HRC Releases Call to Action to Support Trans and Gender-Expansive Children and Youth
The HRC Foundation’s analysis of 2019 CDC data finds trans and gender-expansive high schoolers face negative outcomes compared to cisgender youth
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HRC Honors Transgender Awareness Week
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation will be hosting several events in order to mark Transgender Awareness Week. The week, which this year runs from Friday Nov. 13 through Friday…
HRC Mourns Angel Unique, Black Trans Woman Killed in Memphis, Tenn.
HRC is horrified to learn of the death of Angel Unique, whom some reports identify as Angel Haynes, a 25-year-old Black transgender woman who was killed in Memphis, Tenn. Angel,…
HRC Issues Pledge for State and Local Elected Leaders to End Violence Against Black and Brown Transgender Women
Today, Human Rights Campaign President Alphonso David and Minneapolis City Council Vice President Andrea Jenkins, the first openly Black trans woman elected to public office in the United States, announced…
Pledge to End Violence Against Black and Brown Transgender Women
Rates of violence against transgender people, particularly Black and Brown transgender women, have reached epidemic proportions. Since 2013, HRC and other advocates have tracked more than 180 cases of anti-transgender…
New HRC Video Features Parent of Transgender Child: “My Kid Was Afraid To Be [In School]”
Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) is launching its final video in a weekly series on Trump’s failure to keep LGBTQ people safe. Today’s installment highlights hate and anti-LGBTQ policies…
Celebrating Our Community this International Pronouns Day
Every year on the third Wednesday in October, we mark International Pronouns Day. According to the official website, this day “seeks to make respecting, sharing and educating about personal pronouns…
HRC Mourns Sara Blackwood, Trans Woman Killed in Indianapolis
HRC is deeply saddened to learn of the death of Sara Blackwood, a transgender woman who was killed in Indianapolis, Indiana on October 11. Sara was shot while walking home…
HRC Mourns Brooklyn Deshuna, Black Trans Woman Killed in Louisiana
HRC is horrified to learn of the death of Brooklyn Deshuna, whom some reports identify as Brooklyn DeShauna Smith, a young Black transgender woman who was killed in Shreveport, Louisiana,…
Human Right Campaign President Alphonso David: 2020 Now Officially the Deadliest Year on Record for Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming People in the United States
Post submitted by Lucas Acosta (he/him), former Deputy Director of Communications, PoliticsToday, with news of the death of 20-year-old Brooklyn Deshuna, whom some reports identify as Brooklyn DeShauna, in Shreveport,…
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