Since the start of Trump’s second term, Minnesota has become a safe haven for LGBTQIA2S+ community members. I’m committed to keeping it that way. Right now, the Trump administration is bent on cruelty, throwing social services, access to accurate identity documents, and basic human rights into a tailspin. For anyone to thrive in our country, we must right the ship, and with it respect the identities of our LGBTQIA2S+ community members.
Below are my commitments to keeping Minnesota a place where LGBTQIA2S+ community members, young and old, can thrive.
Matt Little’s LGBTQIA2S+ Bill of Rights
- Pass the Equality Act (119th Congress: HR 15; S 1503) which amends the Civil Rights Act, among other laws, to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, and sex in employment, housing, public accommodations, public education, medical care, criminal justice system, credit, and federal funding, federal employment, jury service, and social services.
- Protect Obergefell v Hodges and ensure everyone has the right to marry.
- Ban conversion therapy at the federal level.
- Overturn US vs. Shilling, the Supreme Court’s decision to allow the military to ban transgender people from serving.
- Restore LGBTQIA2S+ history to national monuments, military bases, government facilities, and federal websites.
- Protect legal recognition of parentage, expand access to IVF and fertility options, and protect LGBTQIA2S+ individuals’ rights to adoption and fostering children.
- Issue passports that have YOUR preferred gender marker, not the gender marker the federal government wants you to have.
- Reinstate funding for social service programs, nonprofits, and research that seek to uplift and support the LGBTQIA2S+ community.
- Protect and advocate for LGBTQIA2S+ youth. Including overturning Supreme Court decisions that allow for discrimination in schools, and reinstating critical federal protections for LGBTQIA2S+ youth in foster care.
- Expand nondiscriminatory access to medical care, visitation, and care homes for HIV/AIDS positive patients.