Transgender voters face significant barriers getting to the ballot box to cast a vote that counts. Chanel Riser’s story illustrates the variety of problems the transgender community continues to experience in legally changing their names and getting an ID to vote that reflects their chosen name and gender. Chanel — a 38-year-old hair stylist living […]
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Tracy Pease — VoteRiders’ Detroit Organizer — first learned the importance of organizing when she started going to union meetings with her father at the early age of six. After spending years of working as a volunteer organizer while juggling employment as a door-to-door salesperson and then a restaurant server, Tracy officially began her professional organizing […]
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Before Jey’nce knew about VoteRiders, changing her legal name felt like wishful thinking. But when she found out that her friend and ally — Tracy Pease — would be starting a new position at VoteRiders as Detroit Organizer, her hope reawakened. Everyone who knows Jey’nce Poindexter knows that she is a leader. The 38-year-old transgendered […]
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