A Matter of Facts — June 2023

A Matter of Facts — June 2023dtarnowskiJune 7, 2023From Our PresidentAnniversaries are important. Marking a moment in time offers an opportunity to contemplate how far we ’ve come—or have yet to go.In the United States, June is LGBTQ Pride Month, established to commemorate the travails and celebrate the victories experienced by individuals with diverse sexual or gender identities in the struggle to attain their basic human rights. What started as an event in a single city —a march in Manhattan on the one-year anniversary of theStonewall Uprising of 1969—has grown into a global movement. Fifty-three years later, Pride festivities now take placein over 100 countries.At Guttmacher, we recognize our responsibility to support Pride all year round. We produceresearch,policy analyses and other materials that promote the sexual and reproductive health of LGBTQ+ people. We uncovered data from our most recent Abortion Patient Survey showing, in a forthcoming analysis, that a substantial proportion of abortion patients identify as LGBTQ+, and we studied how the COVID pandemic impacted LGBTQ+ individuals. We investigate the provision ofabortion care for transgender and gender nonbinary individuals. We track state-level bans on gender-affirming care and draw attention to how these bans and abortion bans represent two sides of the same coin: Both undermine people ’s bodily autonomy, increasing stigma and harm.Yet there is much more that we all can —and must—do. The recent w...
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