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Feb 20, 2024
Feb 20, 2024
ACLU of Wyoming Opposes Legislation to Prohibit Doctors from Providing Gender-Affirming Care to Trans Youth
Senate File 99 would take away private health care choices around the provision of medical care consistent with prevailing medical and scientific standards. Such choices should be made between a doctor and a patient, not politicians.
Issue Areas:
LGBTQ+ and Two Spirit Rights
Feb 12, 2024
Feb 12, 2024
ACLU of Wyoming Announces 2024 Legislative Priorities
The ACLU’s educational, organizing and lobbying efforts will be focused primarily on voting rights, free speech and expression, LGBTQ+ and Two Spirit equality, Indigenous sovereignty and justice, and criminal justice reform.
Feb 01, 2024
Feb 01, 2024
Not in Our Names: A Joint Statement Against Texas’ Cruelty at the Border
ACLU affiliates issue a response to Republican governors’ escalation on immigration enforcement
Oct 31, 2023
Oct 31, 2023
ACLU of Wyoming Condemns Gordon’s Letter Asking NCAA to Revise Trans Sports Policy
Trans people belong everywhere – including sports. But does that mean that trans people should be used in a game of political football?
Issue Areas:
LGBTQ+ and Two Spirit Rights
Sep 18, 2023
Sep 18, 2023
Libby Skarin Named Deputy Executive Director for ACLU of Wyoming, North Dakota and South Dakota
In this new role, Skarin will oversee chapter operations and lead efforts to ensure the work of the ACLU is well-supported, coordinated and aligned with its strategic plan to further advance civil liberties in the three-state region.
Mar 17, 2023
Mar 17, 2023
Two Anti-Abortion Bills to Become Law in Wyoming, ACLU Comments
A person’s health, not politics, should guide important medical decisions – including the decision to have an abortion.
Issue Areas:
Reproductive Freedom
Mar 17, 2023
Mar 17, 2023
Gov. Gordon will allow discriminatory, anti-trans sports bill to go into law without signature
Allowing Senate File 133 to go into law is shameful and only reinforces the incorrect notion that transgender students are not entitled to the same dignity and respect as all students.
Issue Areas:
LGBTQ+ and Two Spirit Rights
Mar 02, 2023
Mar 02, 2023
ACLU of Wyoming Urges Gov. Gordon to Veto Three Bills
We send people to Cheyenne to solve actual problems in our state, not to find ways to spread discriminatory rhetoric about trans youth or to insert themselves into private medical decisions like abortion.
Feb 27, 2023
Feb 27, 2023
ACLU of Wyoming Opposes House Bill 152, Far-Reaching Anti-Abortion Legislation
Everyone deserves the right to control their own bodies and to make their own decisions about their lives and futures, free from punishment, judgment or political interference.
Issue Areas:
Reproductive Freedom
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