.taylorswift13 called attention to trans and non-binary erasure on the 2020Census: “When you don’t collect information on a group of people, that means that you have every excuse in the world not to support them”
, an amendment to civil rights law that would provide blanket protections for LGBTQ+ people against discrimination in employment, housing, and more."The Equality Act has still not been passed, and that needs to happen."
"I got my census the other day, and there were two choices for gender," the singer continued."There was male and female. And that erasure was so upsetting to me, the erasure of transgender and nonbinary people. And when you don't collect information on a group of people, that means that you have every excuse in the world not to support them."Swift finished with a call to action, urging her audience to"continue fighting the good fight" by getting to the polls.
Check out Swift's full speech above, and find out more about Stonewall Day — a fundraiser for LGBTQ+ advocacy groups — and how to contribute
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