Just Say NO to Attacks on Trans Youth

May 6, 2025

Chair Gordon, Chair Lewis, and Members of the Joint Committee on Education:

As a statewide grassroots advocacy group fighting for a more equitable, just, sustainable, and democratic commonwealth, Progressive Massachusetts urges you to give an adverse report to H.584, S.350, and H.737.

These bills would restrict the participation of trans student athletes in school sports, undermining their rights, safety, and dignity.

We at Progressive Mass are proud of MA’s civil rights protections for the trans community, which were overwhelmingly upheld on the ballot in 2018. MA voters were and are clear: we believe that our trans friends and neighbors deserve to be treated with basic dignity and respect.

The trans community has been under attack by the hateful administration in DC, and a swift rejection of these bills is an important way to show that we stand by trans youth and against bullying.

If the state legislators supporting these three bills feel the need to obsess over the genitalia of teenagers, then we kindly recommend that they seek help and leave that obsession out of the Massachusetts State House.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Cohn

Policy Director

Progressive Massachusetts

Send Two Emails to Support Students

The Joint Committee on Education has two upcoming hearings where your voice matters.

TODAY, they are holding a hearing on a wide array of bills, including a trio of hateful bills to discriminate against trans kids in high school sports.

NEXT MONDAY, they will be holding a hearing on bills related to school funding, including one of our priority bills, which would ensure that schools are able to benefit from the full promised funding from the recent update to the state’s education funding formula and don’t lose out because of high inflation.

We’ve created easy tools you can use to submit testimony to these hearings:

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