Funding fight: WA advocates push to protect abortion access, transgender care in Olympia
Hundreds of advocates gathered on the Capitol steps in Olympia on Monday, urging lawmakers to restore funding for reproductive health care, transgender services and crime victim programs. The rally brought together organizations from across Washington for Planned Parenthood’s Lobby Day and Gender Justice League’s annual Trans Advocacy Day.
Our Bodies, Our Data, Our Democracy: Gender Justice League’s 2026 Legislative Priorities
This legislative session, Gender Justice League is focused on a core truth: Trans people deserve privacy, safety, and a real say in the decisions that shape our lives. This year, lawmakers across the country have increasingly used surveillance, data exposure, and...
We Need to Regulate Automated License Plate Readers Now
Under Donald Trump’s control, federal agents are using a surveillance tool to learn where immigrants, trans people, and abortion seekers live, work, and go to school. They’re called automated license plate readers (ALPRs) and may be watching from a street near you.
Gender Justice League 2025 Year in Review: Defending Trans life, Building Trans Power, Investing in Trans Futures
In 2025, Trans communities faced an unprecedented wave of coordinated, state-sanctioned attacks aimed at erasing our lives from public policy and daily reality. From day one, the Trump administration moved to mandate discrimination across education, healthcare,...
Brian Heywood is Bankrolling Conservative Ballot Measures in Washington
“He’s an oligarch,” said Danni Askini, executive director of Washington’s Gender Justice League. “He’s spending millions and millions of his own money backing these measures about trans people, but a year ago, he was pushing something else. He’s a political opportunist.”
Trans sports ban that could require genital exams will appear on the ballot in Washington
A far-right political action committee says it has collected enough signatures to potentially get a trans sports ban onto Washington state’s ballot in November, and that ban would require girls to undergo physical examinations to participate in school sports.
Trans Sports Ban With Genital Inspections Gains Enough Signatures To Appear On Washington State Ballot
The initiative collected 400,000 signatures, and will be one of the first major attempts to get an anti-trans law onto the ballot in a state that has dubbed itself a “refuge” for transgender people.
Slog AM: Trump Chooses Oil Over the Constitution, Ferry Service to Kitsap Is Screwed, and the Seattle Times Has a New Blethen in Charge
Your Least Favorite Initiative Man Is Back: Tech millionaire Brian Heywood’s org, Let’s Go Washington, filed signatures for two anti-LGBTQ initiatives.
Signatures filed for initiatives on parental rights, blocking trans athletes from girls’ sports
Supporters of two citizen initiatives, one focused on parental rights and another on barring transgender athletes from girls’ sports, moved closer Friday to getting those measures before the Washington state Legislature, and potentially voters.