CNN’s planning a 2020 LGBTQ forum. Here are some issues advocates say the candidates should address.

A outstanding LGBTQ rights group, the Human Rights Marketing campaign (HRC) introduced Thursday that it’s going to host a presidential city corridor on LGBTQ points subsequent month. The occasion will air on CNN.

LGBTQ advocacy teams advised ThinkProgress that they know precisely what concepts they need to hear mentioned on the city corridor set for Oct. 10, which is Nationwide Coming Out Day. Many stated that at first, they need candidates to acknowledge the struggles of essentially the most marginalized in the neighborhood, together with LGBTQ individuals of colour, and put ahead insurance policies to reply to anti-LGBTQ bias within the felony justice system.

“LGBTQ individuals are extra more likely to come into contact with the police attributable to discriminatory policing, be incarcerated, and expertise violence whereas locked up than non-LGBTQ individuals. Black and Latinx LGBTQ individuals are most impacted,” Tyrone Hanley, senior coverage counsel for the Nationwide Middle for Lesbian Rights, advised ThinkProgress.

Hanley stated that aspirants to the White Home should put felony justice reform as one of many points topping their listing. “Candidates should display an understanding that anti-LGBTQ discrimination and violence is impacted by problems with race, gender, and sophistication simply as they’re for different communities,” he stated.

The city corridor comes at a vital time, because the Trump administration has rolled again health-care protections for transgender individuals and protections for transgender college students, applied a ban on transgender individuals within the army, and proposed a rule that permits broad non secular exemptions for companies with federal contracts.

Sens. Kamala Harris (D-CA), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA); former Vice President Joe Biden; South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, and former Housing and City Growth Secretary Julián Castro have accepted the invitation to the city corridor, and others might but be a part of them.

HRC invited candidates who attain at the very least 2% in 4 nationwide polls chosen by the Democratic Nationwide Committee (DNC) and who’ve met the DNC’s threshold of 130,000 distinctive donors.

The candidates will reply questions from CNN journalists and the members of the viewers at back-to-back city halls over the course of the night. LGBTQ advocates have a broad vary of points on their listing of matters they need to see mentioned.

Shannon Minter, authorized director of the Nationwide Middle for Lesbian Rights, stated he’d prefer to see how every candidate stands on reversing the president’s ban on army service by transgender troops. Minter stated he would love the candidates to acknowledge that well being care, poverty, and meals insecurity are all LGBTQ points.

And, he added, the candidates also needs to display how they might stick with it the progress of the Obama administration in the case of tackling the problem of conversion remedy, applications during which younger individuals are advised they will and may change their sexual orientation and in some instances, their gender. The American Medical Affiliation has said conversion remedy, particularly in youth, might trigger important psychological misery.

“Whereas regulating that problem falls primarily to the states, President Obama’s Division of Well being and Human Companies issued a groundbreaking report on the harms induced to minors by conversion remedy in 2015 that has performed a key position in supporting state laws,” Minter stated.

“We’d very very like to see candidates pledge to proceed and broaden such academic efforts. The president’s voice is highly effective, and we urgently want nationwide management on this problem, which poses such a extreme risk to the well being and well-being of LGBTQ youth.”

Stacey Lengthy Simmons, director of advocacy and motion for the Nationwide LGBTQ Process Pressure, echoed the views of others in saying that the presidential candidates ought to concentrate on the group’s most weak populations.

“Once we are having conversations with policymakers, we sometimes ask about points affecting members of our group who’re most deeply marginalized and specifically fascinated about individuals who might have a number of marginalized identities,” Lengthy Simmons stated.

“They might be undocumented or transgender or gender-nonconforming. They might be racial minorities or non secular minorities. All of these issues are issues we have a tendency to focus on after we’re in conversations with individuals,” she stated.

She added that candidates have to grasp how all points connect with the LGBTQ group and roll again most of the anti-LGBTQ insurance policies of the Trump administration, which have undone a lot of the work of the Obama administration to bolster LGBTQ rights.

“There’s not a difficulty on the market that’s being mentioned that doesn’t straight influence members of our group,” she stated.

“We’d need to be concerned in as some ways doable to form coverage as a result of we all know that, given the way in which society is structured, whether or not it’s local weather change or healthcare coverage or felony justice coverage, all the issues decision-makers put out have an effect on our group and so we need to be sure they don’t worsen a few of the situations we’re presently grappling with.”

