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Equality Florida Staff Serve on United States Commission on Civil Rights’ Florida Advisory Committee

Equality Florida, the state’s largest LGBTQ advocacy organization, hires a dynamic cohort of interns for the 2021 Summer term. The internship program includes various cities, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, and languages.

Equality Florida Join Families and Advocates of Transgender Youth to Condemn Signing of Transgender Youth Sports Ban

TALLAHASSEE, FL - Governor Ron DeSantis chose the beginning of Pride Month to sign the first anti-LGBTQ legislation to pass the Florida legislature in 23 years. DeSantis signed the Transgender Youth Sports Ban, barring trans youth from playing sports and allowing humiliating gender checks to be demanded by competitors.

Florida Sports Organizations Join Growing Opposition To Anti-Trans Youth Sports Ban

Miami Heat, esports giant Misfits Gaming Group, NCAA Decry Discriminatory Legislation

The City of Orlando Raises Transgender Pride Flag In Honor of The International Transgender Day of Visibility

The City also issued a proclamation and will light Lake Eola Fountain in trans colors in celebration

FL Legislature Risks Losing NCAA Events By Fast Tracking Trans Sports Bans

TALLAHASSEE, FL — Bills that are drawing universal criticism for seeking to ban transgender kids from playing sports in school may cause Florida to forfeit major sporting events.

TALLAHASSEE, FL — Lawmakers in the state legislature have joined in a national, coordinated effort to undermine the wellbeing of transgender youth, introducing legislation to bar those young people from participating in sports with their peers and criminalize doctors who provide affirming care. The bills (HB 1475, HB 935, SB 2012) are nothing short of an attack on at-risk youth designed to spread hateful stereotypes and further demonize a group of young people who need additional support and care.