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Our friends at @SmileTrustInc are mobilizing to su

Our friends at @SmileTrustInc are mobilizing to support communities around the state of Florida impacted by Hurricane Ian and are activating their Community Emergency Operations Center located at The Freedom Lab, 4300 NW 12th Ave, Miami, FL 33127 open Monday - Saturday from 10am - 5pm.

How YOU can Help:

Drop-Off Items:
✔️ Water
✔️ Non-Perishable Foods
✔️ Batteries
✔️ Flashlights
✔️ Cleaning Products
✔️ Charcoal
✔️ Medical Supplies
✔️ First Aid Kits
✔️ Hygiene Products
✔️ Hotspot Devices
🚫 No clothing/shoes please

💫 Volunteers:
Volunteers are needed to assist with inventory, sorting supplies, phone calls, and more. Please call 786-417-7648

💸 Financial Support: To donate to The Smile Trust's relief efforts, visit bit.ly/mia-ceoc

Our heartfelt thoughts are with our siblings and c

Our heartfelt thoughts are with our siblings and community around the state of Florida following the impact of Hurricane Ian and we'll be updating everyone on social media with ways for you to get involved and support recovery efforts.

Tonight at 7pm we'll be hosting our Open Night Thursdays group meeting on Zoom, open to the entire LGBTQ+ community and all of our allies. We hope you'll join us for a safe community space.

To join us and receive the link, register now at: TransinclusiveGroup.org/Meetings/

🚨 Our thoughts are with the people of Cuba toda

🚨 Our thoughts are with the people of Cuba today and with our communities around Florida as the Sunshine State braces for Hurricane Ian's arrival. We encourage everyone across the state to remain vigilant in monitoring the forecast of this major hurricane and to prepare today with necessary supplies and emergency plans. Pay attention to emergency information and alerts, and if you live in a mandatory evacuation zone and local officials tell you to evacuate, do so immediately.

🚫 The Equality Park campus where our Transinclusive Group offices are located will be closed on Wednesday and Thursday due to Hurricane Ian's potential impact on Broward County.

The following links contain helpful hurricane preparedness information:

🌀 National Hurricane Center for Storm Track & Updates: NHC.NOAA.gov

🌀 Hurricane Shelters by County: https://www.floridadisaster.org/planprepare/shelters/

🌀 Hurricane Safety Tips from Ready.gov: https://www.ready.gov/hurricanes

Our Transinclusive Group team was honored to join

Our Transinclusive Group team was honored to join our amazing advocacy partners at the Human Rights Campaign in Washington, D.C. on Friday as guests of The White House for “A Night When Hope and History Rhyme,” a Musical Performance by Sir Elton John to Honor Everyday History-Makers.

Those "Everyday History Makers" - LGBTQ+ advocates, leaders in the HIV prevention and care field, teachers, nurses, and many others gathered on the South Lawn of The White House for powerful remarks by Dr. Biden and President Biden. Later in the evening, the President presented Sir Elton John with the National Humanities Medal, honoring his powerful voice and advocacy work to advance LGBTQ+ rights, shatter HIV stigma, and “advance the simple truth that everyone deserves to be treated with dignity and respect.”

For our Transinclusive Group staff, being invited to The White House for this important event celebrating one of the greatest songwriters and advocates of our era was such an impactful statement that Trans voices belong in The People’s House, and that Trans Rights Are Human Rights.

Tuesday, September 27 at 7pm: Join us for a fun &

Tuesday, September 27 at 7pm: Join us for a fun & interactive online workshop this week, where you'll learn all about HIV prevention and how to access PrEP from a provider near you at no cost for most individuals! This workshop is open to Trans, Nonbinary, and gender diverse individuals and same-gender-loving men as well as any of their partners.

🔗 Register now: https://bit.ly/TIGworkshop

PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) can reduce your chance of acquiring HIV from sex or injection drug use and when taken as prescribed, PrEP is highly effective for preventing HIV.

We're excited to announce that the 8th Annual Bish

We're excited to announce that the 8th Annual Bishop SF Makalani Mahee Transgender Equality Awards will be held on November 17th and the nomination process begins today!

Held in memory of Bishop SF Makalani Mahee, South Florida community advocates, organizations, and healthcare providers are nominated by the community each year so that we can recognize them for their dedicated work to advance Transgender Equality.

Join South Florida's Trans-led organizations including Transinclusive Group, Arianna's Center, The McKenzie Project, and TransSOCIAL as we accept nominations in six categories: Submit your nominations before October 12th! The top 3 nominees who receive the most nominations before 5pm EST on October 12th, 2022 in each category will advance to a public voting round! Make your nominations today: TransinclusiveGroup.org/EqualityAwards

🗓️ Save the Date: South Florida Afro Pride Ar

🗓️ Save the Date: South Florida Afro Pride Arts, Culture, and Music Festival is coming to South Florida October 5th - 10th!

