Press releases
LGBTQ Rights Post-Election: Protecting our Community
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.
Statehouse Republicans Pre-File ‘Genitalia of a Different Gender’ Bill
Voters just rejected transgender discrimination, so now Republicans are legislating it.
Gender Justice League launches emergency fund for name, gender marker changes
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.
Trump Is Going to Be President. Time to Organize.
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.
The Stranger’s Sydney Brownstone Wins Gender Justice League Award for Coverage of Trans Rights
Sydney Brownstone has won the Gender Justice League’s 2016 Media Justice Award.
Seattle Children’s Hospital Opens Gender Clinic for Trans Kids
The clinic is one of just five in the nation.
Video: What Trans Pride Means to Me
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.
Despite Rain and Violence, Trans Pride Seattle Thrives
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.
Trans* Pride 2016 dances through the rain on Capitol Hill
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.
Imaginative Anarchists Are Holding a Downtown Rock Concert With the Gender Justice League on May Day
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.