How to submit The resolution
STEP ONE: THE FORM
The form for the DFL is available on the DFL website as a fillable PDF. Click below to access the form. Fill out the top half of the form with your information. You can find your district information at the button to the right.
STEP Two: Category
This is going to seem counterintuitive, but the section of the platform we are changing is NOT Race, LGBTQ, and Economic Justice.
Check the box next to Civil, Human, and Constitutional Rights. This is the section we are changing.
STEP Three: THE Wording
The Resolution Title is “Rights to Gender Affirming Care.” Please copy and paste the wording below into the resolution box.
The Resolution Language:
Amend the section on Civil, Human, and Constitutional Rights to include the following language about gender affirming care: “the rights of trans, non-binary, and two-spirit individuals to access gender affirming care” so that the section will now read as follows:
Government interference in all matters related to the control of one’s own body, including protections of the rights of women to bear children, practice birth control and obtain safe and legal abortions, the rights of trans, non-binary, and two-spirit individuals to access gender affirming care, and the rights of patients and their families, guardians, and physicians to honor a decision not to extend life by artificial means.
STEP Four: THE support
We’ve provided some suggested language below for the explanation of support. Feel free to write your own explanation or borrow ours.
We are in a moment where trans rights and trans individuals are being targeted by policies from the highest levels of government. Minnesota has laws making us a trans refuge state that will not cooperate with investigations into care administered here sought by people from states where it is banned. It is unconscionable that protection of trans rights to that care has not been explicitly adopted into our platform document and it is incumbent upon the party to take an unequivocal stand on this issue by incorporating it into our platform.
ON CAUCUS NIGHT
Submit your resolution when prompted to by your chair! There may be a small debate - three people are allowed to speak for the resolution and three against. Your precinct will then take a vote and either pass or decline the resolution.
We will have a form for you to fill out once caucuses are over so we can track where the resolution passed. Thank you!
Suggested resolution two: Abolish ICE
The federal government’s occupation of the Twin Cities metro has thrown into stark relief the need to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement and dismantle the Department of Homeland Security. The team here at A Better DFL is fully in support of doing so, and prosecuting Kristi Noem for her crimes in engaging in chemical warfare, illegal searches and seizures, assault and murder, and terrorism of communities across the US.
We know “Abolish ICE” is going to be brought forward at caucuses, and so want to provide some suggested wording for you.
Under the section “Government Accountability to the public,” we suggest a resolution titled:
“The Abolition of ICE.”
Add the following wording under “We Support”: “The complete and total abolition of the Immigrant and Customs Enforcement Agency, and the dismantling of the Department of Homeland Security.”
For reasoning, you can write your own story of why ICE needs to be abolished.