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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
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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Political Research Associates
Be Aware of Outreach by Evangelical Homeschooling Organizations
In response to COVID-related school closures across the country, homeschool organizations like the conservative evangelical-affiliated Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) are responding by recruiting parents trapped by fear and circumstance.
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Political Research Associates
The fight against so-called “gender ideology,” a catch-all term used by various factions of the global right to disparage any disruption of a narrow understanding of the traditional family, has well and truly arrived here in the United States.
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