When will there be political action?

Gender as a required field on government forms leads to further oppression of gender queer identities.

Gender Discrimination in the United States

There are currently no laws that protect LGBTQ+ individuals in the United States. Because of this injustice, LGBTQ+ people across the nation can be discriminated against because of their sexual or gender identity.

Gender discrimination, specifically regarding transgender and other gender queer identities, is an ongoing discussion in the current sociopolitical atmosphere. Many government forms require the gender of those filling them out to be specified; however, there are often only two gender selections on these documents, or the form requires the signee to check the box matching their sex that was assigned at birth.

Gender equality encompasses far more than adjusting the wage gap between men and women in the work place; gender equality is validating every person's gender identity and protecting their right to be themselves by law. This portfolio focuses specifically on the injustices gender queer people face in the state of Kentucky regarding the required field of expressing a binary gender on government forms.