This week anti-trans bills moved forward in:
▪️ Alabama
▪️ Arkansas
▪️ Arizona
▪️ Florida
▪️ North Dakota
▪️ Texas
This is an assault on our bodies and our lives.
Some of these bills aim to ban trans youth from sports teams — particularly transgender women and girls — in spite of coaches, NCAA athletes, women’s rights groups, and professional athletes all saying trans girls belong in sports. aclu.org/news/lgbt-righ…
Some of these bills ban medical care for trans youth or ban medically accurate info from schools — in spite of support from doctors and medical associations for trans youth. aclu.org/news/lgbtq-rig…
There are also bills that would allow people to turn away transgender people from medical care, businesses, and more. aclu.org/news/religious…
We must not allow these attacks to go unchallenged.
We must not allow trans youth to be attacked.
We must speak up and take action NOW.
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We're suing the Detroit Police Department for violating the rights of Robert Williams, a Black man wrongly arrested due to face recognition technology.
Williams was arrested as he arrived home from work, in front of his wife and two young children.
The police held him for 30 hours until they realized that "the computer got it wrong." aclu.org/news/privacy-t…
Face recognition technology falsely matched blurry surveillance footage of a shoplifting suspect to Williams' expired driver's license, and police failed to disclose deep faults in the investigation when requesting a warrant to arrest him.
BREAKING: The Biden administration proposed a new federal rule to restore the Title X family planning program, which had been gutted under Trump.
The new rule would end the Trump policy that prohibited family planning clinics from providing Title X patients with referrals for abortion care and other requirements that resulted in the widespread loss of critical Title X providers — including 6 states that have none at all.
These clinics have been the source of affordable birth control, cancer screenings, STI testing and treatment, and other essential health care for more than four million low-income people every year.
On Sunday afternoon in Minnesota, Daunte Wright was shot and killed by police after being pulled over, allegedly due to air fresheners hanging in his rearview mirror.
Daunte should still be alive today.
Black people living in America are constantly at risk of state-sponsored violence and death.
This is reprehensible and deeply unjust.
Police still exist to uphold white supremacy.
They have been empowered by laws and the courts to inject themselves into Black life for any reason, no matter how minor — even dangling air fresheners.
Fainess’ employer brought her to the US promising a better life and opportunities, but that didn’t happen.
She wound up residing in her employer’s home, living on leftover food scraps, sleeping on the floor, and was forced to work 16 hours per day — earning less than 40 cents an hour.
Her experience is not totally unique. Domestic workers around the country often suffer unchecked horrific abuses like these.