From our inbox: Action alert from MomsRising.org The national debate about gun violence and gun policy reform rests on an understanding of the Second Amendment shaped by the NRA and other pro-gun extremists. Their definition asserts that the right to bear arms is – and always has been – a bedrock Constitutional right that guarantees…
FACT: There are close to two-hundred anti-LGBTQ bills in state legislatures across the country that are currently under consideration. 93 of those bills directly target the lives of transgender and gender-nonconforming people (those whose gender identity does not align with their sex assigned at birth). [1]
It’s only April, yet already in 2021 more than thirty states have introduced anti-trans laws that endanger the lives of trans youth. Idaho, Tennessee, South Carolina, and South Dakota proposed anti-trans bills that would prevent transgender students from participating in girls sports teams in middle and high school [2]; North Carolina lawmakers introduced a bill last week that would prohibit gender-affirming surgeries to youth up to 21 years of age [3]. And, unbelievably, Arkansas recently