about [American] histories as it informs the ways I move through the world. It is a shared responsibility. In this way, writing holds the consciousness of my complicated identity.” Truong writes and makes art out of necessity, so as to prevent other people from illustrating, or not illustrating, his narrative for him.

 

Lehuauakea

Lehuauakea (they/them) is a māhū (third gender) mixed-Native Hawaiian artist from the Big Island and a graduate of the Pacific Northwest College of Art. Their work explores cultural ecologies within the context of environmental degradation through media such as ohe kāpala (carved bamboo printing tools), kapa (bark cloth), and natural pigments. Lehuauakea’s upbringing was filled with indigenous practices and handicraft traditions that fuel their art. For example, kapa is a cloth used for clothing and bedding; newborn babies are born into kapa, and the remains of people who have passed away are buried in the cloth. Lehuauakea’s laborious art process materializes the intimate narratives and resiliency of them, their community, and their ancestors.

 

Ka-Man Tse

Ka-Man Tse (she/her) is a queer photographer whose work has been exhibited in her native Hong Kong and the US. Her project “narrow distances” is composed of ​​portraits of Hong Kong’s LGBTQ2S+ community, which is her inherited and chosen family. The book is composed of photographs from a 14-year period (2004-2018); the various portraits serve the purpose of centering people who are often marginalized and positioning them so that they occupy space. Ka-Man describes her work process as one that involves “re-visiting, re-imagining, collaboration and long-engagement within a framework of care and community.” She inspires unique creative processes from her students too – Ka-Man has lectured at Yale University and Cooper Union, and now holds professorship at the Parsons School of Design in New York City.

 

Ora Lin

Ora Lin (they/them) is a Chinese American YouTuber and self-taught sewist. Their welcoming tutorials guide viewers through historical sewing projects and techniques, interspersed with occasional contemporary designs. Many  of Ora’s videos provide social commentary on the interconnectedness of identity and intersectionality with fashion, costuming, and culture. Their recent Youtube video demonstrates how to sew a Regency dress – a 19th century long ankle length dress, with a high empire waistline, resting just under the bust – and is interspersed with commentary on how the hit Netflix series Bridgerton does the bare minimum in terms of inclusion and representation. In Ora’s own words::

“As it is, Bridgerton is already “progressive” as far as what media is pushing. Currently, it’s capitalism, it’s white supremacy. You can’t really expect anything different. I wish we could.”

 

Tamara Ching

Tamara Ching (she/her) is a long-time Chinese Hawaiian activist who advocates for LGBTQ2S+ communities in San Francisco. She became active in San Francisco’s sex work and drag scenes in the 1960s and is now a “Mommy” in her Asian transgender community. Tamara’s work continues as she fights for protections for transgender people in San Francisco, HIV prevention, and education within the community. In an interview for the Stanford Pride Oral History Project, Tamara describes her upbringing with absent parents, abusive siblings, and racial harassment at school. Despite these early hardships, she found success and a sense of autonomy through sex work, and eventually, administrative roles under the federal government. Tamara’s activism in the 1980s led her to be the first and only person to receive a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to support immigrant transgender sex workers. Her extensive advocacy continues to leave a lasting mark on San Francisco’s LGBTQ2S+ community.

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A legislação que fornece acesso importante às informações sobre doadores deve necessariamente reconhecer que muitas pessoas constroem famílias amorosas por meio da reprodução assistida e deve ser promulgada juntamente com a legislação que garante a proteção legal da paternidade para essas crianças e famílias.

