GREAT NEWS! New Spanish-language publications now available

¡La espera terminó!

Después del éxito de Nuestros Seres Queridos Trans, nuestra/o traducción culturalmente inclusiva en español de nuestra/o publicación Nuestros Trans Amados, nos complace anunciar que hoy, gracias a la generosidad de nuestras/os amistades de Subaru, hemos lanzado no una sino TRES nuevas publicaciones. Las nuevas traducciones son:

Nuestras/os Hijxs: Preguntas Y Respuestas Para Familias De Jóvenes Y Adultxs Gais, Lesbianas, Bisexuales, Transgénero, De Género Expansivo Y Queer. Para padres, familias y cuidadores de personas lesbianas, gais, bisexuales y queer;

Sé Tú Misma/o: Preguntas y Respuestas Para Jóvenes Lesbianas, Gai, Bisexuales, Transgénero, Queer, Y Jóvenes En Cuestionamiento. La popular publicación de PFLAG National para jóvenes LGBTQ+; y

Cultivar El Respeto: Escuelas Seguras Para Todxs. La popular publicación de escuelas seguras de PFLAG National.

Estamos realmente entusiasmados por proporcionar estos materiales a nuestras/os miembrxs y seguidores, reconociendo, por supuesto, que los materiales traducidos son solo una pieza del rompecabezas para ayudar a nuestras/os capítulos a ser más diversos, más inclusivos, más humildes culturalmente... y más poderosos como red en todo el país.

Visite pflag.org/publications para descargar sus copias gratis o para solicitar copias impresas en pflag.org/shop.

Y gracias de nuevo a nuestras/os amistades de Subaru por su compromiso con la visión de PFLAG de un mundo donde se celebre la diversidad y se respete, valore y afirme a todas las personas, incluida su orientación sexual, identidad de género y expresión de género.

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The wait is over!

After the success of Nuestros Seres Queridos Trans, our culturally inclusive Spanish-language translation of our Our Trans Loved Ones, we’re excited to announce that today, thanks to the generosity of our friends at Subaru, we’ve released not one but THREE new publications. The new translations are:

Nuestras/os Hijxs: Preguntas Y Respuestas Para Familias De Jóvenes Y Adultxs Gais, Lesbianas, Bisexuales, Transgénero, De Género Expansivo Y Queer. For parents, families, and caregivers of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer people;

Sé Tú Misma/o: Preguntas Y Respuestas Para Jóvenes Lesbianas, Gai, Bisexuales, Transgénero, Queer, Y Jóvenes En Cuestionamiento. The popular PFLAG National publication for LGBTQ+ youth; and

Cultivar El Respeto: Escuelas Seguras Para Todxs. PFLAG National’s popular safe-schools publication.

We are truly excited to provide these materials to our members and supporters, recognizing, of course, that translated materials are only one piece of the puzzle to support our chapters in becoming more diverse, more inclusive, more culturally humble…and more powerful as a network across the country.

Visit pflag.org/publications to download your free copies; hard copies will be available for order at pflag.org/shop within the week.

And thank you again to our friends at Subaru for their commitment to PFLAG’s vision of a world where diversity is celebrated and all people are respected, valued, and affirmed inclusive of their sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression.

FEDERAL MATTERS

Please remember to make sure the people you love enroll: Affordable Care Act Open Enrollment closes on December 15th. PFLAG National is a sponsor of Out2Enroll.org which features fact sheets, enrollment tools and other information to help LGBTQ+ people and their families secure health insurance during this 2019 enrollment period. In 2018 for the first time enrollments declined over prior year. Watch PFLAG social media during open enrollment to encourage everyone to get covered.

STATE MATTERS

Massachusetts - Registry of Motor Vehicles (RMV) begins offering non-binary gender X licenses and identification cards. On Nov. 13th, the RMV announced that as part of its system upgrade, it now allows residents to choose a gender designation of X on their driver’s licenses or state ID cards, now recognizing three gender designations: male, female and non-binary.

Washington - State residents now given "X" gender option on driver's licenses, permits and identification cards. Effective November 14th, drivers in the state have a choice of being designated as M, F or X as a gender neutral alternative on licenses and related Department of Licensing products.

GLOBAL MATTERS

Botswana - The nation’s High Court repealed its colonial laws against same-sex relationships. This unanimous ruling on November 10th was welcomed by the LGBTQ+ community in the southern African country and beyond. IT now joins South Africa, Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde and São Tomé in decriminalizing same-sex relationship.

Uganda - A Ugandan court charged 67 people with causing a nuisance after being arrested in an LGBT-friendly bar on November 12th. The 67, who were among 127 people arrested at Ram Bar in the capital Kampala on November 10th, could face up to one year in jail if found guilty. 

Zimbabwe - Zimbabwean court rules in favor of transgender woman in landmark case. This is the first case in which the country’s judiciary has recognized that gender does not have to be male or female, and transgender woman and hairdresser Ricky Nathanson was awarded $400,000 in her suit after she was arrested by six anti-riot police officers, forced to undergo two anatomical exams by police and then two other body exams by doctors, charged for criminal nuisance, detained for 48 hours and prosecuted for using the ladies restroom at a bar in January 2014.

DEAR POLICY MATTERS

Dear Policy Matters:

I always enjoy reading about progress and setbacks in Policy Matters both stateside and around the world. Can you tell me whether there is a measurement of economic, legal and social impact of LGBT inclusion globally?

Globally Curious

Dear GC:

Yes, we can. The Williams Institute, a think tank at the UCLA School of Law executed a study built upon its previous reports and had its researchers analyze survey data from 174 countries to produce the Global Acceptance Index (GAI). The GAI uses a country’s public beliefs and policies regarding LGBTQ people to determine the nation’s score, which then allowed countries to be ranked in order of most to least accepting to LGBTQ people. The outcomes showed that countries that were accepting increased acceptance and those that did not were even less accepting of LGBTQ people.

Three new studies from The Williams Institute use groundbreaking measures of LGBTQ acceptance and inclusion to examine the correlation between the economic, legal and social impact of LGBT inclusion. They are: 

• In Polarized Progress: Social Acceptance of LGBT People in 141 Countries, researchers analyzed findings from 11 cross-national, global and regional surveys to develop the LGBT Global Acceptance Index (GAI), a ranking of the social acceptance of LGBT people and rights in each country.

• In Examining the Relationship between Social Acceptance of LGBT People and Legal Inclusion of Sexual Minorities, researchers used the new GAI to examine whether there is a connection between the level of acceptance of LGBT people and the level of inclusiveness of a country’s laws. 

• Links between Economic Development and New Measures of LGBT Inclusion, tested previous findings that linked inclusion of LGBT people to a country’s economic performan­­ce. Researchers used three new measures of LGBT inclusion: the GAI, the Legal Count Index (LCI), which tallies the number of LGBT-supportive laws in a country, and the Legal Environment Index (LEI), which measures the patterns of adoption of laws.

All three measures showed a positive correlation between LGBT inclusion and GDP per capita:

• A one-point increase in the GAI was associated with an increase in GDP per capita of $1,506.

• One additional legal right was associated with an increase of $1,694 in GDP per capita.

• Countries with the most inclusive LEI showed an addition of $8,259 in GDP per capita.

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