A citizen initiative that would increase the risk of violence and abuse of LGBTQ+ students is set to take effect early in Pride Month after being passed by the state legislature. While the initiative has yet to become law and the state courts have the opportunity to intervene, the introduction of such a policy is already impacting LGBTQ+ youth.
Experts Still Don’t Know How It’ll Be Implemented
TPS, now celebrating its 10th anniversary, is produced by the Gender Justice League. Founded in 2012, the organization focuses on “elevating the rights of the Trans and gender-diverse communities in Washington State and beyond.” For a decade, TPS has been “celebrating Trans joy, life, and love.”
Thousands celebrated Pride at various events throughout the weekend in the Seattle area.
Ten years after the first Trans Pride Seattle marched into Cal Anderson Park, veterans from that June night in 2013 and first-timers joined hundreds of people in Capitol Hill’s Volunteer Park to represent the strength of the city’s TwoSpirit, Trans and Gender Diverse community and allies.
“I Just Remember That First Year and I’m So Proud. I Can’t Even Describe the Amount of Joy and Gratitude—I Was So Grateful.”
Blaire Sebren wasn’t out as transgender when they attended their first Trans Pride Seattle event. They knew only one trans person, the friend with whom they tagged along to the party in Cal Anderson Park that summer of 2014.
In this live taping of The Weeds, host Jonquilyn Hill sits down with Danni Askini, co-executive director of national programs for the Gender Justice League. The two examine the history of gender-affirming care, discuss how changes in health policy and advancements in marriage equality have led to this backlash, and explore how advocates are responding.
No matter where you live, you can support trans rights and livelihood.
Senate Bill 5599 attracted more ire and myth-making than almost any other bill in Olympia this session.
Transgender troops fear a policy overturn may force them to serve in secret. Those who support the proposed ban argue that the issue is discouraging many potential recruits from enlisting.
Sarah Moran speaks to Kiro 7 about the Respect for Marriage Act, the current state of trans rights nationwide, and more.
Before she decided to take on Washington’s 30-year incumbent in the U.S. Senate, Tiffany Smiley’s Twitter feed looked pretty typical of a new-mom-in-town Republican…
After a bumpy two years, Trans Pride Seattle is back in-person at Volunteer Park. The event kicks off at 5:30 pm and features performances by The Royal House of Noir, Seattle’s All Black Kiki Ballroom House…
By 2019, Trans Pride Seattle had grown into a surprisingly massive event with huge crowds rallying on Capitol Hill for a celebration of civil rights, love, and good times…
Trans Pride Seattle returns in person after a two-year hiatus, celebrating and centering transgender, nonbinary, Two Spirit, and gender-diverse communities.
Organizers of Trans Pride Seattle are sounding the alarm about the event, which is struggling to raise funds with just weeks to go.
The first time I arrived at Trans Pride as a young trans person, I was profoundly moved to see thousands of people just like me, proud of who they were, experiencing joy…
In late 2019, Kato Camacho moved to Tacoma, determined to make the most of a new beginning. He had recently undergone gender-affirming top surgery…
After a bumpy two years, Trans Pride Seattle is back in-person at Volunteer Park. The event kicks off at 5:30 pm and features performances by The Royal House of Noir, Seattle’s All Black Kiki Ballroom House…
A program that provides services to transgender and gender diverse communities is expanding into Grays Harbor and Pacific counties.
Hopefully by 2022 we’re having parades and parties again — But Seattle Pride making early call to move 2021 celebration online.
The ACLU of Washington on Thursday filed a lawsuit against Swedish Health Services for refusing to meet the terms of a settlement agreement designed to end the hospital system’s discriminatory practices and improve health care access for transgender patients.
Some call it CHOP, some call it CHAZ, and no one knows quite what it is. But one thing is clear in a blocks-large swath of Capitol Hill: a community is taking shape.
A group called the “Women’s Liberation Front” booked the Microsoft auditorium at the library for an event that critics say is anti-transgender. It has many people calling for the library to cancel the event.
Seattle’s trans community and allies came out in force in and around Cal Anderson Park the evening of June 28 for a joyful celebration of identity on the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots in New York, which launched the gay rights movement.
Thousands came to Capitol Hill on Friday for the seventh annual Trans Pride. The event, organized by Gender Justice League, supports the Seattle-area trans and gender non-conforming community, with a march, a rally and access to community resources.
This year’s Trans Pride event attracted possibly their largest ever turnout, with several thousand people coming together Friday evening at Cal Anderson Park for a march and rally that included informational booths, speakers and live music.
In what appeared to be the largest turnout ever for the event, thousands marched on Capitol Hill and rallied at Cal Anderson Park Friday night to celebrate Trans Pride in Seattle and remember those who came before to fight for human rights for all.
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan will no longer deny chest reconstruction procedures for transgender women, according to the state.
