Support trans youth.
It’s legislative season again, and yet again, trans people are in the political crosshairs. But today’s anti-trans legislation is going directly for our youth. This is going after kids’ rights to: feel safe at school and home, get medical care, play sports, and have privacy and agency in to whom and where they’re out. This is the worst attack on trans rights in US History and social work as a field has been completely silent. While to-date, several NASW chapters around the country have made independent statements, national has said nothing at all for at least two years.
Thanks so much to everyone who has signed, shared and spread this letter. Please see the response to NASW’s statement here.
While Texas DFPS continues to harass families and try and remove trans children from loving homes and threatening trans health programs into closing their doors, a single statement is not enough.
For additional information on past campaigns to address this, this statement was written last year with the Boston Liberation Health Group, to address the silence from the National Association of Social Workers on the issue of transgender rights.