Press Releases

Reps. Sara Jacobs (CA-51), Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), and Mark Takano (CA-39), and Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI) introduced legislation to commemorate Transgender Day of Visibility on March 31st, recognize the many achievements and progress made by people in the transgender and gender non-conforming communities, and affirm their human rights.

Chair Takano calls GOP effort “poisoned, partisan pony show”

Today, Republicans on the House Committee on Education and Workforce advanced H.R. 7661, a federal “Don’t Say Trans” bill, out of committee. Following the vote, Congressional Equality Caucus Chair Rep. Mark Takano (CA-39) released the following statement:

Following the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) reversal of its landmark decision in the transgender rights case, Lusardi v. Department of the Army (2015), Congressional Equality Caucus Chair Rep. Mark Takano (CA-39) released the following statement:

Today, Equality Caucus Co-Chair Rep. Becca Balint (VT-AL), Transgender Equality Task Force Co-Chairs Rep. Pramila Jayapal (WA-07) and Rep. Sara Jacobs (CA-51), and Equality Caucus Vice Chairs Rep. Maxine Dexter (OR-03), Rep. Andrea Salinas (OR-06), and Rep. Mike Quigley (IL-05) led 106 Members of Congress in a comment letter opposing two rules proposed by the Trump Administration that would decimate access to medically-necessary care for young transgender people:

After the House Judiciary Committee advanced H.R. 1028, the so-called “Protection of Women in Olympic and Amateur Sports Act,” which would be more aptly titled the “Sexual Predator Empowerment Act,” Congressional Equality Caucus Chair Rep. Mark Takano, CEC Co-Chair Rep. Becca Balint, and CEC Transgender Equality Task Force Co-Chair Rep. Pramila Jayapal released the following statements:

Today, the leadership of the Congressional Reproductive Freedom Caucus (RFC), Congressional Equality Caucus (CEC), Democratic Women’s Caucus (DWC), Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC), Congressional Asian and Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC), and Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) released the following joint statement in response to the Trump administration’s unprecedented expansion of the Mexico City Policy, or Global Gag Rule:

Thursday, January 22, Democratic Women’s Caucus (DWC) Chair Teresa Leger Fernández (NM-03), Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus Chair Grace Meng (NY-06), Congressional Equality Caucus Chair Mark Takano (CA-39), Congressional Hispanic Caucus Chair Adriano Espaillat (NY-13), and Congressional Black Caucus Chair Yvette D. Clarke (NY-09) released the following statement on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)’s expected rescission of the EEOC’s Enforcement Guidance on Harassment in the Workplace. This rescission follows the EEOC failure to respond or engage with a November letter from Democratic Caucus leaders, which called on the agency to retain the guidance and protect women and vulnerable workers.