Last updated on December 20, 2025. For the most up-to-date guidance, please check our social and website.
Last updated on December 20, 2025. For the most up-to-date guidance, please check our social and website.
As our communities navigate the landscape following the 2024 election, we know that many are seeking guidance in an uncertain landscape and ways to engage in the work that is ahead.
We don’t have all the answers, but we have some, and we have each other.
It is essential that LGBTQIA+ Virginians and our allies know:
- We expect significant and sweeping actions that are harmful to LGBTQIA+ communities over the next several years, particularly during the first 100 days of this presidency.
- We anticipate that harmful policies and rhetoric will also lead to an uptick in individual acts of bullying, harassment, and violence.
- We know that many of these changes are likely to most acutely impact trans and gender expansive individuals, BIPOC members of our community, immigrants, asylum seekers, and those receiving government services.
- Many of the proposed federal actions will be litigated and may be delayed or stopped.
- Many of them will cause harm just by being proposed.
- Community commitment to protecting each other will help us resist many of these changes.
- Most true leaders are not elected, and many leaders - elected and otherwise - are committed to protecting our community.
- We have strong state-level statutory protections against discrimination. As we continue working to repeal the current definition of marriage in the Virginia Constitution, know that we are on a much stronger legal footing at the state level than we were just five years ago.
- Our communities are strong and resilient. We are going to need support, steadfast allies, and all the tools available to us, but we’ve got this.
