Pride is for Everyone

Photo by Levi Saunders on Unsplash

With #PrideMonth coming to a close, and most of the celebrations, protests, and parties concluded, we don’t want to miss the chance to talk about LGBTQI (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans*, Queer, and Intersex) rights. Today we’ll focus on recent state and national-level actions that restrict the rights, and endanger the safety, of trans* people. 

*Why do we write trans with an asterisk? You might notice some of the sites listed below use the asterisk and some don’t. As with any group finding its public voice, terminology in the trans* community is in flux. So, if you are in doubt about terminology, just ask a friend or the Internet.

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Health Care: Never Gonna Give It Up

It’s crunch time on health care. The Senate may vote as soon as this Thursday on a cruel, monstrous bill that will defund Medicaid (leaving our grandparents without the nursing home care they need), cost 15 million people their health insurance next year alone, and make sure a newborn with a heart condition would be left to die if his family couldn’t pay millions of dollars for surgery. Like Smokey says, only you can prevent forest fires.

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One Nation Under Guns

There are a dozen different reasons we could call for more gun control: the US’s regular mass shootings, the numbers of young children who are shot or have access to unsecured guns every year, the loopholes in the background check process, and the threats to women whose abusers have guns. So while the shooting of Congressman Steve Scalise is fresh in our minds, the impetus for this email isn’t one shocking event but a steady background drumbeat of gun violence that we live with every day.

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