Happy Pride Month, John!

To celebrate and affirm everyone’s identity, VoteRiders helps voters get an ID to vote that reflects their name and gender identity wherever and whenever we can.

Trans and nonbinary voters face additional barriers to getting ID documents that reflect their correct name and/or gender identity. At least 200,000 transgender voters don’t have an ID that matches their name and/or gender , which can make casting a ballot feel invalidating or intimidating.

Every state has different rules for changing legal names and gender markers. In about half of states, the process has been designed to be extremely complicated, costly, and time-consuming. Read more about how VoteRiders supports trans and nonbinary voters during Pride month and all year long.

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One way VoteRiders shows up for LGBTQ+ communities is by co-hosting legal name change clinics.

In Florida, we’ve teamed up with the Gender Advancement Project (GAP), which helps transgender and gender-expansive folks with pro bono help changing their legal name. Once a voter completes their legal name change, our team steps in to help them update their ID documents and cover all the costs.

In Pittsburgh, our Pennsylvania State Director is co-hosting a name and gender marker change clinic with our partners, TransYOUniting and the Hugh Lane Wellness Foundation, both LGBTQ+ organizations that support Pittsburgh’s queer and HIV-positive communities.

You can help spread the word! Share our Vote With Pride resource page [[link removed]] , and if you or someone you know needs ID information or assistance, call or text our helpline at 866-432-8643 or visit VoteRiders.org/freehelp [[link removed]].

LGBTQ+ Americans are here to stay and will never stop existing. Alongside our partners in the queer and pro-democracy movements, we’re working every day to celebrate, support, and empower LGBTQ+ communities with the tools and information they need to fight for their future at the ballot box and beyond.

In solidarity,

Erin Carden
Digital Communications Coordinator
VoteRiders

P.S. Support our work with LGBTQ+ voters during Pride month and all year long! Make a tax-deductible gift today.

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