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The ACLU is ready to take action the minute Trump takes the oath of office. Join us: https://www.aclu.org/47
With a landmark Supreme Court case on the horizon, transgender people and their families speak out about the freedoms at stake and the fight for trans rights. The “Freedom To Be” campaign shows transgender people and their families from across the country finding joy and community, grounded in the basic principle that we all deserve the freedom to control our own families, bodies, and lives. In the last three years, politicians across the country have put themselves between transgender people, our families, and our doctors. This fall, the Supreme Court will hear from families and doctors challenging a state law banning hormone therapy for trans adolescents. For many trans youth, this medical care gives them the freedom to be who they really are. The freedom to be loved, to be safe, to be trusted with decisions about our own health care. That’s what we are fighting for. Learn more at https://www.aclu.org/ftb
Since 2021, dozens of states have moved to introduce and pass classroom censorship bills that restrict students and teachers from discussing race, gender, and sexual orientation in public schools. At the same time, politicians and school boards are making moves to ban books — predominately those by Black and LGBTQ authors — from public schools and libraries. We partnered with some of our favorite artists to read books that have been banned around the country, because everyone has a First Amendment right to learn and read free from censorship or discrimination. To learn more about book bans and how to combat classroom censorship, go to https://www.aclu.org/rtl-resources
In the past year alone, the ACLU community fought to secure abortion rights in Michigan, defended trans youth from political attacks in Arkansas and Texas, and blocked Florida from censoring lessons about race and gender in college classrooms. With the support of our members, supporters, volunteers, and staff, we will keep showing up whenever civil rights and civil liberties are under attack. https://www.aclu.org/weshowup
In our series “100 Years of Racism in U.S. Policing,” we take a critical look at post-riot policing commissions over the last 100 years in four short films. The trends we see today in police violence are the same trends we’ve seen over the last 100 years. It is our hope that by looking deeply at the inciting events of the riots and their aftermath, that we may better understand why it is not just reform, but a full re-allocation of resources that is necessary for us to see the end of violence and injustice in our communities.
These are the stories of three people whose experiences show the toll that an abusive and unjust criminal system takes on individuals, families, and communities. The United States incarcerates more people, in both absolute numbers and per capita, than any other nation in the world. Since 1970, the number of incarcerated people has increased sevenfold to 2.3 million in jail and prison today, far outpacing population growth and crime. Not everyone is treated equally in the criminal justice system. Racial bias keeps more people of color in prisons and on probation than ever before. One out of every three Black boys born today can expect to go to prison in his lifetime, as can one of every six Latino boys — compared with one of every 17 white boys. Black people are also subject to pretrial detention at a higher rate than white arrestees with similar charges and history. For more information visit: https://www.aclu.org/end-mass-incarceration