61 Members of Congress urge Sec. Rubio to restore LGBTQIA+ Data to Human Rights Report
In recent news, a coalition of 61 Members of Congress spearheaded by Rep. Sarah McBride (DE-AL), Rep. Robert Garcia (CA-42), and Rep. Julie Johnson (TX-32) came together to urge Secretary of State Marco Rubio to restore LGBTQIA+-specific data to the 2024 Country Report on Human Rights. This comes amidst extreme and frankly ghoulish attacks on the LGBTQIA+ community across the country, particularly transgender people. The Co-Chairs of the Congressional Equality Caucus’s International LGBTQI+ Rights Task Force, as they are known, say that this information is vital to LGBTQIA+ Americans travelling abroad, as many parts of the world are very unsafe to travel to for these people. They also cite Secretary Rubio’s speaking out against LGBTQIA+ discrimination in the past, when he was a senator. As stated before, the current administration has been on a tirade of rolling back LGBTQIA+ and particularly transgender rights, which is why we need action now more than ever. This letter is nothing mor...