Our Priorities for Gender, Sexuality, and Reproductive Justice
Our Priorities for Gender, Sexuality, and Reproductive Justice
Pass reproductive justice laws and funding for families.
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Improve early childhood care with direct financial support to parents, improving the protections in and enforcement of the Family and Medical Leave Act, and labor protections for pregnant and parenting people.
- Refocus the foster care system and adoption process to be safe, efficient, common-sense, and non-discriminatory on the basis of sexuality. Ensure that families’ individual and collective needs are the priority of any child welfare system by ensuring needs are met and support for families’ self-determination is provided.
- Allow parents to serve as the caregiver if their child has a disability and protect families’ right to determine what is best for them or their loved ones with disabilities.
Overhaul our country’s approach to violence against women/femms, specifically women of color, with effective and safe solutions that address and prevent harm.
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End harshly punitive measures and complicated paths for survivors, which have not prevented violence but instead inflated the prison population and discouraged reporting.
Provide increased funding for equal rights agencies and power to enforce laws against discrimination, including in housing, healthcare, and employment.
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Respect transgender and queer identities as protected identities within discrimination protections for healthcare, employment, businesses, and other areas.
Establish a clear agenda to support LGBTQ+ people’s health and safety. Urgently address the failure to assure the rights, justice, protection, and equity of the LGBTQ+ community.
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Address the severe barriers the LGBTQ+ people face including, housing security, employment opportunity, trans healthcare access, legal recognitions, and gender/sexuality-based violence.
Pass reproductive justice laws and funding for families.
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Improve early childhood care with direct financial support to parents, improving the protections in and enforcement of the Family and Medical Leave Act, and labor protections for pregnant and parenting people.
- Refocus the foster care system and adoption process to be safe, efficient, common-sense, and non-discriminatory on the basis of sexuality. Ensure that families’ individual and collective needs are the priority of any child welfare system by ensuring needs are met and support for families’ self-determination is provided.
- Allow parents to serve as the caregiver if their child has a disability and protect families’ right to determine what is best for them or their loved ones with disabilities.
Overhaul our country’s approach to violence against women/femms, specifically women of color, with effective and safe solutions that address and prevent harm.
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End harshly punitive measures and complicated paths for survivors, which have not prevented violence but instead inflated the prison population and discouraged reporting.
Provide increased funding for equal rights agencies and power to enforce laws against discrimination, including in housing, healthcare, and employment.
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Respect transgender and queer identities as protected identities within discrimination protections for healthcare, employment, businesses, and other areas.
Establish a clear agenda to support LGBTQ+ people’s health and safety. Urgently address the failure to assure the rights, justice, protection, and equity of the LGBTQ+ community.
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Address the severe barriers the LGBTQ+ people face including, housing security, employment opportunity, trans healthcare access, legal recognitions, and gender/sexuality-based violence.
