改善缅因州获得 PrEP 的途径

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胜利！ 2021 年 6 月 18 日，州长珍妮特·米尔斯签署了一项法案，旨在扩大一种简单、安全、有效的药物的使用范围，这种药物被称为艾滋病毒暴露前预防 (PrEP)，可将艾滋病毒传播的风险降低近 100%。阅读我们的声明.

改善艾滋病预防药物获取途径的法案 （LD 1115）将扩大获得一种称为艾滋病毒暴露前预防药物（PrEP)。PrEP 是我们预防 HIV 传播和终结 HIV 流行的最有效工具。

该法案授权药剂师短期内无需处方即可配发PrEP药物。这将使包括农村社区在内的最弱势群体能够快速获得PrEP；消除符合联邦指令的PrEP成本障碍；并通过要求药剂师将顾客与医疗保健机构联系起来，以持续监督PrEP并满足其他重要的健康需求，从而改善医疗服务的可及性。

在一份社区立场声明中，超过 30 个组织、倡导者和医疗专业人士解释了扩大 PrEP 获取渠道的影响：

简而言之，HIV暴露前预防 (PrEP) 是 HIV 预防领域的颠覆性举措；它是一种简单、安全的每日服用药片，可将 HIV 传播风险降低近 100%。对于我们当中最脆弱的群体，包括有色人种、居住在农村地区的人群、被监禁的人群以及努力保持安全的注射毒品人群，通过任何简单易得的途径以低成本或免费获得这种药物至关重要。然而，一系列因素导致这种特殊药物的利用率严重不足。这些因素包括：与同性恋或双性恋者、男男性行为者以及静脉注射毒品相关的污名化；害怕或不信任与医生谈论自己的危险行为；以及社区和护理人员普遍缺乏关于药物可及性、药物费用和依从性方案的教育。HIV暴露后预防 (PEP) 是一种同样重要且必要的药物干预措施，应在潜在 HIV 暴露后立即进行，包括在性侵犯情况下。

我们需要竭尽全力扩大PrEP/PEP的可及性，并创造更多途径来减少HIV传播。这项法案是一种创新、简单且有效的方法，它(1)开始减少人们在获取PrEP/PEP方面面临的重大障碍，(2)使高危人群能够快速安全地获得这些药物。最后，这项法案还提供了一个额外的工具，通过要求参与的药剂师作为寻求此类治疗的个人与初级保健提供者之间的联系点和转介点，解决了HIV高危人群医疗保健可及性和护理联系的系统性问题。

阅读完整声明（PDF）。
阅读 GLAD 的证词（PDF）。
从 CDC 了解更多关于 PrEP 的信息.
从 CDC 了解更多关于 PEP 的信息.

Extending Shelter Access for Young People in Maine

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Update: On June 8, 2021, An Act To Ensure the Safety of Children Experiencing Homelessness by Extending Shelter Placement Periods (LD 81) was signed into law.

While youth across all backgrounds can experience homelessness, LGBTQ youth and youth of color (particularly Native American and Black youth) are more likely to become homeless. By updating Maine’s definition of certain children’s shelters, LD 81 and LD 1076 will allow our most vulnerable young people to lengthen their stay at shelters. This means young people experiencing homelessness will have more time to get the support they need with a safe place to eat and sleep.

On April 8, 2021, GLAD Civil Rights Project Director Mary Bonauto delivered testimony about the bills to the Joint Standing Committee on Health and Human Services. Read her testimony 支持 An Act To Ensure the Safety of Children Experiencing Homelessness by Extending Shelter Placement Periods (LD 81) and An Act To Support the Operations of Youth Shelters in Maine (LD 1076).

Implementing Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Training for Educators

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On April 5, 2021, GLAD Civil Rights Project Director Mary Bonauto delivered testimony in support of LD 633, a Resolve Directing the Maine Department of Education to Implement Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Training for Educators, and LD 880, An Act to Prohibit School Employees from Workplace Bullying.

As the National Association of Elementary School Principals has explained, “Ninety-six percent of major employers say it is ‘important’ that employees be comfortable working with colleagues, customers, and/or clients from diverse cultural backgrounds. These statistics make it imperative that our nation’s schools not only welcome diversity in the classroom but also teach students how to navigate an increasingly racially, ethnically, and socioeconomically diverse society and global economy.”

To those ends, LD 633 assists school staff by ensuring they continue building knowledge and cultural competencies to engage and foster success for all of their students and to increase students’ abilities to cooperate across differences. This bill would direct the Department of Education (MDOE) and the State Board of Education to amend their rules to require diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”) training as a condition of recertification for teachers and some administrative staff. LD 880 supports school employees as they teach and support our children and young people by adding “school employees” to those protected by the existing anti-bullying law, and also adding a prohibition against interfering with their work performance or their ability to participate in work-related school activities.

Read Mary’s full testimony here.

Protecting Due Process for Youth in Maine

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LD 320, An Act To Provide the Right to Counsel for Juveniles and Improve Due Process for Juveniles, will provide youth with both the right to counsel and improved due process rights. These rights, guaranteed to adults, help protect our youth and lower recidivism and crime.

