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Vania Leveille, Senior Legislative Counsel, Women’s Rights/Disability Rights, ACLU National Political Advocacy Department

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With your help, the death penalty’s days are numbered in our great state. Will you sign the pledge and join the movement to end the death penalty?

This week is a reminder of the work we can accomplish toward building a better, gender-affirming Wyoming – one free from discrimination and attacks at the social, political, and legal level.

Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) occurs annually on November 20 and serves as a time to honor the memory of the transgender people whose lives have been taken from acts of anti-transgender violence that year.

After four years of attacks on our reproductive rights and health by the Trump administration and the anti-abortion legislators it has emboldened around the country, there is much to repair. When President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris take office, their administration must make it a top priority to not just undo the damage, but to take bold, visionary steps to make reproductive health care — including abortion — accessible to all, regardless of their income or ZIP code. Congress, too, has a key role to play in ensuring that everyone is afforded the dignity to make our own decisions about our lives.Here are just a few of the many items that should top our elected officials’ to-do list:Reverse dangerous Trump administration regulations targeting reproductive health care, including:

Louise Melling, Deputy Legal Director and Director of Ruth Bader Ginsburg Center for Liberty, ACLU Ask

Our democracy is strongest when all voices are heard. Let’s prepare for an extended election process to make sure that happens.

Sarah Brannon, she/her/hers, Managing Attorney, ACLU Voting Rights Project