"The point is that even 'progressive' candidates have also proceeded to do what Alabama legislators have continuously strategized in the past four years: to make the rights and healthcare of transgender folks a topic to be questioned when it shouldn't be questioned in the first place. Waiting around for candidates to see trans folks as worth defending or to take an affirmative stand for us won't save us."
Jose Vazquez
Jose Vazquez (they/them) is a Latine, non-binary organizer, poet, and Board member of Montgomery Pride United. They also help manage the Bayard Rustin Community Center, a thrift store and community center for LGBTQ+ folx in Central Alabama.