Family Equality joins a broad coalition of 110 organizations in asking lawmakers to reject bills from dozens of states seeking to ban transgender youth from school sports and access to medical care
Washington, D.C. – Family Equality stands together with 110 civil rights and legal groups, organizations for women and girls, medical associations, and proponents of equality for all Americans to oppose harmful anti-transgender bills at the state level. Signers include expert organizations such as American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, American Association of University Women, Family Equality, Girls Inc., Girls on the Run International, GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBTQ Equality, National Black Justice Coalition, New Ways Ministry, Pediatric Endocrine Society, Union for Reform Judaism, Women’s Sports Foundation, and more.
By Bryant Furlow, New Mexico In Depth and ProPublica |
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Jordan Blair Woods, law professor and Faculty Director of the Richard B. Atkinson LGBTQ Law & Policy Program at the University of Arkansas School of Lw, Fayetteville, discusses Arkansas s new law targeting key services needed Arkansas transgender youth.
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