Elliot Page, Miss Major, Julio Torres, Geena Rocero, Peppermint, and More To Speak At Gender Liberation March
“Elliot Page, Miss Major, Julio Torres, Geena Rocero, Peppermint, and More To Speak At Gender Liberation March To Advocate For Abortion and Gender-Affirming Care”
This Saturday, September 14th, LGBTQ celebrities, authors, activists and organizers will rally for abortion access and gender affirming care just blocks away from the Heritage Foundation Headquarters and Supreme Court. Among the featured speakers at the inaugural Gender Liberation March are actor, writer, and producer Elliot Page, Stonewall veteran Miss Major, director and actor Julio Torres, model and author Geena Rocero, actress Peppermint, and activist and author Raquel Willis, representing a powerful lineup of queer and trans voices.
The Gender Liberation March seeks to unite the fights for abortion access and gender-affirming care under the shared principles of bodily autonomy and self-determination. The march and rally will highlight the dire state of legislative attacks against healthcare and public education including over 600 anti-LGBTQ bills introduced, with 45 already passed across 16 states. These attacks are coupled with a wave of restrictions on reproductive rights, leading to abortion bans in 41 states, 14 of which impose near-total bans with only narrow exceptions.
Crucially, this march and rally will also bring attention to a Supreme Court case, U.S v Skrmetti, on medical treatment for transgender youth, which is scheduled to be heard this winter. This case could have severe ramifications not just for trans youth, but for trans adults’ access to to life-saving care and protections in housing, employment, education, and more.
The rally will feature voices from diverse communities, including abortion storytellers, trans youth and their parents, immigrants, climate change activists, abolitionists, social justice organizers, people of faith, and everyday people who receive or are in need of access to abortion and gender-affirming care. The current line-up includes the following organizers, activists, and storytellers:
SPEAKERS:
ELLIOT PAGE – actor, writer & producer
GEENA ROCERO – model & author
JULIO TORRES – director & actor
MISS MAJOR – stonewall veteran & activist
RAQUEL WILLIS – author and activist
RENEE BRACEY SHERMAN – founder and co-executive director of We Testify
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REV. JACQUII LEWIS – Middle Church
PIDGEON PAGONIS – intersex activist
NICK THIXTON SCOTT – We Testify Abortion Storyteller
HANZ DISMER – We Testify Abortion Storyteller
KAYDEN COLEMAN – We Testify Abortion Storyteller
ASH ORR – We Testify Abortion Storyteller
MONICA SIMPSON – Executive Director of SisterSong
LIZETTE + DANIEL – Parent + trans youth
STEPHEN CHUKUMBA – Parent of trans youth
SOL JIMENEZ – Familia TQLM
BAMBY SALCEDO – Executive Director or Trans Latina Coalition
HENNESSY GARCIA – Climate Change Activist @ Seeding Sovereignty
MADDY CLIFFORD – Media Strategist at Debt Collective
MATT BERNSTEIN – Content Creator
TONI-MICHELLE WILLIAMS – Executive Director of SnapCo
PERFORMANCES BY:
PEPPERMINT
JUNIOR MINTT
HOUSE OF MIYAKE-MUGLER
GRIFFIN MAXWELL BROOKS
GLM ORGANIZERS:
ELIEL CRUZ
RAQUEL WILLIS
FRAN TIRADO
SARAH SOPHIE FLICKER
DEVIN-NORELLE
ABOUT: Gender Liberation Movement: is an emergent and innovative grassroots and volunteer-run national collective that builds direct action, media, and policy interventions centering bodily autonomy, self-determination, the pursuit of fulfillment, and collectivism in the face of gender-based sociopolitical threats.