In a press release to ThinkProgress, Sharon McGowan, chief technique officer and authorized director at Lambda Authorized, stated that candidates want to clarify how they might use “all the instruments at their disposal,” together with the bully pulpit, govt powers, and legislative acton the place doable to deal with and reverse the insurance policies of the Trump administration.

McGowan stated of those insurance policies, “These harms embrace this administration’s weaponization of faith as an enemy of civil rights protections for LGBTQ individuals (amongst others), and the methods during which this administration has taken goal on the most weak in our group, together with transgender individuals, younger individuals, and LGBTQ individuals of colour.”

She stated Lambda Authorized would additionally prefer to see the candidates “focus on the injury that has been achieved to the federal judiciary by the appointment of scores of anti-LGBTQ ideologues to lifetime positions on the federal bench, and the way they intend to deal with this disaster.”

As different organizations have stated, McGowan stated candidates want to grasp that every one coverage points, whether or not they be protected faculties, police misconduct, and therapy in authorities custody, are all LGBTQ points.

In his assertion saying the city corridor, HRC President Alphonso David said that regardless of monumental positive aspects up to now decade, there stay quite a few areas the place LGBTQ individuals face discrimination and downsides “due to who we’re.”

“Immediately, in 30 states, LGBTQ individuals stay liable to being fired, evicted, or denied providers due to who we’re. Thirty-five states have but to ban the harmful and debunked apply of ‘conversion remedy,’ which is harming our younger individuals. Hate crimes are rising, and greater than 100 transgender individuals — most of whom are transgender girls of colour — have been killed in the USA within the final 5 years,”  David stated.

Many Democratic candidates acknowledged the LGBTQ group in the course of the first presidential debate in June. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) stated that violence in opposition to transgender individuals of colour was a severe problem that the nation wants to deal with. Not less than 16 transgender individuals have been killed this yr, according to HRC, and the overwhelming majority of those murders had been of black trans girls. Final yr, there have been at the very least 26 killings of transgender individuals.

Castro known as for making well being care inclusive to trans individuals, though he misspoke about which trans individuals ought to be thought-about when he talked about reproductive justice. Warren used inclusive language to debate how the economic system isn’t working for Latinx individuals. Klobuchar additionally talked about shifting attitudes in marriage equality.

A number of candidates for the Democratic nomination have launched plans up to now few months on how they plan to sort out coverage points that have an effect on the LGBTQ group.

Warren released proposals and insurance policies designed to advance LGBTQ rights. Her concepts included supporting the Equality Act, reversing President Donald Trump’s army trans ban, a vow to “shield civil rights for transgender individuals,” outlawing conversion remedy, reversing the State Division’s denial of household visas to same-sex home companions of diplomats, and ending discrimination in opposition to queer males who’re presently barred from donating blood.

Warren tweeted in August a few trans lady of colour who died in isolation at Rikers Island, “Let’s be clear: Layleen Cubilette-Polanco ought to nonetheless be alive. Solitary confinement is merciless and inhumane. We should finish this apply, implement strict requirements for medical care, and supply additional layers of safety for LGBTQ+ individuals.”

Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) has launched his plan to battle for LGBTQ rights, which included reversing the trans army ban, directing the Justice Division to research crimes in opposition to transgender individuals, particularly trans girls of colour, and ensuring that LGBTQ individuals are included in federal knowledge assortment efforts.

Final month, a few of the candidates spoke about the wants of transgender People with the Nationwide Middle for Transgender Equality (NCTE) Motion Fund for its Remodel the White Home initiative.

Booker and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) spoke at size about their method to advancing transgender equality. They spoke on points corresponding to rolling again Trump administration insurance policies that undid a lot of the progress of the Obama administration on transgender equality, violence in opposition to transgender individuals and the felony justice system, and financial insurance policies that will enhance trans individuals’s lives.

In later interviews, Castro and Klobuchar spoke with the Nationwide Middle for Transgender Equality Motion Fund. Castro mentioned discrimination in opposition to transgender individuals in housing, the big share of homeless youth who’re LGBTQ, and the detainment of transgender immigrants.

Klobuchar said she would reverse the trans army ban in her first 100 days and touted her assist of nationwide nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ individuals through the years.