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February 2021 | PFLAG Council of Northern Illinois Newsletter Opendoors@Pflagillinois.Org Keith Haring artwork © Keith Haring Foundation – Silence = Death, 1989, Silkscreen – Used by Permission February 2021 | PFLAG Council of Northern Illinois Newsletter [email protected] Monthly SUBSCRIBE Open Doors HAPPY NEW YEAR 2021 Greetings PFLAG Friends! 3) Sign the petition in support of this bill. Here is the link to sign: Petition link I wish you all a very happy new year and hope that 4) Do what PFLAG people do best, Tell Your Story. 2021 brings us all a year of health, progress and joy. I One thing that we have learned is that everyone truly hope that, with your help, 2021 can be a year of has a story when it comes to how they learned positive influence and change. In that spirit, I am sex ed. Some stories are funny, some people happy to inform you of an education initiative in weren't given any kind of sex education, and Illinois and an opportunity for you to engage and help some stories lead to long term harm. Whatever out. your story, wherever you live - you can help change the conversation on sex education and Currently, only 30 states require educational help us pass the Illinois REACH Act so that we instruction about personal health and safety. Sadly, can equip the next generation with the Illinois is not among those states. We believe that our information that they need to have healthy youth deserve better. So, we are pleased to say that the relationships and to stay safe. Sign on to tell PFLAG Council of Northern Illinois (PCNI) has joined your story at this link: Storytelling link in with over 30 other organizations in support of the The Responsible Education for Adolescent and Children’s Health Act (REACH) Act, which will require age-appropriate, comprehensive, and inclusive personal health and safety education to be taught in public schools in grades K-12. There are many ways you can help support this initiative: 1) Learn more about the REACH Act. Be sure to check out the REACH Act fact sheet below. PCNI is also pleased to be co-hosting with Planned Parenthood of Illinois to provide a “Policy Deep Dive Session on the REACH Act” on Tuesday, February 9th at 5:30pm. I hope you will join us in supporting this initiative Registration link for the Feb by getting informed, signing the petition, sharing 9th Session: bit.ly/ActivistU-5 your story, and letting your legislators know that 2) Learn how to lobby your state legislators. Below is you support the REACH Act, The children of a Tip Sheet for an effective meeting with your Illinois deserve comprehensive, inclusive health public official. Also, don’t miss the opportunity to and safety education. Stay tuned for future updates participate in the Planned Parenthood “Virtual and information. You can also sign up to stay Lobby Day” on March 2nd at 9 am. Click here to sign up and learn more about other educational informed via email from our patners Planned opportunities. bit.ly/ActivistU Parenthood of Illinois and Equality Illinois (click In addition, Mike Ziri, Director of Policy at Eq IL these links). has agreed to host a special PFLAG session for “How to Contact and Communicate with Warmest wishes, your Elected Officials” on Monday, March 8th at 7 pm. Sign up here to participate: John http://bit.ly/PFLAG-EQIL John Hickey President, PFLAG Council of Northern Illinois February 2021 | PFLAG Council of Northern Illinois Newsletter 2 Stay Informed- Join our Partner Email Lists at: • Planned Parenthood of Illinois- Click the link below and select “Sign Up for Email Alerts”: https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/planned-parenthood-illinois-action/take-action • Equality Illinois- Click the link below and then“Get Involved”, and then “Stay Informed”: https://www.equalityillinois.us/category/get-inlvoved/ Effective meetings with your public official: • Are conducted in-district, where an elected official is less distracted and can offer you more time • Involve personal stories and data • Consist of 3-4 people. Don’t get too big or the meeting could become unwieldy and unmanageable. Before your meeting: • Write down what you want to say and practice. • You don’t have to be the issue expert, but identify key data to share with the elected official • Sketch a compelling personal story about why you support or oppose a particular policy or position. Your personal story should: • Connect with values • Share something personal about your life or someone close to you • Have a connection to the elected official or their district or community • Make a case for the elected official to share your position on the policy item During the Visit After the Visit • Introduce yourself. • Send a thank you letter to the legislator for meeting with you and to remind them of the conversation and your ask. • Try to start on a positive note by finding common ground. For example, if your legislator recently voted in