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Fazendo mudanças fora dos tribunais: promovendo a justiça LGBTQ+, racial e econômica

Rep. Jeff Currey, Lisa Rosenthall, Professor Doug NeJaime, advocates Stephanie and Denise, and GLAD Senior Staff Attorney Patience Crozier
Deputado Jeff Currey, Lisa Rosenthall, Professor Doug NeJaime, advogados Stephanie e Denise, e a advogada sênior da GLAD, Patience Crozier

A GLAD há muito tempo conta com toda a mistura de jurídico, político e de advocacia tambémls para construir uma sociedade justa e livre de discriminação. Para promover a igualdade racial e económica, e LGBTQ+ apenasgelo e garantir o maior impacto possível para nossas comunidades, GLAD se envolves nos tribunais e nas mesas de debate político, em casas estaduais com legisladores e defensores, e em coligações comunitárias por toda a Nova Inglaterra e além.

Em 2021 nós trabalhou em parceria com outros para avançar com projetos de lei que irão fazer a diferença na vida de Famílias, adultos e jovens LGBTQ+. Algumas dessas políticas alvo danos que os indivíduos enfrentam devido à pobreza, desigualdades raciais e preconceito anti-LGBTQ+, ou leis discriminatórias, enquanto outras estabelecem as bases para uma mudança mais amplas.

Leis de Não Discriminação: Acesso justo a Habitação e Espaços Públicos

ALEGRE defendido este ano com parceiros para passar Lei de Práticas Justas de Habitação de Rhode Island, sancionada em junho. O acesso à habitação é uma necessidade básica e crítico para uma pessoa ou saúde, estabilidade e bem-estar da família. Ainda assim, também muitas vezes, ddiscriminação atrapalha a obtenção um lugar seguro para viver. O Agir revogações Somente LGBTQ isenções na lei de Rhode Island que permitiam a discriminação com base no sexo orientação, identidade de gênero ou expressão de gênero para unidades habitacionais menores, que representam uma grande porcentagem do estoque habitacional no estado.

ALEGRE também trabalhou em coalizão para aprovar Lei relativa à saúde e segurança – Código de construção do estado, que exige banheiros de uso único em locais de atendimento públicomodificação a ser rotulada “banheiro“ em vez de restringidos por gênero. Isso não apenas protege pessoas transgênero e não binárias de danos ao usar banheiros públicos, como também melhora a acessibilidade para moradores de Rhode Island com deficiência e crianças pequenas com cuidadores de gênero diferente, além de ajudar a todos, reduzindo o tempo de espera.

Protegendo Nossas Famílias: Expansão de Parentesco e Leis de Adoção

Stephanie, Denise, and their kids in rainbow outfits at Pride
Stephanie e Denise, membros da We Care Coalition, e seus filhos

Como complemento ao contencioso, o GLAD também busca aprovar atualizado, leis abrangentes para garantir relacionamentos entre pais e filhos, independentemente de os pais serem casados ou de como a criança veio ao mundo. Essas proteções são crítico para infantil bem-estar e abordar o vulnerávelfamílias de baixa renda enfrentam leis desatualizadas e barreiras financeiras em nosso sistema atual. GLAD's trabalhar para atualizar as leis de paternidade e outras leis relacionadas à família é uma questão LGBTQ+ igualdade e uma prioridade para acesso à justiça.

A passagem desta primavera do Lei de Parentesco de Connecticut (CPA) era um anos de vitória em formação. GLAD co-liderado o Coalizão Nós nos Importamos com o professor Douglas NeJaime da Faculdade de Direito de Yale, trabalhando em estreita colaboração com os patrocinadores do projeto de lei, o deputado Jeff Currey e o senador Alex Kasser e outras partes interessadas no contas texto. Nossa coalizão defendida por compartilharindo as histórias de impactado crianças e famílias no estado da Constituição e organizar o esforço para garantir a passagem. Ffamílias e defensores celebraram o que Professor NeJaime chamado “o projeto de lei de paternidade mais abrangente aprovado até hoje,“ em uma cerimônia de assinatura em Hartford no primeiro dia do Mês do Orgulho. O CPA, que entra em vigor em 1º de janeiro de 2022, preenche lacunas na lei de Connecticut que deixavam crianças de pais LGBTQ, solteiros ou de fato vulneráveis.

A GLAD e os nossos parceiros também defenderam com sucesso uma atualização crítica do Lei de Parentesco do Maine de 2015 para ampliar o acesso ao Reconhecimento Voluntário de Parentesco para pais LGBTQIA+ e outros. reconhecimento O formulário fornece uma maneira clara, justa e simples para os pais estabelecerem sua conexão legal com a criança assim que ela nasce e protege a da família integridade e segurança. O governador Mills assinou o LD 222, Uma lei para atualizar a Lei de Parentesco do Maine, em junho.

J Shia and her kid, wearing button downs shirts and smiling
Mãe de Massachusetts e membro da Coalizão MPA J. e seu filho

Com issoEstes dois projetos de lei bem-sucedidos e atualizações em Vermont, Rhode Island, e Nova Hampshire sobre nos últimos anos, aproximadamente todos os estados da Nova Inglaterra atualizaram leis reconhecendo a diversidade de como a comunidade LGBTQ forma nossas famílias. Estamos trabalhando duro agora para aprovar o Massachusetts Lei de Parentesco deste ano. Em parceria com a Resolve New England, estamos liderando uma coalizão de mais de 50 organizações parceiras e famílias para aprovar Uma Lei Relativa à Parentesco para Promover Infantil Segurança (S 1133/H 1714). Saiba mais, compartilhe seu da família história e se envolva em www.massparentage.com.

