A last-minute appearance by Dr. Jill Biden at this year’s Flagstaff Pride left community members to lash out against their local Pride organization.
The considerable shift to the right locally showed many that the work to attain civil rights is far from over.
A new study found that more than 9,000 trans Arizonans could be denied the ability to vote or face significant barriers this November.
In a state where recent wins have been decided by double-digit numbers, every vote indeed counts—which is why LGBTQ+ voting rights advocates are raising concerns over Arizona’s strict voter ID laws that were reinstated by the U.S. Supreme Court last month. The reason? The law inadvertently makes it harder for transgender people to vote.
Arizona is home to more than 30,000 transgender adults—24,400 of them are eligible voters.
But 9,400 of those voters are at risk of not being able to cast a ballot, or face significant hurdles this November because of the state’s voter ID law, according to a report released this week by the Williams Institute at the University of California Los Angeles, which has tracked voter disenfranchisement of LGBTQ+ people since 2012.
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