LGBTQIA+ Justice: worker protections, healthcare, harm reduction, and anti-discrimination initiatives
Photo © Drew Arrieta
“Our city’s advocacy for LGBTQ+ residents is insufficient. On city council, I will fight for greater worker protections, healthcare, harm reduction, and anti-discrimination initiatives for LGBTQ+ Minneapolitans.” — Robin Wonsley Worlobah
Housing
Create fair housing for students and tenants, including eviction protection for LGBTQIA+ and other vulnerable residents
Incorporate trans-equity requirements in all grants to shelters, street-outreach providers, and other homelessness response organizations to make them more trans-competent.
Anti-Discrimination Protections
Support and strengthen anti-discrimination rights and protections for LGBTQIA+ residents within Department of Human Rights
Implement stronger regulation of labor practices and enforcement of anti-discrimination policies to protect LGBTQIA+ individuals’ civil rights
Resist recent anti-LGBTQIA+ proposals in the state legislature related to trans youth participating in athletics or the continued legality of the LGBTQIA+ panic defense.
Preserve the city’s ability to penalize discrimination by private and faith-based healthcare providers against LGBTQIA+ clients.
Inclusive Outreach & Training
Fund and mandate trauma informed gender and sexuality training for all city staff, departments, and committees.
Mandate Minneapolis’ Department of Health staff and the community partners with whom it contracts, to implement more comprehensive training around LGBTQIA+ needs.
Expand the Division of Race and Equity from one staff member responsible for all trans equity programming to include a team of advocates.
LGBTQIA+ Business and Safe Space Protections
Expand funding for the creation and sustainability of LGBTQIA+ small businesses.
Fight back against the displacement and/or demolition of LGBTQIA+ businesses and safe spaces.
Incentivize gender neutral bathroom construction and mandate it in ADA updates.
Health Care Access
Increase city funding to expand access to the quality healthcare LGBTQIA+ individuals need and deserve.
Fund networks of mental health providers and peers trained to engage and support LGBTQIA+ students and residents with housing insecurity, mental health, and substance abuse
Transportation
support training efforts that will provide transit workers with the skills and language necessary to make our transit space inclusive and to make sure that LGBTQIA+ people feel safe using public transportation
Expand subsidized transport such as TAP to more vulnerable riders, including the LGBTQIA+ community.
Photos © Drew Arrieta