On National Coming Out Day, check your state for anti-trans legislation at translegislation.com Learn about the measures from groups like glaad.org or the hrc.org. If you’re uncomfortable or feel uninformed, click through for starting points.
Authoritarians test new protocols on groups we’re ambivalent about. If we go along, they expand the program, and then you have to explain why it was okay for one group, but not another. Reducing your own bias is resistance work, so learn more about transgender people. Now linked : another study showing no advantage in sports one year into hormone therapy.
LGBTQ teen suicide rates track with support: just one support person can reduce risk significantly. Amid an escalating war on transgender Americans the Trevor Project’s anti-suicide work is more important than ever. Please consider a donation.
