66% of voters say that rehabilitation should be prioritized over incarceration.

How Programs like HEART Fund Care, Not Criminalization

This week (May 5-8) is ACLU Community Safety Week on Capitol Hill. We’re joining the ACLU in DC to demand Congress invests in prevention, not punishment.

400+ North Carolina Medical Providers Sign Letter Opposing Bills Targeting Transgender Youth

More than 400 medical professionals from across North Carolina released a statement expressing strong opposition to HB358, a bill that would prohibit transgender students from participating in school athletics at the middle school, high school, and collegiate levels.
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400+ North Carolina Medical Providers Sign Letter Opposing Bills Targeting Transgender Youth

More than 400 medical professionals from across North Carolina released a statement expressing strong opposition to HB358, a bill that would prohibit transgender students from participating in school athletics at the middle school, high school, and collegiate levels.

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ACLU of NC Joins Equality NC and the Campaign for Southern Equality in Denouncing Legislative Attacks on LGBTQ Community’s Access to Medical Care

One bill would prohibit trans-affirming care for anyone under the age of 21, while another would grant medical providers a broad “license to discriminate.”

Trans Rights Protest

Doctors Agree: Gender-Affirming Care is Life-Saving Care

Arkansas has become the first state to pass a bill banning health care for transgender youth and 16 other states have introduced similar legislation.

Demonstrators protesting anti-trans bills.

There’s a Lot That Can Go Wrong With ‘Vaccine Passports’

Any proposal for vaccine credentials must be primarily paper-based, decentralized, and protect privacy.

In this photo illustration, Excelsior Pass app which provides digital proof of COVID-19 vaccination or negative test results seen displayed on a smartphone screen in front of the US flag.

ACLU of North Carolina Condemns HB 358, N.C. Legislation Targeting Transgender, Intersex, and Gender-Nonconforming Student Athletes

Legislation seeking to ban transgender youth from participating in sports is part of an extreme agenda that seeks to eliminate trans, intersex, and gender-noncomforming people from public life. The ACLU of North Carolina will work inside and outside of the halls of the general assembly to stop...

Condemning HB 358

Lack of Full Statehood Rights Continues to Cause Harm to D.C. Residents

Our country must grant full and equal rights to the 712,000 residents of D.C.

A demonstrator holds up a sign advocating for statehood for Washington, D.C.

North Carolina Has Spent Decades Attacking Abortion Access. We’re Fighting Back.

In the post-Trump era — with the concern that the balance of the Supreme Court has shifted to an anti-abortion majority — states play an especially important role in protecting the right to abortion.

Protest signs advocating for abortion access.

Racial Justice and Civil Liberties: An Inseparable History at the ACLU

Over the past century, the ACLU’s work to combat racial discrimination has grown, evolved, and deepened.

Collage of images from the racial justice cases over the ACLU's history

How the Stimulus Can Help Decriminalize Poverty

Poverty isn't a moral failing, and it shouldn't be a crime.

A close-up of the corner of a stimulus check.