Jill Stein - Presidential Platform
2SLGBTQIA+ Rights
A Jill Stein Administration will guarantee the human rights of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community.
Violent attacks on transgender women (particularly Black and other transgender women of color), recent stripping of state protections, lack of legal protection after negative court rulings, and long-standing historical inequities continue. We will end the acceptance of a violent culture that devalues the humanity of our 2SLGBTQIA+ siblings. We will fight for the liberation of 2SLGBTQIA+ people around the world.
Here's how:
- Support the Equality Act, the PRIDE Act, the Every Child Deserves a Family Act, and other bills to prohibit discrimination by the U.S., the military, state or local governments, or private industry
- Support the PrEP Access and Coverage Act (until universal healthcare is implemented).
- Develop and implement 2SLGBTQIA+ inclusive public education to combat bullying
- Include 2SLGBTQIA+ history in school curricula, provide school and community trainings and 2SLGBTQIA+ specific school counseling
- Federally prohibit the harmful practice of "conversion therapy"
- Fund housing relief programs for 2SLGBTQIA+ youth, who are disproportionately represented in unsheltered populations
- Remove punitive and cumbersome legal name change requirements and fees
- Declare trans murder and suicide rates a national emergency
- De-gender or add nonbinary gender options to all Federal public documents
- De-gender school dress codes, and guarantee protection from discrimination as a result of dress in workplaces
- Publish the original Equal Rights Amendment in the National Archives, effectively bringing it into law.
- Prohibit insurance companies from denying trans-affirming procedures
- Remove "transmedicalist" language from all educational materials relating to trans individuals
- Specifically prohibit disciplining or firing trans employees for acknowledging their gender/pronouns with customers, clients, or other individuals in the workplace
- Legally prohibit mutilative surgeries on intersex infants
- Pass legislation to mandate that police adopt policies to ensure fairer interactions with transgender people, especially transgender women of color, who are disproportionately impacted by disparities in policing
- Outlaw misgendered imprisonment nationwide and end "gay panic" and "trans panic" defenses for violent crimes
- Prevent and repeal any legislation that purports to protect religious liberty at the expense of the rights of others