11 de maio de 2022, DENVER, Colorado — Na terça-feira, a Legislatura do Colorado aprovou SB22-224, a “Lei de Proteção de Pessoas e Famílias de Pessoas Concebidas por Doadores”, por votação unânime no Senado e 53-12 na Câmara. As organizações de defesa LGBTQ COLAGE, Family Equality, GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) e o National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) apresentaram depoimentos durante uma audiência do comitê do Senado realizada em 26 de abril e uma audiência do comitê da Câmara realizada em 5 de maio em apoio a duas disposições principais do projeto de lei: 1) dar a indivíduos de qualquer idade que nasceram por meio de reprodução assistida usando gametas de doadores desconhecidos (“pessoas concebidas por doadores”) acesso a informações médicas não identificáveis de seu doador de gametas e 2) permitir que pessoas concebidas por doadores maiores de 18 anos tenham acesso a informações de identificação de seu doador de gametas. A legislação referente à construção familiar necessariamente levanta muitos interesses e questões importantes e envolve inúmeras partes interessadas, incluindo crianças e seus pais. Pessoas LGBTQ constroem famílias amorosas de muitas maneiras diferentes, e um número significativo depende da reprodução assistida e da doação de óvulos, espermatozoides e embriões. Pais LGBTQ, como muitos outros, planejam cuidadosamente a construção de suas famílias e podem enfrentar barreiras e discriminação na construção familiar e na proteção legal de seus filhos. O SB22-224 é um passo importante, pois o Colorado continua trabalhando para garantir que pessoas concebidas por doação tenham acesso a informações importantes e que as relações entre pais e filhos em famílias LGBTQ sejam protegidas por lei. As organizações elogiaram a abordagem cuidadosa do projeto de lei para permitir o acesso a informações importantes sobre doadores, mantendo salvaguardas para garantir que a reprodução assistida, incluindo a doação de gametas, permaneça acessível, acessível e fornecida de forma não discriminatória e inclusiva. Os especialistas em direito parental, Courtney Joslin, Professora de Direito Martin Luther King Jr. na Faculdade de Direito da Universidade da Califórnia-Davis; e Douglas NeJaime, Professor de Direito Anne Ursowky na Faculdade de Direito de Yale, também apresentaram depoimentos em apoio ao SB22-224. O depoimento de Joslin e NeJaime enfatizou a importância de que leis como a SB22-224 sejam adotadas em conjunto com leis sobre paternidade, como a HB 22-1153, aprovada no início desta sessão, que proporciona segurança jurídica e reconhecimento às famílias formadas por meio de reprodução assistida. A SB22-224 agora segue para a mesa do governador Jared Polis. As organizações emitiram as seguintes declarações sobre a aprovação do SB22-224: Jordan Budd, Diretor Executivo, COLAGE: Como uma organização dedicada a apoiar pessoas com pais LGBTQIA+, sabemos que as crianças entram para as famílias de muitas maneiras diferentes. Muitos pais LGBTQIA+ constroem famílias por meio da reprodução assistida, incluindo a doação de gametas, e essas crianças e famílias precisam e merecem proteção legal. A SB22-224 reconhece a importância de garantir que as famílias possam acessar informações médicas não identificáveis sobre doadores, que podem ajudar a embasar decisões críticas sobre cuidados de saúde, ao mesmo tempo em que oferece a opção para indivíduos adultos concebidos por doação que desejam obter informações de identificação sobre um doador de gametas, se assim o desejarem. Somos gratos aos legisladores do Colorado por estarem pensando amplamente sobre a importância de proteger as famílias e avançando na SB22-224, juntamente com a HB 22-1153, que proporcionará maior segurança jurídica para famílias formadas por meio da reprodução assistida. Shelbi Day, Diretora de Políticas, Igualdade Familiar: Crianças e adultos concebidos por meio de doação de gametas e suas famílias constituem uma comunidade diversa e multifacetada. Como uma organização nacional que representa famílias LGBTQ+ e aqueles que desejam constituí-las, sabemos que, para os pais LGBTQ+ dessa comunidade, existe um compromisso com a franqueza e a honestidade com seus filhos sobre as circunstâncias de seu nascimento por meio de reprodução assistida e gametas doados. Apoiamos a estrutura que a SB22-224 cria para uma comunicação aberta e honesta sobre as origens familiares e aplaudimos a legislatura do Colorado por aprovar o HB 22-1153 para atualizar a lei de paternidade do Colorado para incluir pessoas LGBTQ+ que constituírem família por meio de reprodução assistida. Patience Crozier, Advogada Sênior, GLAD: Temos o prazer de ver a Assembleia Legislativa trabalhando para garantir que todas as relações entre pais e filhos e suas famílias sejam protegidas pela lei do Colorado e para incentivar a abertura para pessoas concebidas por doação. No início desta sessão, a Assembleia Legislativa apresentou um projeto de lei separado, o HB 22-1153, para atualizar a lei de paternidade do Colorado para incluir pais LGBTQIA+ e garantir segurança jurídica para famílias formadas por meio de reprodução assistida. As disposições do SB22-224 para que pessoas concebidas por doação e suas famílias acessem informações médicas não identificáveis sobre seu doador de gametas são consistentes com o modelo. Lei de Parentesco Uniforme de 2017, que a GLAD apoia há muito tempo, e a disposição que prevê a liberação da identidade aos 18 anos representa um passo importante para muitas pessoas concebidas por doação e suas famílias. Esperamos que o Governador Polis sancione ambos os projetos de lei rapidamente.” Cathy Sakimura, Diretora Adjunta e Diretora de Direito de Família, NCLR: Muitas famílias LGBTQIA+ são formadas a partir de esperma ou óvulos doados por doadores desconhecidos. Informações sobre o histórico médico desses doadores e, quando a criança se tornar adulta, a identidade dos doadores, devem ser acessíveis às famílias que desejarem saber, salvaguardando-se, ao mesmo tempo, a privacidade das famílias e o reconhecimento das famílias em todas as suas formas de constituição. Leis que abordem a divulgação de informações sobre doadores de esperma e óvulos devem ser aprovadas em conjunto com leis que respeitem as famílias formadas por meio da reprodução assistida. Aplaudimos o Colorado por considerar todas essas questões importantes e aprovar o projeto de lei SB22-224, juntamente com outro projeto de lei, o HB22-1153, que amplia as proteções para famílias formadas por meio da reprodução assistida.   Saiba mais sobre COLAGEM, Igualdade Familiar, Advogados e defensores jurídicos GLBTQ, e o Centro Nacional para os Direitos Lésbicos. Saiba mais sobre o Lei de Parentesco Uniforme e esforços de igualdade familiar em toda a Nova Inglaterra.