🎟️ Tickets and info at: AfroPrideFlorida.org

🎉 Join The McKenzie Project Inc, Transinclusive Group, and TransSOCIAL Inc. on Sunday, October 9, 2022 from 1pm-8pm at Carter Park in Fort Lauderdale for TransZone!

It's National Voter Registration Day! As many as

It's National Voter Registration Day!

As many as 1 in 4 eligible Americans are not registered to vote or don’t know if they are registered. Make sure you’re #VoteReady TODAY!

Check your registration status or get registered at the following links:

🗳️ Broward County: BrowardVotes.gov
🗳️ Miami-Dade County: IAmElectionReady.org
🗳️ Palm Beach County: VotePalmBeach.gov
🗳️ Anywhere in Florida: RegisterToVoteFlorida.gov
🗳️ In other states: NationalVoterRegistrationday.org/Register-to-Vote/

To be eligible to register to vote here in Florida you must:

• Be a citizen of the United States of America;
• Be a legal resident of Florida;
• Be a legal resident of the county in which you seek to be registered;
• Be at least 16 years old to preregister or at least 18 years old to register and vote;
• Not be a person who has been adjudicated mentally incapacitated with respect to voting in Florida or any other state without having the right to vote restored; and,
• Not be a person convicted of a felony without having your right to vote restored.

Today is National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day

Today is National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day, launched by The AIDS Institute to combat stigma faced by older Americans living with HIV and address aging-related challenges of HIV testing, prevention, and care. By 2030, it is estimated that up to 70% of the people living with HIV will be over 50.

For those living with HIV, HIV doesn’t define you as you age. Take care of your physical, mental, and emotional health, of which HIV is only one component.

If you're not living with HIV or don't know your current status, talk to your healthcare provider about PrEP and other prevention tools. Need help accessing PrEP or finding care? Transinclusive Group can help! Reach out at (954) 903-1297 ext 102.

💖💜💙 Bisexual+ Awareness Week begins today

💖💜💙 Bisexual+ Awareness Week begins today! 💖💜💙

National surveys show that more than 50% of LGBTQ+ people in America are bisexual, and we're here to show lots of love to ALL of our bi+ siblings this week and every week. Our queer community is big, diverse, and powerful, and we'll keep pushing back against stigma and discrimination for as long as it takes.

Bisexual advocate & author Robyn Ochs offers a great explanation about what bisexuality means for her:

"I call myself bisexual because I acknowledge that I have in myself the potential to be attracted – romantically and/or sexually – to people of more than one gender, not necessarily at the same time, not necessarily in the same way, and not necessarily to the same degree.

For me, the bi in bisexual refers to the potential for attraction to people with genders similar to and different from my own."

Our good friends at The Smile Trust are helping to

Our good friends at The Smile Trust are helping to provide vital relief to the residents of Jackson, Mississippi during the ongoing water crisis, and they need YOUR support today.

📍 Donations can be dropped off from 9:30am - 4:00pm Monday - Friday: 4300 NW 12th Ave, Miami, FL 33127

Items Needed:

✅ Filters that help balance turbidity levels
✅ Five gallon refillable water containers
✅ Large 25-50 gallon refillable water containers with spouts
✅ Water containers with spouts
✅ Disinfectant cleaner
✅ Body wipes
✅ Toilet paper
✅ Paper towels
✅ Hand sanitizer

📞 For more information, call 786-877-7826 or visit TheSmileTrust.org

“The Agency for Health Care Administration’s (

“The Agency for Health Care Administration’s (AHCA) ruling has been denounced by a team of legal and medical experts from Yale Law School, and the University of Texas Southwestern.

Gender affirming care is safe and lifesaving for our trans youth, with 77% of LGBTQ+ Florida voters polled strongly agreeing that ‘basic human rights for women and LGBTQ+ Floridians’ are being taken away by our elected officials.

AHCA must consider these peer-reviewed facts rather than pressure from politicians looking to score points for the next election. I ask that the 77% of LGBTQ+ and ally Florida voters who agree feel empowered to vote in our midterm elections on November 8th, to protect the rights of our trans community.

We must remember that freedom is a right owed to everyone, and none of us can be truly free unless we are all free.” — Tatiana Williams, Transinclusive Group Executive Director & Co-Founder

Read more from @GLAAD here: https://www.glaad.org/blog/florida-strips-estimated-9000-transgender-medicaid-recipients-life-saving-care

Our Transinclusive Group team congratulates our fr

Our Transinclusive Group team congratulates our friends at SAVE for hosting a memorable Champions of Equality Gala honoring individuals who have significantly advanced the cause of equality for the LGBTQ+ community. Hundreds gathered in Miami Beach this weekend from around the state and nation for an evening of community and a celebration of our collective power to advocate for a more equitable world.