Outra legislação pendente importante para apoiar as famílias inclui Uma Lei para Promover a Eficiência na Adoção Coparental (S 1124/H 1712) qual garantiria um processo mais simplificado para

Adoções coparentais em Massachusetts por casais LGBTQ que fazem petição para adotar seus próprios filhos, e Uma Lei para Fornecer Acesso a Cuidados de Fertilidade (LD 1539), o que tornaria a formação de famílias no Maine mais acessível para casais LGBTQ+ e todos os casais que sofrem de infertilidade, aumentando a cobertura abrangente do seguro médico para questões de diagnóstico de fertilidade. e tratamento.

Apoiando Jovens LGBTQ+: Escolas, Bem-Estar Infantil e Sistemas de Justiça Juvenil

Em junho, justice-envolvido juventude em Maine ganhou o direito a um advogado e petição para alternativas à prisão quando o governador Mills sancionou a lei LD 320, Uma lei para garantir o direito a um advogado para menores e melhorar o devido processo legal para menores em lei. A GLAD trabalhou com o patrocinador do projeto de lei, Deputado Victoria Morales, cujo distrito inclui a unidade juvenil de Long Creek, e parceiros de advocacia sobre este esforço de 3 anos para fazer necessário reformas para o sistema de justiça juvenil. A conta:

  • Estabelece uma idade mínima de doze anos para o internamento num estabelecimento correcional juvenil e prevê que as crianças mais novas não poderá ser detido por mais de Sete dias, a menos que as partes concordem
  • Acaba com o compromisso mínimo obrigatório de um ano para menores estabelecimentos correcionais
  • Exige que os juízes considerem tanto a idade do jovem como se o delito cometido seria considerado como uma contravenção se cometida por um adulto ao decidir se o encarceramento é apropriado
  • Cria oportunidades para revisões judiciais de compromissos; e nomeia advogados para jovens internados e detidos

Manter os jovens com famílias que os apoiem, conectados a recursos e fora de estabelecimentos correcionais é crucial para eles oportunidades de responsabilização e desenvolvimento para uma vida adulta saudável. A GLAD também apoiou uma iniciativa de Justiça Juvenil do Maine–levou o projeto de lei para iniciar um processo para perto de Long Creek, do Maine uma prisão juvenil restante. Enquanto issono conta não se tornou lei esta sessão, nós aplaudir MYJ's liderança em a questão. A GLAD continuará a trabalhar em parceria com eles e outros sobre mudanças estruturais em nosso sistemas de justiça juvenil, incluindo esforços para fechar Long Creek.

Também se tornou lei em junho deste ano Uma Lei Relativa à Disciplina Escolar para do Maine Filhos mais novos, qual essencialmente proíbe suspensões e expulsões de crianças na 5ª série ou abaixo e proíbe a suspensão do recesso, exceto para intervenções de justiça restaurativa. Sob a liderança da Deputada Victoria Morales e com o colaboração da Disability Rights Maine, do Maine Infantil Aliança, GLAD, e outros, esta revisão da punição medidas disciplinares pode manter as crianças envolvidas na escola e prevenir problemas no percurso entre a escola e a prisão, resultados qual impactar desproporcionalmente os alunos de cor e alunos com deficiência, incluindo aqueles que são LGBTQ+.

A GLAD e a organização parceira OUT Maine colaboraram com o Departamento de Educação do Maine em seu primeiro site LGBTQI+ para o Departamento, lançado em agosto. O site inclui recursos sobre grupos de ação estudantil, direitos estudantis, assistência médica e informações sobre saúde mental e muito mais, apoiando e sustentando ambientes de aprendizagem inclusivos e contribuindo para o sucesso dos alunos na escola e ao longo da vida.

GLAD é co-líder de um Comitê Racial e de Equidade da Lei do Maine Tribunal Força-Tarefa Justiça para Crianças para desenvolver informações precisas e apoiar políticas e intervenções sólidas. Ccom fundoing e liderança do Poder Judiciário do Maine, a Força-Tarefa iniciou um estudo de dados demográficos multiagências sobre quais dados são coletados em o Poder Judiciário e o bem-estar infantil, educação, segurança pública e correções sistemas, com um relatório final concluído até novembro de 2022.

Em Massachusetts, ALEGRE suporta Cidadãos pela Justiça Juvenil em seus esforços para aprovar Uma Lei que Melhora a Coleta de Dados da Justiça Juvenil (S 1558/H 1795). Este projeto de lei requerers coletando dados demográficos críticos em todos os estágios do sistema de justiça juvenil, incluindo idade, raça, etnia, idioma principal, identidade de gênero e orientação sexual. S 1558/H 1795 também exige um relatório anual supervisionado pelo Defensor da Criança para garantir que o estado use os recursos de forma eficiente para proteger a segurança pública e melhorar os resultados para os jovens.

Junto com outro Organizações de defesa LGBTQ+ e da juventude, ALEGRE é também avançoindo estrutural reformas nos nossos sistemas de bem-estar infantil e buscando melhorar as condições para os jovens afetados por esses sistemas.

