Today is International Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV), an annual event dedicated to celebrating transgender people and raising awareness of discrimination faced by transgender people worldwide, as well as a celebration of their contributions to society.

Whether you’re transgender, gender non-conforming (GNC) or an ally, join Georgia Equality in sending a note to your state legislator. We must make sure they know that transgender Georgians are important to our communities, and they deserve protection from discrimination in state law.

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State Representative Ginny Ehrhart (R-Powder Springs) will formally introduce a bill that would make it a felony for medical professionals to help a minor with gender transition. Under Ehrhart’s proposal, Georgia medical providers who perform surgeries or administer or prescribe medications that assist minors with gender transition could be charged with a felony. Tell your State Representative not to criminalize medical treatment for trans youth and STOP HB 1060. Continue reading →

Extremist state lawmakers have introduced Senate Bill 368 which would give adoption agencies — including taxpayer-funded ones — a license to discriminate against same-sex couples and LGBTQ youth.

This is unconscionable. Lawmakers are playing politics with the lives of the 12,000+ children waiting for loving homes in Georgia’s adoption and foster care system, all because some extremists want to discriminate against LGBTQ people.

We’ve stopped bills like this before, and we will do it again. Our best shot right now is to make sure SB 368 never gets out of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Rush a message to your Senator right now urging them to reject SB 368.

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