Trans Pride, in its sixth year, supports the Seattle-area trans and gender non-conforming community. The event was a celebration, but also brought focus on continuing issues including the need for improved healthcare, calling for protections for transgender people who are navigating the immigration system and other causes.
This action challenges the constitutionality of an official federal policy of discrimination against transgender people regarding military service.
Lambda Legal and OutServe-SLDN today filed a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Trump administration’s ban on military service by transgender individuals.
The Seattle nonprofit is a plaintiff in one of two new lawsuits against the ban.
The administration said Wednesday that states should decide whether trans students should be allowed to use school bathrooms that match their gender identity, reversing guidelines issued by then President Obama.
The protest at Sea-Tac Saturday could become a common scene in Seattle.
With the Trump administration imminent, trans people are scrambling to get their papers in order.
A new proposed ballot initiative sets off a fresh clash over whether transgender people in Washington should be allowed to use the bathrooms of the gender with which they live.
Gender Justice League in partnership with Q-Law Legal Foundation, Teller and Associates, U.T.O.P.I.A., and King County Bar Association will be holding a name and gender marker change legal clinic on January 15 prior to the presidential inauguration.
Transgender people have made major strides in visibility and won important victories in recent years. Nevertheless, trans people continue to struggle with hate-based violence, economic marginalization, and social exclusion.
Ebo Barton, with that shift in identity, is now more than ever, at peace with the public and private acknowledgement of their inherent gender queer identification. (Barton prefers the gender queer singular pronoun, they/them/their.)
On December 12, after nearly a half year of struggle by Washington CAN and tenants’ rights advocates, the Seattle City Council passed Kshama Sawant’s landmark move-in fees legislation.
While it’s uncertain times for everyone right now due to the impending horror of The Illegitimate Regime of Donald Trump, it’s even more worrisome for community members most at risk.
Michaela Marie Wills and Aria Vandebergh waited in the Cloud Room for their names to be called. Several dozen other people sat in the dimly lit room — warm with the press of bodies or an overzealous heater, it was hard to tell — grabbing drinks at the bar and contributing to the heavy buzz of conversation.
The results of the 2016 election have created fear and uncertainty about the legal rights and safety of LGBTQ community members. Learn more about what you can do to protect your rights after the election and how our community’s legal organizations can help. Lawyers and community leaders present information about a wide range of legal issues impacting community members.
Voters just rejected transgender discrimination, so now Republicans are legislating it.
With a Donald Trump presidency looming, the Gender Justice League is raising money for an emergency fund to help transgender people change their legal documents to correspond with their identities.
Banding together on important issues is vital to opposing a destructive agenda. Here are the local groups you can connect with to make it happen.
Sydney Brownstone has won the Gender Justice League’s 2016 Media Justice Award.
The clinic is one of just five in the nation.
Members of the Gender Justice League— a group of transgender, gender non-conforming and allied activists— discuss what the upcoming TransPride event means to them.
Friday, June 24—It’s been drizzling for a while, but now the sky is straight-up pissing on the roiling mass of human bodies spread across Cal Anderson Park. Sparse patches of umbrellas poke up from the crowd like mushrooms, but most people just get soaked.
As Seattle kicks off Pride Weekend for 2016, many of the holiday’s traditional themes of celebration, community, and dancing, have been washed out by a larger tension and concern for safety.
The march was both a protest and a celebration.
An incredible downpour didn’t stop Trans* Pride — but it definitely made more than a few people including Gender Justice League organizer Danni Askini consider calling it a night to head somewhere warm and dry. Instead, they danced.
Some anarchists are not promoting May Day with cringeworthy riot porn. Some anarchists are doing something awesome: Holding a rock concert in the middle of downtown Seattle to promote anarchism, have fun, and bring together the Gender Justice League, the Tenants Union of Washington State, the environmentalist Backbone Campaign, Standing Against Foreclosure and Eviction, and Rojava Solidarity Seattle* in one event.
For many people, using a public restroom does not require much thought or effort. But for transgender people in Washington state, the basic human need to use a restroom has shifted into a political act that has been fought for fiercely, particularly during this session of the Washington State Legislature…
Councilmember Kshama Sawant thanked the Gender Justice League and all activists who helped to defeat Senate Bill 6443 yesterday, a bill intended to roll back protections for transgender people.
Socialist Alternative interviews Danni Askini about the struggle for equal rights for trans people.
Hundreds of people joined the annual Trans* Pride march through the streets of Capitol Hill Friday night to lend their feet, voices, and faces to recognizing and celebrating the transgender community in Seattle.
Author Helen Boyd met activist and Gender Justice League founder Danielle Askini a long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. She was then, and remains to this day, one of her favorite trans activists and educators.
Toting signs with messages of love and acceptance, groups of attendees moved around Capitol Hill during the Trans Pride march and celebration in Seattle. The event intended to increase the power of the transgender community and its allies, both within and beyond Seattle.