Update 6/25/2021: Governor Mills signed LD 320 into law. Read GLAD’s statement.

This bill is designed to guarantee young people the protection of an attorney in their corner. With LGBTQ youth overrepresented in juvenile detention facilities, their unique mental and physical health struggles can go overlooked. While many youth in the state of Maine today have no real representation, this bill would ensure that young people are not overcharged and overbooked. Length of stay remains an issue, as does simply processing through the cases.

Prison is simply not a productive environment for young people and has measurable detrimental consequences. It is in everyone’s interest not to overlook our youth, and to make sure they are getting the support they need. GLAD is happy to join numerous other organizations to endorse the passage of this bill.

Read testimony from GLAD Civil Rights Project Director Mary Bonauto.

View legislation and full testimony from other groups on the legislation webpage.

确保跨性别女孩能够参加缅因州的学校体育运动

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跨性别女孩应该享有充分接受所有教育的机会，包括参加女子运动队。

LD 926 法案将禁止跨性别女孩参加学校体育运动。当我们告诉跨性别女孩她们不能参加女子体育运动时，这实际上传递了一种有害的信息：她们不属于这里。

了解更多关于为什么保护所有青少年（包括跨性别青少年）获得各领域教育课程和福利至关重要，请阅读阅读我们的声明.

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联系方式：
Gia Drew，EqualityMaine，207-423-0580，gdrew@equalitymaine.org
Quinn Gormley，缅因州 TransNet，207-832-1719，quinn@mainetransnet.org

2021年3月8日（奥古斯塔）——缅因州倡导LGBTQ青年福祉的民权和社区组织正在公开反对针对跨性别女孩的拟议立法。由众议员贝丝·奥康纳提出的LD 926法案试图通过禁止跨性别女孩和年轻女性参加小学、中学和大专院校的体育运动来限制她们获得公平教育的机会。该法案还要求对任何被错误地排除在女子或女子运动队之外的女孩或年轻女性进行侵入性和有辱人格的体检。

作为缅因州人，我们都希望学校体育运动公平，但这项法案并不公平，它对年轻人有害。该法案不仅会因为某些女孩和年轻女性的身份而剥夺她们重要的发展机会，还会让任何想要挑战这种剥夺的女孩接受窥探和侵犯隐私的体检。

说 Gia Drew，EqualityMaine 项目总监.

跨性别女孩渴望获得体育运动的机会，原因与所有女孩一样——成为团队的一员，获得归属感。体育运动帮助年轻人培养领导力、自尊心和团队合作等重要品质。当我们告诉跨性别女孩她们不能参加女子体育运动时，她们就错过了这段重要的童年经历。

说 Quinn Gormley，MaineTransNet执行董事.

“这项法案是误导性的，有害的。禁止跨性别女孩参加女子体育运动的做法，会损害她们的心理健康、身体健康，以及获得与其他学生同等教育机会的能力。所有儿童，包括跨性别儿童，都属于缅因州。”

说 缅因州美国公民自由联盟政策主管梅根·斯威 (Meagan Sway)

“我们可以既公平地对待女孩，又让所有女孩都能参与体育运动。让年轻人通过参与体育运动来发展和成长，这对她们、对她们的未来，以及我们所有人的未来都有好处。这就是我们在缅因州取得的成就。”

说 Mary L. Bonauto，GLBTQ 法律倡导者和捍卫者组织民权项目主任

缅因州平等组织 致力于通过政治行动、社区组织、教育和合作，确保缅因州女同性恋、男同性恋、双性恋和变性人的完全平等。 万维网。平等缅因州网站

缅因州运输网络 支持并帮助变性人创造一个他们可以茁壮成长的世界。 www.mainetrans.net

缅因州美国公民自由联盟 缅因州是缅因州自由的守护者。它活跃于法院、立法机构和公共领域，捍卫宪法和权利法案，并向所有缅因州居民兑现其承诺。 www.aclumaine.org

通过战略诉讼、公共政策倡导和教育， GLBTQ 法律倡导者和捍卫者 致力于在新英格兰和全国范围内创建一个没有基于性别认同和表达、艾滋病毒状况和性取向的歧视的公正社会。

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To Prevent Children Being Removed from Parental Custody on the Basis of Low Income

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Update: On March 30, 2021, The Maine legislature voted LD 396 Ought Not to Pass. We continue our advocacy for children in low-income families so they are connected to resources instead of being separated from their parents.

On March 2, 2021, Civil Rights Project Director Mary L. Bonauto submitted testimony supporting LD 396, “An Act To Require the Department of Health and Human Services To Provide Assistance with Applications for Basic Necessities To Prevent Children Being Removed from Parental Custody.”

This legislation addresses the inequity of a system that removes children from their families due to lower income levels instead of providing support. Current policy disproportionately affects Black and Brown families in Maine due to poverty rates being higher among African American, followed by Latinx, Asian American, and Indigenous residents. This bill would help families access existing programs to improve stability, stay together, and prevent needless trauma caused by separation.

Read Mary Bonauto’s full testimony here.