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Many of us ended our night or woke up this morning to the bombshell of a circulated draft Supreme Court opinion that would upend a nearly 50-year-old precedent protecting access to abortion in the United States.

This was a draft and not a final ruling from the Court. Access to abortion remains the law of the land at this time.

But there is no doubt that if the final ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health is anything like the draft circulated, it will cause catastrophic harm to people nationwide. We are in solidarity with all those who are shocked and stunned by the reality that a majority of the Supreme Court has seemingly voted to turn back the clock on reproductive rights.

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If the constitutional right to access abortion is stripped away, it would revive bans in at least half the states. That denial of access to abortion healthcare will fall disproportionately on low-income people and people of color, including LGBTQ people who are at least as likely as others to need access to abortion. Such a ruling is not normal. There is no reason to upend a settled precedent giving people, rather than the government, control of how they live their lives.

Speculation has also brewed about the Court dismantling other rights, including watershed Supreme Court rulings that eliminated laws criminalizing same-gender intimacy and affirmed marriage equality. We will fight to ensure these victories remain the law of the land, and we will prevail.

But let’s be clear. Right now, LGBTQ people, and particularly transgender people, are facing an onslaught of horrific state measures across the country, including “Don’t Say Gay” bills and measures to deny transgender youth life-affirming support. 

In fact, GLAD is in federal court in Alabama this week fighting for our families there, to ensure parents of transgender children and their doctors are not put in prison for helping them access the lifesaving medical care they need.

We are fighting to protect LGBTQ parents and families by passing updated, inclusive parentage laws like the Lei de Parentesco de Massachusetts so that children and families are protected in MA and wherever they go.

We are fighting anti-transgender bills in state legislatures throughout New England, including right now in New Hampshire and Rhode Island.

We are fighting to expand access to reproductive and abortion health care by supporting efforts to repeal the ban on state funding of abortion care in Rhode Island.

We are fighting to protect LGBTQ-affirming school policies and fighting against laws that restrict what students can learn and talk about at school or that undermine inclusive school climates that are critical to student success.

GLAD has been in the fight for equality for our community for over four decades, including leading the fight for the freedom to marry and to build our families as we choose.

With your support, we will contest any threat to our hard-won rights and we are determined to prevail.

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