Help Us Champion Florida's LGBTQ Community
This year, Florida's LGBTQ community faced an unprecedented level of attacks from Florida's GOP lawmakers.
Laws were passed to expand Don’t Say LGBTQ’s explicit ban through eighth grade (with a Department of Education policy that effectively expands those provisions to all grades), escalate book banning, threaten child custody agreements, and cut off care for a vast majority of transgender people in the state. The “Physicians Only” provision of SB 254 prohibits nurse practitioners and physician assistants from providing gender-affirming care to transgender adults, disrupting the health care of an estimated 80%+ of transgender patients at clinics statewide. In the immediate wake of the law's signing, transgender Floridians began receiving notice that their care was being temporarily or permanently suspended. Florida's anti-trans bathroom law, a policy that will ban transgender people from using restrooms and changing facilities that align with how they live their lives in publicly-owned or leased buildings, which includes airports, government buildings, convention centers, parks, school campuses and stadiums. That law, which takes effect July 1, will subject visitors and residents alike to criminal penalties for refusing to leave a restroom when asked.
Your donation will help us fight these attacks and power the future of our work. As Florida's statewide LGBTQ civil rights organization, Equality Florida is uniquely suited to create real and lasting change for LGBTQ Floridians. In our 26-year history, we've been the backstop in Tallahassee for nearly all anti-LGBTQ legislation sweeping the country and have helped pass hundreds of local pro-equality policies across the state. These successes would not have been possible without the support of supporters like you. Please make a donation today that's meaningful to you.
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