Respeito pela nossa humanidade: Reforma da Justiça Criminal e Redução da Brutalidade Prisional

Pessoas transgênero enfrentam níveis específicos de brutalidade e assédio quando encarceradas. O GLAD tem trabalhado para lidar com esses danos por meio de litígios e políticas em sistemas prisionais em toda a Nova Inglaterra e no país. Este ano, o GLAD trabalhou com a Maine Trans Net, líderes legislativos e órgãos correcionais e policiais para elaborar um projeto de lei para melhorar as condições de saúde e segurança para pessoas transgênero quando encarceradas em cadeias e prisões. O LD 1044, que se tornou lei neste verão, exige explicitamente que o Departamento de Controle de Pessoas do Maine respeite e reconheça a identidade de gênero consistentemente mantida por uma pessoa encarcerada para colocação, independentemente de anatomia ou físico, exceto por razões significativas de gestão, segurança ou proteção. A nova lei também exige que o Departamento de Controle de Pessoas do Maine forneça os itens de programação e refeitório consistentes com a identidade de gênero de uma pessoa.

O GLAD também apoiou e elogia nossos parceiros pela aprovação bem-sucedida de projetos de lei para descriminalizar a falta de moradia e proibir a vigilância por reconhecimento facial no Maine (legislação semelhante, S 47/H 135, está pendente em Massachusetts). Estamos apoiando parceiros em Massachusetts que buscam garantir ligações telefônicas gratuitas para pessoas encarceradas (Massachusetts).  S 1559), impedir a caracterização policial de mulheres transgênero e de baixa renda, removendo as “vagabundas noturnas comuns” e as “prostitutas comuns” da lei de Massachusetts (S 992/H 1800), avançar em direção à descriminalização total do trabalho sexual (H 1867) e aprovar reformas abrangentes de saúde e segurança para pessoas LGBTQI encarceradas (S 1566/H 2484). O GLAD também apoiou um projeto de lei no Maine, agora lei, para fornecer uma defesa à prostituição por motivos de dificuldades econômicas, prevenção de lesões ou ameaças.

Vivendo a vida: Garantindo o acesso à identificação precisa

Todos nós precisamos de uma identificação precisa, e para pessoas transgênero e não binárias, é essencial para sua segurança. O GLAD continua trabalhando em toda a Nova Inglaterra para garantir que todos possam acessar um documento de identidade que reflita quem eles são, sem barreiras.

State ID illustrationEm agosto, apoiamos Rho, um Granite Stater não binário, na defesa bem-sucedida do DMV de New Hampshire remover barreiras na escolha de um marcador de gênero “X” na carteira de motorista ou documento de identidade emitido pelo estado. Agora, as pessoas não precisam mais recorrer a um profissional de saúde para atestar sua identidade de gênero não binária, o que pode ser uma barreira significativa para atualizar seu documento de identidade. Essa mudança de política também se aplica a qualquer pessoa que altere seu marcador de gênero para X, M ou F, e significa que New Hampshire se junta ao restante da Nova Inglaterra, bem como a outros estados e municípios, no processo simplificado para que as pessoas tenham um documento de identidade estadual preciso que confirme sua identidade.

No Maine, nesta sessão, GLAD consultado sobre a substância e suportado LD 209 – Lei sobre Mudanças de Nome para Menores, que esclarece e agiliza o processo pelo qual um pai ou responsável pode solicitar a mudança de nome de um filho menor, apresentando uma petição no Tribunal de Sucessões. A lei elimina a exigência de publicação do aviso de mudança de nome, permitindo a confidencialidade.. Ele define quatro fatores para consideração judicial, incluindo a menor de idade preferência expressa e o melhor interesse da criança. Também trabalhamos com parceiros da comunidade para aprovar o LD 855 – Lei relativa à emissão de certidão de nascimento após mudança de gênero, para garantir que as novas certidões de nascimento emitidas após uma mudança de nome ou de marcador de género não sejam marcadas como alteradas, uma consideração crucial para proteger a privacidade e a segurança para indivíduos transgêneros.

Em Massachusetts, estamos trabalhando com parceiros da coalizão para defender Uma Lei Relativa à Identidade de Gênero na Identificação de Massachusetts (S 2282/H 3521) e Uma lei que prevê uma designação neutra em termos de gênero em documentos e identificações estaduais (H 3126), contas que codificaria uma designação de gênero neutro (“X”) para todos os formulários e documentos de identificação de Massachusetts, incluindo certidões de nascimento.

Declarações de Impacto Racial

Uma conquista histórica na sessão legislativa do Maine de 2021 com potencial para impacto o processo legislativo e entre sistemas é a promulgação de LD 2, Uma Lei para Exigir a Inclusão de Declarações de Impacto Racial no Processo Legislativo. Concebido e patrocinado pela líder assistente da maioria na Câmara, Rachel Talbot Ross, ta lei prevê que qualquer legislação considerada no Maine talvez avaliado por seu impacto racial a pedido de qualquer legislador ou comitê. GLAD forneceu depoimento da comunidade LGBTQ em apoio ao LD 2. Com a orientação de negros, pardos, indígenas, e outros líderes e comunidades de cor, olha para o futuro para apoiando o uso desta importante e inovadora ferramenta.

Leia a edição de outono de 2021 do nosso boletim semestral, GLAD Briefs.