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Our commitment to LGBTQ youth means we work with youth from all walks of life, as individuals and in families, and in the state and local “systems” of education, child welfare, and juvenile justice. Civil Rights Project Director Mary Bonauto served on the Maine Juvenile Justice Re-investment Task Force in 2019-20. The Task Force’s Final Report showed the strong connections between incarceration and previous school suspensions (or “push out”) and past child welfare findings about children experiencing harm. Young people in the juvenile criminal system are disproportionately youth of color and LGBTQ.

Further, the biennial health survey of Maine youth shows that LGBTQ youth are still more likely to feel unsupported at home, to be bullied at school, to contemplate suicide, and to use drugs and alcohol than their non-LGBTQ peers. Even though young people are resilient, rejection from families and system involvement disrupt childhood, impede development, and create higher risk of mental and behavioral health challenges, homelessness, and adult incarceration.

In the past six months, we have been on the ground in the Maine legislature and in policy settings, working with young people and many adult allies to bring basic reforms to the juvenile system to encourage diversion, end incarceration for the purpose of “supervision” of a youth who has nowhere to go, to shorten sentences, and bring more due process into the system by assigning youth lawyers who can petition for less restrictive alternatives. We are also supporting both legislative and COVID-19-driven collaborative efforts to remove young people from Maine’s youth prison and into the community with the safety and supports everyone needs.

Among many other initiatives, we also continue our Maine work addressing school policing and advocacy for restorative justice, supporting the youth led-campaign to close the Long Creek juvenile detention center, advocating for LGBTQ-competent policy changes to state agencies and on data collection, and service on the Justice for Children Task Force, convened by the State Supreme Judicial Court. The city of Portland made a landmark decision in June to remove school resource officers, thus removing police officers from public school campuses. You can read Mary Bonauto’s testimony supporting this important development 这里.

点击这里了解更多信息并阅读 2020 年夏季完整版 GLAD Briefs。

GLAD heralds streamlined process for amending gender designation on Maine birth certificates

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Today a new Maine Department of Health and Human Services rule went into effect that removes unnecessary barriers to amending gender markers on birth certificates, and makes available the option of choosing an X marker.

The new rule allows individuals over 18 and emancipated minors to obtain an updated birth record with their appropriate gender marker via a notarized attestation, without the requirement of a medical affidavit or court order. The rule also provides for the option of an X marker, allowing for more accurate records for individuals who do not identify as exclusively female or male, including those who may identify as nonbinary or intersex. Parents or legal guardians of minor children can request an updated birth record for their child by submitting a notarized attestation combined with certification from a licensed medical or mental health care provider.

“This is an important development for people across Maine who simply want to live their lives as who they are and avoid the barriers created legally and socially from inaccurate gender markers on official identification,” said Mary L. Bonauto, Civil Rights Project Director at GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD). “Birth records are a critically important means for personal identification. The change to a simpler administrative process for amending gender markers and the inclusion of an X marker to recognize a range of gender identities are both in line with the approach taken in a growing number of states, as well as other Maine agencies including the Bureau of Motor Vehicles. These changes also reflect the recommendations of authoritative medical and other professionals, including the American Medical Association, American Psychiatric Association, American Psychological Association and the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, who understand that diverse gender identities and expressions are normal and positive variations of human experience.”

The roll out of the finalized rule follows a process that included a public hearing in March and a public comment period this spring, in which GLAD participated, and will apply to amending gender markers on other important records including marriage and death certificates.

Individuals seeking additional information or assistance in amending gender markers on identification documents are encouraged to reach out to the ID项目, operated by GLAD, Ropes & Gray and Goodwin. The ID Project pairs transgender individuals across New England with attorneys offering free and confidential assistance with gender marker and name changes.

Read GLAD’s public comment on the rule.

Click here for more on the ID Project.

Reforming Maine’s Juvenile Justice System

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2/27/2020: GLAD Civil Rights Project Director Mary L Bonauto submitted testimony in support of LR 3255, An Act to Implement the Recommendations of the Juvenile Justice System Advisory Assessment and Reinvestment Task Force. This bill would require several measures to safeguard the health and welfare of young people in Maine’s Juvenile justice system, including:

Ending the practice of detaining young people “because there is no parent or other suitable person willing and able to supervise and care for the juvenile” by repealing 15 MRSA §3203, §4 (C)(2).
Reducing the number of detained and committed youth in the juvenile justice system according to specified benchmarks
Requiring participation with the Maine Juvenile Justice Systems Advisory Assessment & Reinvestment Taskforce in efforts to redirect youth into community-based justice services instead of detention and incarceration
Providing annual reporting by the Department of Corrections through 2024 on specific efforts, successes and challenges, numbers and outcomes and other metrics

Mary Bonauto said in her testimony, “As a member of the Maine Juvenile Justice Systems Advisory Assessment & Reinvestment Taskforce, I am pleased to see this bill take steps forward on some of the priorities identified in the Maine Juvenile Justice System Assessment (2020) that came from that process.”

Mary’s full testimony can be found 这里.

The Maine Juvenile Justice System Assessment report is 这里.

Read the full text of LR 3255 这里.