Friend –

Opponents of LGBTQ equality in Congress have been pushing extremely concerning provisions in critical government funding bills over the past few weeks against peoples' civil liberties – particularly when it comes to the safety and rights of trans people.

These attacks are only continuing and have now expanded to target everyone in our LGBTQ community.

Here's what to know and what action to take immediately:

What's going on?

• Several government funding bills are moving in the House that come after federal funding for gender-affirming health care for trans people, Pride Flags, marriage equality, and more. BUT members of the House of Representatives are also expected to vote on amendments that would remove these damaging and discriminatory provisions from these bills.

What action can you take?

• ACLU Supporter, these anti-LGBTQ provisions are a dangerous assault. Defunding transgender people's health care especially will pose an immediate risk to their lives and well-being.
• We can and must let our leaders in Congress know that we, the people, do NOT support these hateful efforts: Send a message to your representative today.

ACLU Supporter, make no mistake: This is a dangerous effort to hijack the federal budget in order to deny health care that many trans people need to live, while stripping away several other protections for all our communities.

We at the ACLU will not allow this unconscionable attack against our LGBTQ community to go down without a fight.

Please join us in action at this urgent time. And know whatever attacks they may throw at us, we at the ACLU are here now and always to protect peoples' rights. Count on it.

Thank you for your activism,

The ACLU Team