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Young people of various ages outside the MA capitol building holding signs saying: "Trans kids are beautiful" "black kids matter" and "support not separate" some have mobility aids, one holds a stuffed animal

LGBTQ+ youth and particularly Black, Brown, and Indigenous (BIPOC) youth are over-represented em child welfare systems, and young people impacted by these systems face increased risks of joblessness, homelessness, and interaction with the criminal legal system.

Poverty, structural racism, and anti-LGBTQ bias all play roles in determining which children and families are impacted and separated by the State. GLAD is working both to ensure our child welfare systems can meet the needs of BIPOC LGBTQ+ youth in their care and to move State approaches away from family separation and toward family supports.

No Maine, nesta sessão, GLAD suportado um conta to require the Department of Health and Human Services to provide families in need with assistance to meet basic necessities para prevent children from being removed from homes. This proposal recognizes that what is frequently labeled as “neglect” and therefore cause for family separation is simply poverty and requires the State to address that underlying cause before removing a child. While LD 396, unfortunately, did not pass this session, we’re continuindo to push for such changes so that resources are focused on supporting children and families rather than separating them.

Em Massachusetts, child welfare advocates, including GLAD, have been calling for change at the MA Department of Children and Families (DCF) for years in response para high-profile catastrophic incidents e daily failings of the youth in DCF custody.

In August, with the contributions and engagement of GLAD, the Massachusetts Commission on LGBTQ+ Youth released a report sobre the treatment and outcomes of DCF-involved children that draws a plain conclusion: LGBTQ+ youth in DCF custody are in crisis. Along with alarming findings, the report offers clear insight into improving the lives of youth already in the system, providing more support for families of origin and foster families, and training staff and other professionals on the specific and timely needs of LGBTQ+ youth.

“Life in residential care got even harder after I started identifying as a transgender woman while placed in an all-boys program. The staff misgendered me most of the time. DCF denied me [gender-affirming care]… Their rationale was that they couldn’t “risk it.” In reality, they were risking my life by not giving me the healthcare I needed.” – Youth with um history of DCF involvement

As the Commission Chair says em o introduction to the report, “the status quo for LGBTQ youth in DCF is an emergency.” LGBTQ+ youth experience the repercussions of o lack of a clear, comprehensive agency policy affirming their identities, an insufficient supply de supportive placements, inadequate training for staff and foster families, and long delays and even denials of access para necessary healthcare. These shortcomings far too often lead to poor health and educational outcomes, violence, harassment, bullying, self-harm, and other devastating impacts. And these impacts often fall most harshly on Black and Brown LGBTQ youth and transgender youth, who face multiple biases and structural barriers.

“As a foster parent to transgender young people, I have not seen that DCF is able to engage in family support work around LGBTQ issues. They are always emphasizing what the parents have not done, rather than how to help them. I don’t know how DCF thinks they are ever going to reunify families if they don’t have empathy or compassion and if they aren’t willing to educate and support the parent. Without that, their job becomes to break families apart.”–Foster Parent

GLAD and our LGBTQ+ Child Welfare Alliance partners are calling on policymakers and legislators para act immediately to improve the child welfare system com the following measures:

  • Collection and reporting of comprehensive, intersectional data that allows DCF and other responsible entities to track outcomes for LGBTQ+ youth and to understand and meet their needs better. The legislature should pass An Act Relative to Accountability for Vulnerable Children and Families (H.239/S.32) with a requirement that DCF consistently collects e report intersectional sexual orientation and gender identity data.
  • Development and implementation of a comprehensive LGBTQ+ policy and training for all adults Quem come into contact with LGBTQ+ youth, including staff, foster families, and providers. Neighboring states such as Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, and sister state agencies like DYS have such policies.
  • The legislature should pass H.211/S.88 to create an independent Foster Care Review Office to improve accountability, transparency, and oversight for the foster care review process, to strengthen protections for youth in DCF care and custody.
  • Increase and tracking of affirming placements for LGBTQ+ youth in both foster homes and group settings.
  • Improved, more timely access to gender-affirming healthcare for transgender youth.
  • Creation of a statutory foster child bill of rights with explicit protections for LGBTQ+ youth, including access to gender-affirming medical care.

“Ultimately, it took nearly two years to get my child the care she needed. Bias and transphobia from multiple professionals involved in the child welfare system hindered the process. Foster parents do not receive training on this. Can you imagine what happens to a child who ends up in a home where the foster parent does not already know all of this?” – Foster Parent

The findings of the Commission’s report are dire, but our advocacy is working. O momentum is building, e um new gender-affirming care policy goes into effect sobre September 30. Later in the fall, GLAD Senior Staff Attorney Patience Crozier is moderating a series of trainings in collaboration with Child Protection and Child Services on better serving transgender youth and other LGBTQ+ people. There is much to do, but we are working harder than ever to directly impact young people’s treatment and lives in state custody. To get involved, visit GLAD.org/mass-alliance.

 

Leia a edição de outono de 2021 do nosso boletim semestral, GLAD Briefs.

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Across the country during the 2021 legislative session, transgender people ter faced a cruel onslaught of legislation that undermines their civil rights, attempts to exclude them from public life, and even criminalize their identities.

