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Declaring March 31, 2023 as International Transgender Day of Visibility in the City of Philadelphia.
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WHEREAS, We celebrate transgender, non-binary, and gender expansive Philadelphians. We honor their vibrancy, their resilience, and their ability to imagine, to live, and to lead us to a life outside of the stringent gender binary. We denounce growing efforts to criminalize the existence and care of our transgender, non-binary, and gender expansive neighbors; and
WHEREAS, International Transgender Day of Visibility takes place annually on March 31st to celebrate transgender and non-binary people and raise awareness of discrimination and oppression faced by trans people worldwide; and
WHEREAS, We recognize that visibility alone is not enough. Until we have justice and equity for transgender and non-binary people, visibility will always carry some risk and may not be
possible for all. Recent advances in equity and visibility won by transgender and non-binary advocates include expanding nondiscrimination protections for transgender Americans in housing, healthcare, credit, lending, and education, government funding for trans healthcare, and increasing the visibility of transgender people in critical leadership roles. Despite hard-earned victories led by trans and non-binary leaders, there is a growing hateful and proto-genocidal the effort to ban discussion and expression, invasively police bodies, regulate appearance, and deny life-saving medical care. This cruel and abhorrent campaign has had a profound effect on the health and physical safety of trans and non-binary folks, particularly trans women of color; and
WHEREAS, Civil rights victories won by trans activists have expanded judicial and legislative recognition of the fundamental rights for gender identity and expression and provided a greater number of people with the basic protections needed to ensure human dignity and self-determination. However, these rights are currently under extreme th...
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