Friend, the beginning of June marks the arrival of an important occasion: LGBTQ Pride Month.

Pride is a time to reflect on how far we’ve come in the fight for LGBTQ equality, celebrate our LGBTQ family, and recommit to the continuing march forward.

So I want to share with you my LGBTQ rights agenda to combat discrimination and ensure that every LGBTQ person can live freely and safely in America. It encompasses four areas: equal rights under the law, families and children, health care, and safety.

I hope you’ll take a look at my agenda and then consider donating to help guarantee my spot on the Democratic debate stage so I can make sure LGBTQ rights are talked about as a priority.

Friend, this is a long email, but I hope you’ll read through, because this is crucially important.

I’m proud to have stood with the LGBTQ community my entire career. And LGBTQ Americans deserve a president who will always stand with them and protect their civil rights—without hesitation. Unfortunately, what they have right now is a bigoted, cowardly bully who only makes the LGBTQ community more vulnerable.

We can’t allow hateful people, no matter how powerful they are, to roll back decades of progress. So as president, I would undo President Trump’s damage and defend the civil rights of LGBTQ Americans.

And we need to permanently secure the gains LGBTQ Americans have made, and relentlessly strive to expand equal rights and opportunity for all. So I’ll push for proactive policies to ensure all Americans can live free from discrimination and bigotry based on their gender identity or sexual orientation.

Here are a few key points from my agenda—but I hope you’ll read the full version for more:

• I would immediately rescind Trump’s hateful and harmful ban on transgender people serving openly in our military and I would charge the Department of Defense to end discrimination against service members in our military living with HIV.

• I would direct my Department of Justice to consider gender identity and sexual orientation a protected class to prevent discrimination in any area of public life. I would prioritize the enforcement of that policy by hiring DOJ attorneys to focus specifically and exclusively on eradicating anti-LGBTQ discrimination.

• I would move to federally recognize a third gender in identification documents and create an “X” designation on ID cards for Americans who don’t feel comfortable with a “male” or “female” designation.

• I would move to permanently codify marriage equality as the law of the land and ensure that Obergefell v. Hodges can never be overturned.

• I would enact a nationwide ban on “conversion therapy,” finally outlawing this despicable, torturous practice in the 32 states that have yet to do so.

• Every American should be able to live freely in their gender identity and get the medical care prescribed by health care professionals, so I would ensure health insurance plans do not single out and exclude treatments for transgender patients. And I would make sure equal care is available to all Americans, including veterans, members of the military, and those in correctional facilities.

• Hate crimes are rising in America, and trans women of color are being killed at disproportionately high rates. We need to address this crisis not only by condemning homophobia and transphobia that emboldens this violence, but also by directing DOJ resources to tracking and prosecuting hate crimes against LGBTQ people and people of color.

Here’s my biggest commitment of all: I won’t stop at the policies I’ve outlined when it comes to fighting for LGBTQ families and individuals. The LGBTQ community is not a monolith with a finite set of needs, and equal rights and freedom from discrimination should be the bare minimum we accept.

And if you’re with me, I’d appreciate if you can chip in to my campaign—even $1 helps—so I can build a campaign strong enough to boost me to the debate stage, where I’ll talk about these issues and more:

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/kg-email

Thank you, and happy Pride!

Kirsten