PFLAG is proud of our long history of support for the transgender community. We were the first LGBT organization to include transgender allies in our mission statement, and our national board made a commitment - in 2002 - to only supporting legislation that is fully inclusive of every member of our families, including our transgender loved ones, too.
Today, we are reminded of just how important that commitment is, and how much work remains to be done, in an article from the Nashua Telegraph, highlighting the up-hill struggle our transgender friends face in their battle for full equality.
“Some say this could be the next civil rights battle of our time,” reporter Ashely Smith writes, “following the path set out by women in the 1910s and African-Americans in the 1950s,” noting that many gay civil rights organizations “have broadened the scope of their political agendas over the years to include the transgender community.”
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