Gender Liberation March Confronting Heritage Foundation, Supreme Court
GENDER LIBERATION MARCH To Confront Heritage Foundation, Supreme Court
By Demanding Access To Abortion, Gender Affirming Care
National leaders from reproductive justice and LGBTQIA+ movements to host the Gender Liberation March on September 14, 2024, at Columbus Circle in Washington, D.C. The march will include protests outside of the Heritage Foundation headquarters and the Supreme Court. Gender Liberation March targets Heritage’s anti-freedom agenda, Project 2025, and brings attention to the upcoming SCOTUS case, U.S v Skrmetti, on medical treatment for transgender youth, which is scheduled to be heard this winter. Gender Liberation March will be led by a collective of gender justice based organizations and their organizers, such as activists part of the Brooklyn Liberation March and Women’s March, in a historic demonstration of feminist and trans solidarity.
This year has witnessed a record surge in anti-trans bills—over 600 introduced, with 45 passed in 16 states, accompanied by widespread attacks on reproductive justice. 41 states have enforced abortion bans, 14 of which are total bans with only limited exceptions. The Gender Liberation Movement will be marching to remind the far-right Supreme Court Justices of what’s at stake for our community and trans people nationwide. The extremist rhetoric promoted by conservative legislators is harming lives across the country, and regardless of the outcome of this November's Presidential election, these attacks on our community will persist.
The march and rally will platform 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 mobilization will illuminate how Project 2025 will attack everyone's bodily autonomy and self-determination.
The Heritage Foundation promotes extremist anti-LGBTQ, anti-bodily autonomy and anti-gender policies and rhetoric heavily funded by dark money donations. Its 900-page policy manifesto Project 2025 is a federal policy agenda that serves as a blueprint for former President Donald Trump and his running mate JD Vance if they were to win the 2024 presidential election and take the White House. In its multifarious initiative, Project 2025 seeks to interject extremist ideology to prevent people’s right to determine their own livelihood. It aims to limit access to our collective freedom, with explicit calls gutting abortion access, mass deportations of immigrants, barring trans rights, and reshaping the structure of our government.
Additionally, the SCOTUS case this winter has the potential to ban access to life-saving medical care for hundreds of thousands of trans youth. In March of last year, Tennessee’s Republican Governor, Bill Lee, signed Senate Bill 1 into law, which went into effect in July. SB 1 bans hormone therapy for trans youth, with government officials who support the ban claiming that trans healthcare is not only harmful and unnecessary but that trans people at large are not protected under the Constitution. The Supreme Court has agreed to a hearing on behalf of Tennessee plaintiffs represented by the ACLU, ACLU of TN, Lambda Legal, and Akin Gump. This case could have severe ramifications for trans adults' access to life-saving care as well as protections to housing, employment, education, and more.
We are marching to the Heritage Foundation and SCOTUS to make OUR message clear. In a nation that brands itself as the “land of the free,” our defense of our freedoms is non-negotiable. These are our bodies, our genders, our choices, and our futures. We demand Gender Liberation for all.
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General inquiries can be sent to genderlib4all@gmail.com
Organizers are available for interviews.
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.