Lawmakers in a handful of states are proposing extreme bills that ban safe, well-recognized medical care for transgender children. In some cases, such bills provide criminal penalties for physicians Quem provide such care. In others, parents could be punished as well. Arkansas is the only state to have enacted a medical care ban to date – over the veto of Republican Governor Asa Hutchinson, Quem chastised the legislature for the extreme nature of the legislation – but we have not seen the end of such attempts. Denying access to established medical care is cruel and unethical, e it puts transgender youth at increased risk. Em Arkansas, there have already been reports of youth suicides resulting from this extreme law. Some families are planning to move out of state.

Other damaging bills aimed at transgender youth seek to ban transgender girls from playing school sports with other girls. Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Mississippi, Montana, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, and West Virginia have already enacted laws that ban transgender girls and young women from playing sports at school. These bans deny transgender kids the camaraderie and belonging that comes with being part of a team e valuable lessons like sportsmanship and discipline.

Defeating anti-trans bills in New England

New England is not immune to such dangerous legislative proposals. Transgender and allied umdvocates, ALEGRE attorneys, and our partner organizations, showed up at hearings and defendido against several anti-trans bills in the 2020-2021 session.

Both New Hampshire and Maine saw sports ban bills raised – Maine’s LD 926 and New Hampshire’s HB 198. By listening and responding to concerns, deploying thoughtful advocacy, sharing accurate Informação, e telling powerful life stories from courageous transgender young people, their parents, classmates, and coaches, GLAD and our partners successfully kept both bills from passing.

Another bill in Maine, LD 1238, would have allowed shelters to exclude transgender women. Both chambers voted the bill down com broad support from shelter providers themselves. And New Hampshire’s conta banning gender-affirming healthcare for trans youth was voted down in Committee, ending its progress for this session.

GLAD is keeping a watchful eye on anti-LGBTQ+ legislative developments across the country. In Tennessee, lawmakers enacted several anti-LGBTQ+ laws this year. GLAD has filed a lawsuit, Curb Records v. Lee, against one of those laws, first-of-its-kind legislation requiring businesses to post a “not welcome” sign for transgender patrons and employees on their premises.

A lawsuit to protect businesses who affirm transgender people

The Curb Foundation provided fundraising for the National Museum of African American Music
The Curb Foundation provided fundraising for the National Museum of African American Music

Tennessee’s HB 1182 requires businesses to post a demeaning notice on their premises if they have policies allowing access for transgender individuals on an equal basis to other patrons.

The law designates precise dimensions, coloring, and language que effectively amounts to a “not welcome” sign that promotes a hostile climate for transgender and non-binary people in the state e denies them equal access to businesses open to the public. GLAD filed a lawsuit challenging the new law in Curb Records v. Lee, along with Sherrard Roe Voigt & Harbison, attorney Abby Rubenfeld, e the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR).

The plaintiffs in the case are Grammy award-winning record producer Mike Curb, his label Curb Records, and the Mike Curb Foundation. They collectively argue that the law compels them and other Tennessee businesses to endorse a climate of fear and nonacceptance of transgender and non-binary people. Such a mandate directly contradicts their company values of integrity, respect for diversity, and nondiscrimination.“It’s outrageous to have the government come in and force me to send such a derogatory message to my employees and customers,” Mike Curb said when the law went into effect.

Mike Curb identifies his personal connection to the need for acceptance with his grandmother Eloisa Salazar’s experience with discrimination as she grew up on the Mexico-US border: “her experience shaped my family’s and my company’s values.”Curb has been committed para the values of nondiscrimination and inclusion for LGBTQ+ people throughout his career. His company and organization have provided grants and gifts to further access to education, historic preservation, people experiencing homelessness, and many other endeavors in his community. “It is hard to believe that our LGBT community in Tennessee is being assaulted with so much harmful legislation,” Curb says, “at a time when our country needs to come together more than ever before.”

A federal district court issued a preliminary injunction in a second challenge to the law, filed by the ACLU, ordering that HB 1182not be enforced while the courts ultimately determine o law’s constitutionality. GLAD and our partners são moving forward with our challenge para ensure that the state does not force Curb Records e other affirming businesses to act against their values and businesses interests, and that transgender e non-binary Tennesseans can access public spaces on the same terms as anyone else. Mike Curb and our team hope to get a final ruling by sometime next summer. To be the first to learn when a decision is delivered, sign up for our email updates on GLAD.org.

 

Leia a edição de outono de 2021 do nosso boletim semestral, GLAD Briefs.

Statement on the Confirmation of Justice Beth Robinson to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Statement of GLAD Civil Rights Project Director Mary L. Bonauto on the confirmation of Vermont Supreme Court Justice Beth Robinson to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit:

“Justice Robinson’s deep commitments to the rule of law and to equal justice under law – bar none – will make her a remarkable asset to our federal judiciary and our society. As both a litigator and a Vermont Supreme Court Justice, she knows that law is entwined with people’s lives and has the integrity and humility to see both. Her confirmation as the first openly lesbian judge to serve on a U.S. Court of Appeals is  another pivotal moment for a remarkable person and for our country, one that hopefully signals a welcome expansion of wider representation on our nation’s high courts.”

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The movement for transgender equality has made incredible advances over the past 40 years (and beyond), opening doors, pushing against barriers, and persisting in the face of personal risk and political backlash. Now, as another round of vicious attacks on transgender rights spreads throughout the country, a new generation is rising up to meet the challenge and demand justice in resourceful and innovative ways.

