Seeing 2020: Freedom to be LGBTQ

Call your Representatives and ask how they're an ally to the LGBTQ.

The democratic presidential race is now down to a few key candidates, but where do they stand on LGTBQ rights? Check it out here:

Joe Biden

  • Would work against providing foreign aid to and engaging in trade with countries that discriminate against members of the LGBTQ community
  • Would devote an office in the State Department focused on LGBTQ rights around the world

Pete Buttigieg

  • Sign the Equality Act
  • Update the U.S. passport system to include “non-binary” or “X"
  • Outlaw genital surgeries on intersex babies
  • Get rid of barriers to medically necessary transition-related care for transgender Americans
  • Pass legislation to bolster suicide prevention among LGBTQ youth 
  • Outlaw conversion therapy

Elizabeth Warren

  • Pass the Equality Act, of which she is a cosponsor
  • Make LGBTQ non-discrimination a requirement of any entity seeking a federal grant
  • Boost enforcement against and investigations of discrimination against members of the LGBTQ community
  • Nominate federal judges who would be likely to uphold the rights of LGBTQ Americans
  • Ban discrimination on the basis of gender identity and sexual orientation in the child welfare system and within adoption agencies

Bernie Sanders

  • Scores a 100% rating from the Human Rights Campaign
  • He supported gay marriage years before the Supreme Court legalized it in in 2015
  • While Mayor of Burlington, VT he signed a law prohibiting housing discrimination against the gay community and other groups

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