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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
The legal landscape post-Bostock
In the wake of the momentous Bostock decision, conservatives are laying the groundwork for challenges to the employment protections that it provides, using Justice Alito’s dissent as a road map.
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Political Research Associates
How Anti-Trans Feminists Are Complicit in Christian Right Anti-Trans Advocacy
Analysis of advocacy efforts over the past three years by U.S. anti-trans feminists demonstrates the movement’s success is limited to its unlikely role as mouthpiece of the Christian Right.
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Political Research Associates
Anti-LGBT group Alliance Defending Freedom, funded in part by the DeVos family, is representing three cisgender students suing Connecticut to prevent transgender athletes from participating in state-level athletics.
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