This virtual roundtable celebrated advocacy across generations and explore where we’ve been, where we are, and what’s next in the movement for transgender rights.

Featuring:

  • Kylar Broadus, Founder of the Trans People of Color Coalition
  • Grace Sterling Stowell, Executive Director of BAGLY
  • Tre’Andre Valentine, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition
  • Julián Cancino, Director of the Gender and Sexuality Center at Brandeis University
  • Lane, youth activist
  • Leo Austin-Spooner, youth activist

Moderated by Jennifer Levi, GLAD Transgender Rights Project Director

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Justice Across Generations: A Celebration of 4+ Decades of Transgender Rights Advocacy

The movement for transgender equality has made incredible advances over the past 40 years (and beyond), opening doors, pushing against barriers, and persisting in the face of personal risk and political backlash. Now, as another round of vicious attacks on transgender rights spreads throughout the country, a new generation is rising up to meet the challenge and demand justice in resourceful and innovative ways.

This virtual roundtable will celebrate advocacy across generations and explore where we’ve been, where we are, and what’s next in the movement for transgender rights.

Featuring:

    • Kylar Broadus, GLAD’s 2021 Spirit of Justice Honoree and founder of the Trans People of Color Coalition
    • Grace Sterling-Stowell, Executive Director of BAGLY
    • Tre’Andre Valentine, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition
    • Julián Cancino, Director of the Gender and Sexuality Center at Brandeis University
    • Lane, youth activist
    • Leo Austin-Spooner, Co-Chair of BAGLY’s Youth Leadership Committee

Moderated by Jennifer Levi, GLAD Transgender Rights Project Director.

ASL and captioning available.

Register to join the event!

If you have questions, please contact Caitlin Walsh at cwalsh@glad.org.

Maine Virtual Weekend of Action

Join the Weekend of Action to support federal protections for LGBTQ+ people!

O HRC’s Weekend of Action is a great opportunity to make a difference and help pass the Equality Act! This historic federal legislation would update and improve our nation’s civil rights laws by including explicit protections for LGBTQ people, as well as women, people of color, immigrants, and people of all faiths.

What: Make calls to supportive Mainers to ask them to contact elected officials about supporting the Equality Act when it comes up for a vote in the Senate.

Quando: Saturday, October 9 and Sunday, October 10. Shifts are available both days from 10am-12pm and 6pm-8pm EST.

Onde: Wherever you are! You don’t have to live in Maine to participate – we welcome everybody who believes in equality, no matter where you live.

Training will be available at the start of every shift to ensure you feel prepared and informed.

Click to sign up button

Everyone deserves a fair chance to live free from the fear of harassment or discrimination. Thank you for helping us seize this critical moment to pass the Equality Act. Click here to learn more about the bill and find more ways to get involved.

Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization

ATUALIZAR: On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court overturned federal abortion protections. Learn more about the decision and its devastating consequences:

Mississippi’s abortion ban is unconstitutional. Reproductive rights are human rights.

GLAD partnered with the National Center for LGBTQ Rights to write and file a friend-of-the-court brief submitted on behalf of 23 LGBTQ organizations urging the Supreme Court to protect access to abortion, uphold the precedent established in Roe v. Wade e Planned Parenthood v. Casey, and avoid a ruling that would exacerbate the subordination of women.

The brief cautions the Court to consider both the extreme rarity and the dangerous, widespread consequences of overturning long-held equality and fundamental rights jurisprudence. It also lays out the catastrophic real-world impact overturning Roe e Casey would have on LGBTQ people.

While not discussed widely, members of our community are more likely to experience unintended pregnancies as a result of sexual violence, more likely to lack insurance, and more likely to face widespread discrimination in the health care system, including in access to contraception. Restrictions on abortion access put already vulnerable individuals, including sexual minority women, at heightened risk for higher rates of poverty, domestic violence, and negative health outcomes.

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case on December 1, 2021 and we expect a decision by June 2022.

The brief was signed by:

  • Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom
  • Council for Global Equality
  • Equality California
  • Equality Federation
  • Equality North Carolina
  • Igualdade Familiar
  • GLBTQ Legal Advocates and Defenders
  • Campanha de Direitos Humanos
  • LPAC Action Network
  • Centro Mazzoni
  • Minority Veterans of America
  • Projeto de Avanço do Movimento
  • Centro Nacional para os Direitos LGBTQ
  • Centro Nacional para a Igualdade Transgênero
  • National Equality Action Team
  • The National LGBTQ+ Bar Association
  • Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States
  • Centro de Direito Transgênero
  • Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc.
  • U.S. People Living With HIV Caucus
  • The Whitman-Walker Institute
  • Evan Wolfson, Founder, Freedom to Marry
  • The Woodhull Freedom Foundation

Blogue

This Latinx Heritage Month, we are honoring some of the many incredible Latinx activists and organizations whose fight for justice and equality has made a lasting impact in our communities.

Dolores Huerta

Dolores Huerta (she/her) is one of the most influential labor activists of the 20th century and a great leader of the Chicano Civil Rights movement. Her career began in 1955 when she co-founded the Stockton chapter of the Community Service Organization (CSO), which led voter registration drives and fought for economic improvements for Latinx people. In 1962, Dolores and Cesar Chaves founded the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA), which soon transformed into the United Farm Workers’ Union (UFW). The UFW and Dolores’ countless boycotts led to the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act of 1975, which allowed farmworkers to form unions and bargain for better wages and conditions.

