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![Thousands fill the streets in support of Black Trans Lives Matter and George Floyd on June 14, 2020, in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/11/2020_1120-black-trans-lives-matter-400x300.jpg)
Activists Center the Grief, Joy and Humanity of the Black Trans Community
On Trans Remembrance Day let's recognize the centrality of the struggle for trans rights for all justice movements.
![Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court, takes meetings at the U.S. Capitol on October 1, 2020, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/10/2020_1009-amy-coney-barrett-400x300.jpg)
I Was a Student of Amy Coney Barrett. She Isn’t an LGBTQ Ally.
As a professor at Notre Dame Law Judge Barrett made her anti-LGBTQ sentiments very clear to her students and peers.
![Associate Justice Clarence Thomas poses for the official group photo at the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on November 30, 2018.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/10/2020_1006-clarence-thomas-400x300.jpg)
Clarence Thomas Screed Suggests Supreme Court Should Overturn Same-Sex Marriage
Supreme Court Justices Thomas and Alito argue “the Court has created a problem that only it can fix.”
![Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos listens during a White House Coronavirus Task Force press briefing at the U.S. Department of Education on July 8, 2020, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/09/GettyImages-1255048799-400x300.jpg)
DeVos’s Attack on Trans Athletes Is Not About Equity — It’s About Social Control
The Education Department is pulling resources from underfunded districts to punish them for trans-inclusive policies.
![President Trump sits beside the Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on February 1, 2017, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/09/2020_0918-trump-carson-400x300.jpg)
A Trump Admin Rule Change Would Allow Shelters to Refuse Trans People
The mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic has left transgender people more vulnerable to housing instability than before.
![A United States Air Force aircraft delivers a second batch of medical ventilators at Vnukovo-3 Airport in Moscow, Russia, on June 4, 2020.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/08/GettyImages-1217494117-400x300.jpg)
Trump Administration Erases LGBTQ People From Major Foreign Aid Policy
A new version of USAID's gender policy omits any mention of transgender people.
![Black Trans Lives Matters chalk art is seen in Washington Square Park on June 26, 2020, in New York City.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/08/GettyImages-1252822425-400x300.jpg)
Black Trans Activists Are Organizing Against Louisiana Law Targeting Trans Women
Black trans activists are pushing the movement for Black lives to defend trans and gender nonconforming people.
![A Black woman speaks with a determined face into a megaphone as the rainbow flag billows behind her](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/08/2020_0812-trans-justice-400x300.jpg)
Economic Justice Is Necessary to Stop Murders of Trans Women of Color
Lack of economic opportunities due to discrimination exposes trans women of color to higher rates of violence and death.
![LGBTQ people behind bars](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/07/2020_0710-trans-youth-b-400x300.jpg)
Abel Cedeño and Queer Youth of Color Are Still Caged for Self-Defense
U.S. courts routinely imprison queer people of color who defend themselves against anti-queer, anti-trans attackers.
![NYPD officers seen during the New York City Pride March, June 26, 2016.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/06/2020_0626-nypd-pride-400x300.jpg)
Let’s Finally Get the Police Out of Pride
We are past the point where putting a rainbow flag on a cop car can be mistaken for victory or liberation.