Kelley’s Weekly Message: January 2024
Check out these updates from Kelley Robinson highlighting key issues that affect the LGBTQ+ community in a special note for members and supporters of HRC.
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Statement on 11th Circuit Order Allowing Alabama Transgender Adolescent Medical Ban to Take Effect
MONTGOMERY —Today the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order allowing Alabama’s ban on medical care for transgender adolescents to take effect. This order grants a request by the…
Ohio Transgender Youth Abandoned in Damning Day for Ohio House as Republicans Override HB68 Veto
GOP Lawmakers Vote to Enact Sweeping Bill Banning Healthcare and Sports Participation for Ohio’s Transgender Youth
ICYMI: HRC President Delivers Powerful Rebuke of Political Violence, Illuminates Connection Between Fights for Democracy and LGBTQ+ Equality
The Event, Hosted by the Kettering Foundation, Addressed Surging Extremist Violence
Proposed New Health Care Restrictions Would Make Ohio a Hostile, Unsafe Place for Trans People of All Ages
Despite Justified Veto of HB68, DeWine Administration Rules Would Impede Health Care Access for Trans Youth and Adults
In Major Victory for Equality, HHS Finalizes Rule Reversing Trump-Era “License to Discriminate” Regulation
HRC President: New Rule Will Restore Protections for Patients, Ensure They Are Not Denied Essential Medical Care Simply Because of Beliefs of a Provider
HRC Remembers Meghan Riley Lewis, Transgender Woman Who Devoted Her Life to Feeding Hungry and Unhoused Queer People
On December 27, 2023, Meghan Riley Lewis, a 57-year-old transgender woman well known in her community for her activism for transgender rights, was killed in Bel Air, Maryland. Lewis’ death…
Gov. DeWine Does What’s Best for Ohio Children and Families, Vetoes Blatantly Discriminatory House Bill 68
Legislation Would Have Banned Health Care for Trans Youth and Prevented Trans Students From Taking Part in School Sports
Business Community, Medical Professionals, Families Strongly Oppose Bans
HRC Supports Transgender Youth Through National Emergency
Curriculum censorship, book bans, blocking transgender youth from playing sports, and denying youth access to age-appropriate and medically necessary gender-affirming care: 2023 has been the worst year on record for…
Human Rights Campaign PAC Endorses Former New York Representative Tom Suozzi for Congress
LONG ISLAND, NY — Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) PAC, the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) civil rights organization, announced its endorsement of former Democratic…
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