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Thanks for promoting the awareness for allies and lbgtqia If you missed it this year and want to help promote or be an ally here is some good info for next year.
Trans and Gender Non-Conforming Awareness Month - The Task Force
TRANS AND GENDER NON-CONFORMING AWARENESS MONTH
November 20th
November is Trans and Gender Non-Conforming Awareness Month, and while there’s a lot to celebrate about increased awareness for the transgender community, there are still urgent issues have to be addressed — issues that directly affect transgender lives every single day.
President Obama made history this year by being the first president to mention transgender people in a State of the Union Address. The Obama Administration has actually continued to show strong support for the transgender community: from coming out against conversion therapy after the suicide of Leelah Alcorn, to speaking out against the violence against transgender women of color.
Today we even have TV shows about trans peoples’ lives and shows that feature trans characters and actors. But despite this new found visibility, there’s been too little attention paid to the murders of transgender women, particularly transgender women of color, that are happening in America. It’s for this reason that we started our “Stop Trans Murders” campaign last year.
We also can’t forget the shocking rates of unemployment, homelessness and poverty experienced by trans people; rates that are way above those faced by the rest of the LGBTQ community and the general public. The solutions to these problems include everything from employers hiring more transgender people, to every level of government passing strong non-discrimination laws, to passing federal legislation that effectively tackles police profiling to not criminalizing people engaged in sex work.
Transgenders have an awareness month? I'm not buying another fucking bracelet. If I want to support them I'll pick up random prostitutes and ignore the Adam's apple like I always do.
The hips don't lie. lol
Reaching around...
"Please don't have a penis. Please don't have a penis. Gah! Tricked again."
You are aware that you plagiarizing someone else's words, right? You owe David Jeffrey Spetch an apology. lol