2025 third_quarter Filing

This quarter Lobbied in Support of the Fit to Serve Act and to push back on efforts to remove Protections for Transgender individuals in Federal law. WE also engaed with legislators in favor of the Equality Act to increase civil rights protections for LGBTQI+ individuals. significant effort was focused on lobbying in favor of reintroduction ofthe John Lewis Every Child Deserves a Family Act and other nondiscrimination protections in the child welfare system for LGBTQ+ youth in care, prospective foster and adoptive parents, and families of origin. And where appropriate in other bills, we lobby for nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ+ people and families in government services and programs, schools, the child welfare system, and reproductive healthcare.

This quarter we lobbied in favor of the Expanding Access to Fertility Care for Servicemembers and Dependents Act) as part of our ongoing efforts to support federal legislation that protections for women's bodily autonomy, reproductive freedom, and choice and reproductive freedom (including WHPA). We lobbied in favor of efforts in the Senate to pass legislation tha establishes a statutory right for an individual to access assisted reproductive technology (ART) services, such as IVF, and for a healthcare provider to provide ART services.