The trans community is facing a crisis in Arkansas.
Yesterday afternoon, the Arkansas legislature passed HB 1570, a bill that would strip trans youth of their health care.
The Governor of Arkansas must veto the bill when it reaches his desk.
This bill is catastrophic.
It cuts off trans people from health care that:
✔️ We need to survive
✔️ Every major medical association supports
✔️ Allows us to live as our true and authentic selves
Stopping this bill is necessary to defend and protect the lives of trans people.
Every trans and non-binary person deserves access to gender affirming health care, no matter where we live or what type of health insurance we have.
Join us in mobilizing and stopping HB 1570 so that we can maintain and defend our health care.
Tell Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson to veto this bill:
☎️ 501-682-2345
📧 asa.hutchinson@governor.arkansas.gov
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On Trans Day of Visibility and every day, we should all follow and support local organizations doing the work on the ground in places like Arkansas, Alabama, and South Dakota.
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SOUTH DAKOTA
Support and follow the Transformation Project Advocacy Network (@TransadvocacySD), which aims to lessen the isolation of trans youth in the state by educating and supporting them and their families.
ARKANSAS
InTransitive (@intransitiveAR) focuses on community building, immigration support, and violence prevention for the trans community and all of our loved ones.
The Muslim ban, which ultimately targeted a large number of Africans, destroyed people’s lives: families were separated, people were denied seeking life-saving health care treatment, and others were prevented from seeking educational and career opportunities.
This included diversity visa recipients — who won a once in a lifetime opportunity — but were denied because of Trump’s discriminatory bans.
The Biden administration recently stated it would not right these wrongs, threatening to forever prevent Black and Brown immigrants from coming to America.
Let's break down what's in the atrocious bill Georgia Governor Kemp just signed into law.
SB 202 makes it a crime to provide beverages to others who are in line to vote.
It disenfranchises most out-of-precinct voters, those casting provisional ballots inside their counties but outside their one assigned polling location.
It shortens the period to request an absentee ballot.
It prohibits government agencies from sending absentee ballot applications to voters.
It requires that drop-boxes are only available at early vote locations and accessible during voting hours.
⚠️ ARKANSAS IS ABOUT TO BAN TRANS PEOPLE FROM ACCESSING HEALTH CARE ⚠️
This would be the first bill of its kind to pass in any state, ever.
It will completely bar gender-affirming health care for trans youth and bar public insurance coverage for trans people of ANY AGE.
Yes, you read that right.
Every major medical association supports this health care.
Banning trans kids from getting this treatment, which could force some youth to go through their endogenous puberty, would cause unspeakable and irreversible harms.
Yemen is in the midst of a dangerous war. When Anwar won the lottery, he traveled through militant-controlled regions and checkpoints to get the documentation he needed and spent his life savings.
He was then informed that his visa was denied because of the Muslim ban.
Anwar, his wife, and two kids had an opportunity to escape the war and come to the US – until Trump took it away.
Their fate hangs in the balance, along with many others in Yemen, other countries in the region, and African countries as well.