Coordinate a biweekly action team that monitors and responds to legislation and policies restricting LGBTQ rights.

Run a biweekly action team focused on tracking and responding to legislation and policies that restrict the rights of LGBTQ people. This includes healthcare bans, bathroom restrictions, forced outing policies in schools, adoption and foster care discrimination, attacks on legal recognition of gender identity, military service bans, religious exemption laws, and restrictions on public performance and expression.

The scope is broad. Hundreds of anti-LGBTQ bills are filed every year across dozens of states, plus an increasing number at the federal level. The facilitator does not need to cover everything. Each meeting, pick a focus: a specific bill, a pattern across states, a policy change, or a community that needs support. Coordinate the team's response and move on to the next one.

Responses can include writing to local, state, and national representatives, reaching out to local press, sharing accurate information on social media, and contacting school boards and other institutions to encourage them to protect LGBTQ students and community members. The team also supports participants who are interested in running for local office or serving on school boards.

The group meets every other week to coordinate, divide up tasks, share updates, and plan the next round of outreach. Off-weeks are for carrying out the work.

The group caps at 15 participants.

Essential skills:

• Ability to monitor news and organizational alerts for anti-LGBTQ legislation and policy changes
• Strong written communication skills for letters, emails, and social media
• Comfort coordinating group tasks and keeping a team organized
• Willingness to engage with contentious and emotionally charged political topics

NOT required:

• Legal expertise or policy background
• Prior advocacy or lobbying experience

Operative must provide:

• An account with the digital platform that will host the team meetings
• Monitoring of news and organizational alerts for anti-LGBTQ legislation
• Coordination of team outreach between meetings
• Promotion and participant recruitment for the team

MFU will provide:

• An interest form on the MFU website to help identify the best times for the meetings
• A scheduling app on the MFU website that allows people to sign up for the team
• A channel on the MFU Discord server for coordination and discussion
• Template letters and outreach guides, if needed
• Promotion and participant recruitment for the team

You are welcome to use these sources to help you get started:

• The ACLU's anti-LGBTQ legislation tracker maps attacks on LGBTQ rights in state legislatures nationwide, updated regularly with bill status, state-by-state breakdowns, and filtering by issue area.
• Trans Legislation Tracker provides detailed data on anti-trans bills across the country, categorized by theme (healthcare, sports, bathrooms, education, civil rights, and more), with the full text of each bill linked.
• GLAAD's legislative overview covers current anti-LGBTQ bills and highlights state-level organizing efforts and activist mobilizations that are successfully defeating bills.
• TransLash Media's Legislation Dashboard provides a visual overview of anti-trans legislation with links to deeper data at Trans Legislation Tracker. TransLash also publishes journalism centering trans voices and pushing back on disinformation.

For general questions, you can message your handler through your dashboard, contact @Owlett on Discord, or email info@myflyinguniversity.org.

If you have an idea for a different approach to all or part of this mission, please feel free to reach out before you get started!