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Katrina Katrinka :donor:

@Some_Emo_Chick
#RandyGardner, whose brother was killed by firing squad by the State of #Utah has become an anti-death penalty advocate and I hope for the elimination of the death penalty in the US.

This article is an effective explanation of why it's harmful to everyone affected.
#utpol #DeathPenalty #FiringSquad

sltrib.com/news/politics/2022/

The Salt Lake Tribune · This unlikely pair changed some leaders’ minds about ending Utah’s death penalty. Will it be enough?Sharon Wright Weeks and Randy Gardner have spent decades living on the opposite sides of the criminal justice system — that of a victim’s family and of a killer’s — but both are now advocating for the same end: abolishing the death penalty in Utah.
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Katrina Katrinka :donor:

I love that this teacher wants to continue to support his students, but if he, like many teachers, doesn't have the funds for a lawsuit, I hope he instead replaces the rainbow flag with rainbow pencils and rainbow chalk and rainbow markers and rainbow maps and rainbow handouts and a rainbow mat... You get the idea. There are plenty of non-flag options that don't break the stupid law.

sltrib.com/opinion/letters/202

The Salt Lake Tribune · Letter: I won’t take the Pride flag down — regardless of what the Utah GOP decidesLetter: I won’t take the Pride flag down — regardless of what the Utah GOP decides
#Utah#WestJordan#Teaching
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Yana

The Utah Senate passed a surprise amendment to seize street planning power from Salt Lake City in an apparent effort to kill the Green Loop and force a UDOT mentality on the capital (aka converting every single street into a 7-lane expressway). Contact your representatives immediately to tell them to oppose SB195. buildingsaltlake.com/utah-legi

Building Salt Lake · Utah Legislature Moves Steal Salt Lake City's Street Planning PowerSB195 hamstrings the city's efforts to engage in both placemaking around Downtown and making its streets safer for people who use its streets.
#utpol#SaltLakeCity
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Ben Winslow

Members of Utah’s Native American tribes rallied at the Utah State Capitol today for a bill that so far hasn’t been granted a hearing. They say it deserves to be heard and could help their communities: fox13now.com/news/politics/uta #utpol #Utah

FOX 13 News Utah (KSTU) · Utah tribal members rally for a bill to be heard in the Utah legislatureBy Ben Winslow
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Mx. Luna Corbden

Look, I've already had my surgery and I'm not on HRT. And I have private insurance, AND I had to pay for my top surgery myself with credit card and crowd funding. (Because I'm nonbinary and not on HRT, it wasn't covered in Washington state's Medicaid that I was on at the time.) So this doesn't affect me personally in the slightest.

But I'm not gonna be like "I got mine!" and shove everyone else under the bus. Trans care is medical care, it saves lives (my top surgery marked the turning point of my own mental health recovery). So this counts for kids (already lost their care), low-income folks being covered by the state (coming for that now), and trans people with good insurance and loads of money (up next).

It is unacceptable to lose this progress we've made.

#USPol#UTPol#LGBTQ
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Mx. Luna Corbden

Didn't we call it?

This is only affecting Medicaid patients for now, so those holding up the slippery slope will claim it's the government's right to decide what's covered or whatever.

But if they get away with this, they'll be coming for total bans for transgender people of all incomes. That's the very next step and the camel will be all the way inside the tent.

web.archive.org/web/2025021918

The Salt Lake Tribune · Utah lawmaker moves to restrict transgender adults’ access to gender-affirming careA Utah lawmaker is proposing expanding restrictions to adults by barring public funding from going toward gender transition.
#USPol#UTPol#LGBTQ
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Katrina Katrinka :donor:

If you are in #Utah and want to support #LGBTQ and specifically #trans people,
#TransVisibility, and #TransJoy, sign up with #ProjectRainbow.

Even if you don't have a yard for a flag, you can donate to the community fund and/or volunteer with the project to put up and take down flags and/or help at events.

This is real, local action you can take to fight back against the effort to eliminate trans people in our community.
#utpol

projectrainbowutah.org/

Project RainbowSpread Love & Raise Funds – Home – Project RainbowSpread Love & Raise Funds with Project Rainbow Utah. Community led organization since 2018. Over $300,000 dollars in grants provided through our Community Fund.
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