Dec. 3: Washington's I-638 takes effect. girls will need a doctor to verify their sex to play school sports.
Gender Justice League: "If there is an avenue, we will challenge this ballot measure in court."
update: Colorado passed Prop 134 too. all four states that voted on trans students passed their measures.
Prop 135, a ban on gender-related surgery for minors, passed too.
back One Colorado and ACLU of Colorado.
representation is where accountability starts. here's how to be heard by your member of Congress.
find them: house.gov / senate.gov
or call the Capitol switchboard: (202) 224-3121
the 120th Congress will be the queerest in American history. (the Equality Caucus said gayest. same energy, more of us.)
18 out LGBTQ+ members confirmed. a thread with fun facts, from their own websites:
Hungary voted 139-51 to cut the anti-LGBTQ provisions from Orbán's "child protection" law.
still on the books: no legal gender recognition, no same-sex adoption, and the assembly law used to ban Budapest Pride.
hosts post their own nights to the Events tab. we don't list anyone and we don't scrape anything. if it's on there, someone in your city put it there for you.
the lesbians are staying. so are the queer women.
2 governors, 3 members of Congress, 2 state reps, all reelected.
we're not a trend. we're the incumbents.
the ballot didn't only vote against us.
VA: voted to remove marriage ban (57%)
VT: equal protection incl. gender identity (~80%)
MO: abortion + trans care ban rejected (55%+ no)
in Ron DeSantis's Florida, voters just elected their first openly trans official: Quinnie Pérez.
"If Florida can elect a trans person, then anything is possible."
they voted on us. we got elected anyway.
first trans lawmakers in:
WA: jaelynn scott
MI: joanna whaley
AL: allison montgomery
WI: dina nina martinez-rutherford
not a fluke. a pattern.
washington voted to ban trans girls from girls' school sports.
same ballot: southeast seattle elected jaelynn scott with 87%, the first out Black trans state lawmaker elected in the country.