Showing posts with label pan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pan. Show all posts

Friday, June 26, 2015

Same-Sex Marriage Is Legal, But...

...We still have damn far to go.

Here are more queer civil rights issues that we can't forget...


  1. 40% of homeless youth are queer or trans.
  2. Doctors are still mutilating intersex kids.
  3. Trans women of color are still being murdered.
  4. Corrective rape is still happening.
  5. Conversion therapy is still happening.
  6. The 'Gay Panic' defense is still legal in 49 out of 50 states.
  7. Bi women are still more likely to be physically abused than lesbian or straight women.
  8. Trans people are more likely to live in poverty.
  9. Bathrooms. Just bathrooms.
  10. We still need to fear the police, especially our undocumented people, trans people, poor people, sex workers, and people of color.
  11. Undocumented LGBTQ+ people, especially TPOC, still face violence and brutality while imprisoned. Jennicet Gutierrez, anyone?
  12. In most states, there's no statewide non-discrimination policy protecting trans people. 
  13. In about half, there's also no statewide non-discrimination policy protecting cis queer people, either.
  14. There's still people trying to ban youth shelters.
  15. Trans teenagers are still committing suicide because of transphobic bullying and abuse.
I'm tired of rich, white, cis gay people forgetting that we do, in fact, still have really far to go.