The ACLU of Wyoming's Communications Director would love to speak with you. Janna Farley handles queries from reporters on local, state, and national civil liberties issues. ACLU of Wyoming team members can provide information and assist journalists by lending important perspectives on issues such as LGBTQ advocacy, abortion rights, criminal justice reform, and more.
We send people to Cheyenne to solve actual problems in our state, not to find ways to spread discriminatory rhetoric about trans youth or to insert themselves into private medical decisions like abortion.
Everyone deserves the right to control their own bodies and to make their own decisions about their lives and futures, free from punishment, judgment or political interference.
Public insurance bans are government-imposed barriers to abortion access, the same as any other restriction that makes it difficult or impossible for people to obtain abortions.
A number of bills up for debate in the Wyoming legislature would add unnecessary restrictions on obtaining and casting an absentee ballot and will not make Wyoming elections more secure but rather make it harder for people to vote.
Senate File 133 is not about leveling the playing field for student athletes. It’s about erasing and excluding trans people from participation in all aspects of public life.
By labeling medical care supported by every major medical association – including the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Medical Association – as child abuse, Wyoming legislators are is compromising the health of trans youth in dangerous and potentially life-threatening ways.