This year's honorees included:

• Karla Hernandez-Mats - President, United Teachers of Dade
• Stacy Hyde - CEO, Broward House
• Georg Ketelhohn - Activist & Attorney, Siegfried Rivera
• Ana Navarro - Political Strategist & Commentator
• Lillian Tamayo, Former President/CEO, Planned Parenthood of South, East and North Florida

Join Transinclusive Group & The Pride Center on Se

Join Transinclusive Group & The Pride Center on September 23 at 6:30pm for an important Get Out The Vote Townhall with Florida State Senator Shevrin Jones! Voting helps to create lasting change in your community and around the nation.

Held in honor of National Voter Registration Day, it's time to get Florida voters fired up and ready to show up at the polls on November 8. Eligible individuals can register to vote at any time, but the deadline to register in order to participate in an upcoming election is 29 days before the election. That means if you plan to vote in the November General Election, you'll need to be registered to vote by October 11 this year! Voter registration will be available on-site during this event.

Location:
The Pride Center - Schubert Building Main Hall
2040 N Dixie Hwy
Wilton Manors, FL 33305

🚨 Breaking News: #LGBTQ+ and Health Advocacy Gr

🚨 Breaking News: #LGBTQ+ and Health Advocacy Groups are suing to block Florida's Anti-Trans Medicaid Health Care Rule

Southern Legal Counsel, Florida Health Justice Project, Lambda Legal, National Health Law Program, and international law firm Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP announced a federal lawsuit today on behalf of four plaintiffs, challenging Florida’s anti-transgender health care rule denying coverage for transgender Medicaid beneficiaries’ medically necessary gender-affirming medical care.

🔗 Read Southern Legal Counsel's Press Release: https://bit.ly/3QtMuSl

🔗 Meet the plaintiffs: https://bit.ly/3qhw1Ge

TOMORROW NIGHT: If you're part of our trans, nonbi

TOMORROW NIGHT: If you're part of our trans, nonbinary, and gender diverse community, please make plans to join us on Zoom this Thursday, September 8 for our 2nd Thursdays group meeting as we support each other, share resources, and have intentional conversations.

Register at: TransinclusiveGroup.org/Meetings/

Happy #LaborDay! Today we honor the American #Labo

Happy #LaborDay! Today we honor the American #LaborMovement and all of the many strengths & achievements of the workers who continue to shape America's future into one that uplifts #TransRights, #LGBTQRights, #WorkersRights, and equity for all.

Faith plays a major role in the lives of many Amer

Faith plays a major role in the lives of many Americans, and National Faith HIV/AIDS Awareness Day is a day to engage faith communities to work together for HIV/AIDS education, prevention, treatment, care, and support, and to reduce and eliminate stigma and discrimination.

Since 2017 when NFHAAD was first observed, RAHMA (Reaching All HIV+ Muslims in America) and its partners have led the events of this awareness day across the nation, reaching over 200,000 people from the Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Sikh, Hindu, and Baha’i communities across the U.S. to take a stand against stigma in their congregations and raise awareness on HIV.

On Women’s Equality Day, join us in committing t

On Women’s Equality Day, join us in committing to the ongoing fight for equality, bodily autonomy, and human rights as we continue our work to protect ALL women & femme folx. When we say all, we mean ALL: Trans, LGBTQ+, Queer, Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian & Pacific Islander, Immigrant, Disabled, Sex Worker, Living with HIV, Incarcerated, EVERY woman.

As we honor this day borne from the women’s suffrage movement, those origins serve as a reminder that the fight for equality must be intersectional and must continue until ALL women enjoy full access to equitable rights, safety, and opportunity. Although this day is often referred to by many people as the day women won the right to vote in 1920, it's vital that we center the fact that this right was only extended to SOME women in 1920. 102 years later, systemic barriers and discrimination STILL prevent countless women from having equitable access to voting and so many other essential human rights.

On August, 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment was certified, outlawing the denial of voting rights upon the basis of sex, but this law did not enfranchise all women equally. While this extended the right to vote to *some* women, many were still excluded around the nation - particularly Black women. Despite being a powerful force of leadership in the fight for voting rights and equality, millions of Black women were still blocked from voting. Decades of segregation, anti-Black racism, racial terrorism, and discrimination continued to disenfranchise Black women and other women of color.

Although the 24th Amendment, passed in 1962, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlawed many of the deeply discriminatory practices southern states had adopted including poll taxes and literacy tests, the fight for equal access to not only voting rights, but to full and equitable human rights continues to this day. Until all of our siblings have Equality, Rights, Jobs, Housing, Justice, Safety, Bodily Autonomy, Liberation, Joy, Healthcare, Representation, and Opportunity, the work must continue.

TONIGHT: Join us virtually at 7pm on Thursday, Aug

TONIGHT: Join us virtually at 7pm on Thursday, August 25 for Transinclusive Group's Open Night Thursdays group meeting on Zoom! At this meeting we'll be having an intentional conversation about the impact of bullying.

Register at: Transinclusivegroup.org/Meetings/

Our group meetings are held twice a month, with meetings on the second Thursday open to Transgender, Nonbinary, and Gender Diverse individuals and meetings on the last Thursday open to the entire LGBTQ+ community and allies. Meetings are currently being held on Zoom.

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