support of a pro-LGBTQ issue, thank them. • Maintain ongoing communication with legislators and their staff through letters, calls, and visits. • Tell a compelling personal story and support it with data. Explain how the legislation affects you, your family, or your friends; make sure legislators understand the personal ramifications or benefits resulting from their actions. • Ask them to take a specific action, like sponsoring a bill or voting for or against a pending measure. • Thank the legislator as you leave. DO DON’T • Do feel like the expert of your own story and experiences. • Don’t feel like you have to be the policy expert on an issue. • Do learn the legislators’ position and ask why they take that position. • Don’t overload a legislative visit with too many issues. • Do show openness to the knowledge of counterarguments and respond to • Don’t confront, threaten, pressure, or beg. them. • Don’t be argumentative. Speak with calmness and commitment so as not to • Do admit when you don't know. Offer to try to find the answer and send put the legislator on the defensive. information to their office. • Don’t expect members to be specialists. • Do spend time with legislators whose position is opposite ours. You can decrease the intensity of the opposition and perhaps change it. • Don’t make promises you can’t deliver. • Do spend time in developing relationships with the legislative staff. • Don’t be afraid to take a stand on the issues. • Don’t shy away from meetings with legislators with known views opposite your own. • Don’t be offended if a legislator is unable to meet and requests that you meet with their staff. February 2021 | PFLAG Council of Northern Illinois Newsletter 3 February 2021 | PFLAG Council of Northern Illinois Newsletter 4 February 2021 | PFLAG Council of Northern Illinois Newsletter 5 From PFLAG National • Immigration reform. PFLAG National will work in support of an immigration system that: FEDERAL o Welcomes immigrants and keeps families In The First 100 Days of the Biden together; Administration, PFLAG National will pursue o Grants a pathway to citizenship for people passage of: with temporary status, including DACA recipients; and • The Equality Act (HR 5) is expected to be o Delivers detention reform, focusing on Latinx introduced in the House in the next few weeks, with and transgender people. action in the Senate to follow later. PFLAG National will work to get the Equality Act passed by both • Transgender military service. PFLAG National chambers of the 117th Congress and signed into law by has consistently fought to establish open military the President. The Equality Act will be the same bill service for Transgender people, which we will text (linked above) as it was in the 116th Congress. advocate to establish in the First 100 Days by Executive Order. We will then work with the • The For the People Act (HR 1) has been Administration through enactment and introduced. The bill includes provisions on voting implementation to protect trans service members and access and justice for LGBTQ+ people, other their dependents. marginalized communities and our families. • Reducing anti-transgender violence. PFLAG PFLAG National Ongoing Federal Priorities: National will work to establish an interagency working group to prioritize study of and action to address the • Ending discrimination. PFLAG National will work epidemic of violence and murder of transgender for the full implementation across all federal agencies’ people, especially Black and Latina/x women and civil rights offices of SCOTUS’s Bostock decision. nonbinary people. • Title IX support, safety and well-being for • LGBTQ+ Data Collection. PFLAG National will LGBTQ+ students. PFLAG National will continue advocate for uniform federal data collection to be working to create comprehensive and robust prioritized, inclusive of LGBTQ+ people, across guidelines for trans and nonbinary students as well as federal agencies. advocating for the Safe Schools Improvement Act, not yet introduced, but active in the 116th Congress. • Banning conversion therapy. PFLAG National will continue to work to prohibit the harmful practice • Data-driven response to COVID-19. PFLAG of conversion therapy by recognizing it as consumer National will work to drive education and awareness fraud as a business practice. of public health measures being implemented to combat COVID-19 at the national, state, and local levels. President Biden’s comprehensive COVID-19 COURT plan was rolled out on Day 2, and many Executive Orders on Day 1 gave evidence-based actions to take Supreme Court rejects challenge to Oregon school regarding prevention, including vaccine education district’s bathroom policy. SCOTUS rejected without and access, and a mask mandate. an explanation a petition request to review a legal • Advocating for inclusive and comprehensive challenge against an Oregon school district’s inclusive healthcare.
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