Dolores became the first Latina introduced into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in 1993. She then went on to found the Dolores Huerta Foundation in 2002. The Dolores Huerta Foundation’s purpose is to increase understanding that women’s rights, LGBTQ+ rights, immigrant rights, labor rights, and civil rights are all interconnected universal human rights issues. In 2012, former President Obama awarded Dolores the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her lifetime of advocacy. It was only fitting that Dolores received this award from Obama since he adapted her slogan, “Sí, se puede” as his motto, “yes we can.” Dolores also received the Ripple of Hope Award from the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights in 2020. She continues to be an outspoken advocate for world peace and the rights of immigrants, women, minorities, at-risk youth, and the LGBTQ+ community.

Wilson Cruz

Wilson Cruz (he/him) is an advocate for LGBTQ+ youth of color, a member of the board of GLSEN and trailblazing actor. Wilson is known for his groundbreaking roles on television, such as his 1994 role as gay teen Rickie Vasquez on the ABC series “My So-Called Life.” Wilson served on the board of directors and then staff of GLAAD from 1997 to 2012. Wilson dedicates his time to building support for LGBTQ+ youth in Puerto Rico and from Latinx backgrounds. Due to his broadly impactful activism and support of LGBTQ+ organizations, Wilson has received the Emery S. Hetrick Award from the Hetrick-Martin Institution for outstanding contributions to LGBTQ+ youth and beyond. Wilson continues to boldly make TV history in his current role as Dr. Hugh Culber on Star Trek: Discovery as one of the first openly gay characters in the franchise.

MJ Rodriguez

MJ Rodriguez (she/her) is an actor and an advocate for the Black and Latinx transgender community. She has opened doors for transgender artists and continues to advocate by speaking up and emphasizing the importance of media representation of the LGBTQ+ community, especially for trans people of color. MJ is best known for her role as Blanca in the hit FX show “POSE,” which has broken many visibility barriers. MJ made history as the first trans woman to be nominated for a lead acting Emmy and the first openly trans woman to win Best Actress for Television at the Imagen Awards in 2019. In 2020 she was named the Advocate’s “Woman of the Year” to honor her boundary-breaking performances and her dedication to activism.

Aiden Thomas

Aiden Thomas (he/they) is a nonbinary, transgender author who advocates fiercely for diverse representation in all media. Aiden was the first openly trans author on the New York Times bestseller fiction list with Cemetery Boys, which climbed to 8th place for Young Adult Hardcover books. Cemetery Boys brings rare visibility to the unique vulnerabilities of youth who have overlapping social identities, with representation of queerness and transness within Latinx families and culture.

Iván Espinoza Madrigal

Iván Espinoza Madrigal (he/him) is the Executive Director of Lawyers for Civil Rights. He advises federal and state policymakers on the legal needs of people who have identities that range across sexual orientation, gender identity, race, and immigration status. Before joining Lawyers for Civil Rights, Iván was the Legal Director of the Center for HIV Law and Policy (CHLP). His advocacy centered HIV as an issue impacted by racial justice, immigration, criminal justice, and public health. Before he worked at CHLP, Iván was a staff attorney at Lambda Legal where he developed an initiative that addresses the legal needs of LGBTQ+ and people of color and low-income people living with HIV and worked on the marriage equality fight at the state and Supreme court levels.

In recognition of Iván’s important contributions, the Boston Business Journal profiled him as an “Emerging Leader Fighting for Justice” in 2015. Iván has a community-driven model to his work that has led to dozens of law-changing cases on behalf of people of color and immigrants.

Mijente

Mijente is a Massachusetts-based organization that advocates for Latinx and Indigenous liberation and fights for racial, economic, climate, and gender justice. Created in 2015 after the #Not1MoreDeportation campaign, Mijente recognized that society needed to come together and stand up to the ongoing threats against the Latinx community. Mijente’s mission centers BIPOC and LGBTQ+ people, understanding that unity against shared oppression is essential in creating change and achieving justice.

In 2020, Mijente helped organize a petition that led to the Nashville LGBTQ Chamber of Commerce divesting completely from its ties with CoreCivic, a private prison corporation with strong links to ICE and other unethical business practices.

Hyde Square Task Force

Hyde Square Task Force is an organization that supports Latinx youth and encourages them to learn, grow, and achieve academically. HSTF’s education aims to equip youth to advocate for themselves and build an equitable Boston. Hyde Square Task Force was created in the 1980s from a partnership between neighbors and leaders to address the ongoing violence facing the Hyde/Jackson neighborhood of Jamaica Plain, MA. From then on, HSTF became an organization that values itself on ensuring that Boston’s Latin Quarter continues to grow as a diverse hub of Afro-Latin arts and a sustainable home for Greater Boston’s Latinx community.

Hyde Square Task Force’s Youth in Action (Jóvenes en Acción) program, alongside their various College Success, Creative Development, and Community Engagement programs, encourage youth to contribute to and learn from working in partnerships with neighbors in the Latin Quarter through Afro-Latin arts and advocacy.

