Christy Perez

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“Erasure is not neutral”: The inextricable link between LGBTQ+ rights & a functioning democracy

As the second Trump administration passes the one-year mark, LGBTQ+ people across the United States are living through a profound and destabilizing shift. What has unfolded over the past year is a deliberate reorientation of federal power away from civil rights and toward state-sanctioned exclusion.  According to advocates at the Human Rights Campaign, this moment is best understood not as a collection of disconnected policy fights, but as a coordinated effort to roll back decades of progress. “This administration has shown a glaring lack of care for human life,” Bentley Hudgins, Georgia State Director for the Human Rights Campaign, told LGBTQ Nation. […]

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“Erasure is not neutral”: The inextricable link between LGBTQ+ rights & a functioning democracy

As the second Trump administration passes the one-year mark, LGBTQ+ people across the United States are living through a profound and destabilizing shift. What has unfolded over the past year is a deliberate reorientation of federal power away from civil rights and toward state-sanctioned exclusion.  According to advocates at the Human Rights Campaign, this moment is best understood not as a collection of disconnected policy fights, but as a coordinated effort to roll back decades of progress. “This administration has shown a glaring lack of care for human life,” Bentley Hudson, Georgia State Director for the Human Rights Campaign, told LGBTQ Nation. […]

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The media has yet to embrace the dignity & complexity of trans lives

Trailblazing transgender pageant contestant Bella Bautista recently withdrew from the Miss Georgia USA competition, saying that the organization’s values no longer aligned with her “personal values” and “mission for inclusivity and a world free from discrimination.” She said she could not share more details due to ongoing legal proceedings, but confirmed in Teen Vogue that her resignation was in part due to the head of the organization’s support for the president.  Bautista, a 22-year-old former Miss Buckhead USA 2025, had recently made headlines for becoming the first openly trans contestant in the state’s pageant. “I wanted nothing more than to be the representation our community […]