John –

All this month we’re reflecting on the ways that our team at the Campaign for Southern Equality is committed to showing up for the LGBTQ+ community with our full selves – mind, body, and spirit. One of the key ways we’re doing that is by strategically fighting back against the relentless wave of anti-LGBTQ+ attacks in state legislatures, with particularly brutal attacks on transgender and queer young people. 

Youth are seeing their access to affirming healthcare ripped away, their ability to participate in sports denied, their identities erased and silenced in school, and their curriculum outright censored. Through our Legal Equality Project CSE is showing up to fight back against this legislation wherever we can. 

We’ve raised about $8,000 so far this June to support work like this, so we’re really close to meeting a $10,000 matching gift challenge from a generous donor. Every dollar donated now through June 30 will be doubled – and your donation could be the one that pushes us across the finish line. Click here to give. 

We know how hard this year has been: More than two dozen discriminatory bills have become law, passing in nearly every Southern state. But we’ve pushed back at every turn. Here’s a look at how CSE supported:

• We’re proud to be leaders in the SC United for Justice & Equality coalition, where folks have tirelessly organized at the South Carolina Statehouse, connecting lawmakers to advocates and maneuvering against political attack after political attack.
• In Alabama we’ve helped amplify local grassroots organizing efforts from groups supporting trans youth in the face of the trans youth medical ban.
• We’ve stood with our partners in North Carolina against a curriculum censorship bill and spoken out against it in the press.

Can you support this work before June 30, which marks Give OUT Day and the deadline for our $10,000 matching gift challenge? Please join us with your donation.

Thank you,
Adam Polaski
He/Him/His
Communications Director
Campaign for Southern Equality