Hispanic Health Council

The Hispanic Health Council is a Connecticut-based organization focused on improving Latinx health and access to healthcare and promoting equity for other vulnerable communities through research, advocacy, and culturally competent services. The organization prioritizes addressing the cultural and linguistic barriers between the Latinx community and the healthcare system, which results in health disparities. In the 1980s, the Hispanic Health Council was a leader in HIV/AIDS knowledge and a pioneer in the concept of needle exchange. The Hispanic Health Council uses system and policy advocacy to impact the multitude of barriers to optimal health experienced by Spanish-speaking communities and to guarantee that all people have access to high-quality medical care. They have worked continuously to empower the Latinx community and strengthen their impact on policy.

Notícias

GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) announced today that its 2021 Spirit of Justice Award will go to Kylar W. Broadus, Esq. GLAD will present the award to Broadus at the 22nd Annual Spirit of Justice Award Dinner on October 21, 2021.

After a virtual Spirit of Justice in 2020, GLAD’s annual dinner and award gala returns to Boston at a new venue, the Boston Park Plaza. Those outside Massachusetts or otherwise unable to attend in person will also be able watch a livestream of the program online.

Close-up of Kylar Broadus in navy suit with a blue shirt and tie, serious expression, looking directly into the camera.Honoree Kylar Broadus is a trailblazing transgender rights pioneer. A Black trans man, attorney, author, professor, and founder of the Trans People of Color Coalition, his legal expertise and advocacy have advanced civil rights for transgender people over decades. Kylar, who currently sits on the board of the National Black Justice Coalition, has made substantial contributions to the work of nearly every national LGBTQ rights organization, including the National LGBTQ Task Force, Freedom for All Americans, the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and GLAD. He has published essential essays on transgender employment and family legal rights in Direitos Transgêneros e Transgender Family Law (the latter co-edited by GLAD Transgender Rights Project Director Jennifer Levi) and has consulted on major federal civil rights legislation, including the Matthew Shephard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Act and the Employment Nondiscrimination Act (now the Equality Act), for which he was the first out transgender person to testify before the U.S. Senate in 2012. Kylar’s impact on the evolution of employment nondiscrimination law was recognized by President Barack Obama when he was invited to join the President at the 2014 signing of an executive order extending protections to LGBTQ federal employees.

“Kylar’s fingerprints are on nearly all aspects of the work done to advance legal rights for transgender people throughout the country,” said Jennifer Levi, Diretora do Projeto de Direitos Transgêneros da GLAD. “His legal insight, activism, and willingness to boldly speak truth with compassion has made a tremendous difference in the lives of transgender people everywhere. I couldn’t be more thrilled that GLAD is honoring him with the extremely well-deserved Spirit of Justice award.”

“It is wonderful to be honored by my friends at GLAD, an organization whose groundbreaking work I admire and value so highly,” said Broadus. “GLAD’s work has for decades advanced and protected LGBTQ people’s ability to live without fear of harassment, seek work and economic opportunity free from discrimination, and access healthcare and other critical, life-saving services. We need that advocacy now more than ever. That I’ve had so many opportunities to proudly partner with GLAD in this important work makes receiving this award all the more meaningful.”

In addition to the presentation of the Spirit of Justice award to Broadus, the event will feature remarks from GLAD Senior Staff Attorney Polly Crozier and from transgender youth advocate Ashton Mota and his mother, Carmen Paulino. Hailing from Lowell, Massachusetts, Ashton is a passionate and well-respected young voice on transgender equality. He courageously shared his story during the Yes on 3 campaign to defend nondiscrimination protections in Massachusetts in 2018 and spoke at a White House Pride month event earlier this year, where he also introduced President Biden. Ashton’s mother, Carmen, is a fierce advocate for her son as well as for transgender youth impacted by the foster care system.

“Following an extraordinarily difficult year for everyone, we look forward to safely reconnecting as a community at October’s Spirit of Justice event,” said Janson Wu, GLAD Executive Director. “Kylar Broadus, Ashton Mota, and Carmen Paulino are incredible leaders in the ongoing fight for racial, economic, and LGBTQ justice. It’s an honor to have the opportunity to celebrate their inspiring work, and to do so among a community of supporters who have demonstrated over and over again in this challenging year their dedication to creating a more fair and just society for all.”

Previous Spirit of Justice honorees include Grace Sterling Stowell, Chai Feldblum, Jose Antonio Vargas, the Honorable Eric H. Holder Jr, Phill Wilson, Jennifer Finney Boylan, Urvashi Vaid, Margaret J. Marshall, Deval Patrick and his family; Reverend Irene Monroe; Bishop Gene Robinson; Beth Robinson, John Ward, Terrence McNally, Mandy Carter; Reverend William Sinkford, Tim Gill, Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, Tony Kushner, Laurence Tribe, and Mary L. Bonauto.

About the Event

GLAD’s 22nd Annual Spirit of Justice Award Dinner is chaired by Annika Bockius-Suwyn and Ray Cheng and will take place Thursday, October 21 at the Boston Park Plaza. The evening’s program will also be streamed from the venue for those who are unable to attend in person. The venue is mobility accessible and CART interpretation services are provided. GLAD is following state and federal guidance regarding COVID. More details, including updated COVID protocols as well as tickets and sponsorships for both the in-person dinner and the virtual event are available at www.gladlaw.org/soj.

ATUALIZAR:
Watch Kylar’s powerful acceptance speech from the 22nd Annual Spirit of Justice Award Dinner

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