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Heron Greenesmith

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Heron Greenesmith, Esq. is the former Senior Research Analyst for An umbrella acronym standing for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer or questioning. Learn more justice here at PRA and a policy attorney with over a decade of LGBTQ advocacy experience. Currently the Deputy Director of Policy at the A term used for someone whose gender is not (exclusively) the one they were assigned at birth. Learn more Law Center, Heron is also adjunct faculty at Boston University School of Law and an Editorial Board Member at the Bulletin of Applied Trans Studies. They are a co-founder of BiLaw and the Polyamory Legal Advocacy Coalition, and live in Boston.

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Political Research Associates
An Ohio state legislator may have leaked a new set of anti-trans “principles” endorsed by three major anti-LGBT organizations.
An as-of-yet unpublished new set of principles appear to consolidate Christian Right anti-LGBT advocacy into a single document with huge repercussions for LGBT children.
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Political Research Associates
Anti-trans activists and the ramifications of the Bell v. Tavistock decision for transgender youth
Greenesmith details the repressive rhetoric expressed at a recent convening of international anti-trans advocates and activists, who gathered to strategize following a harmful new ruling against the right to care for trans youth in the U.K.
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Political Research Associates
What does the new administration mean for the LGBT community?
Despite running with strong LGBT support, President-elect Biden’s centrist-Right platform is not likely to bring about the needed structural changes that queer movements have been demanding since the Stonewall Riots.
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