Biden Issues Transgender Day of Visibility Proclamation – Georgia Voice – Gay & LGBT Atlanta News

     Transgender Day of Visibility celebrates the enjoyment, power, and absolute braveness of a few of the bravest folks I do know — individuals who have too typically needed to put their jobs, relationships, and lives on the road simply to be their true selves. At the moment, we present tens of millions of transgender and nonbinary People that we see them, they belong, and they need to be handled with dignity and respect. Their braveness has given numerous others power, however nobody ought to need to be courageous simply to be themselves. Each American deserves that freedom.

Transgender People form our Nation’s soul — proudly serving within the army, curing lethal ailments, holding elected workplace, working thriving companies, preventing for justice, elevating households, and rather more. As youngsters, they deserve what each baby deserves: The prospect to be taught in protected and supportive faculties, to develop significant friendships, and to dwell brazenly and truthfully. As adults, they deserve the identical rights loved by each American, together with equal entry to well being care, housing, and jobs and the prospect to age with grace as senior residents. However at present, too many transgender People are nonetheless denied these rights and freedoms. A wave of discriminatory state legal guidelines is focusing on transgender youth, terrifying households and hurting youngsters who usually are not hurting anybody. An epidemic of violence in opposition to transgender ladies and ladies, in explicit ladies and ladies of colour, has taken lives far too quickly. Final yr’s Membership Q capturing in Colorado was one other painful instance of this sort of violence — a stain on the conscience of our nation.

My administration has fought to finish these injustices from day one, working to make sure that transgender folks and the complete LGBTQI+ neighborhood can dwell brazenly and safely. On my first day as president, I issued an government order directing the federal authorities to root out discrimination in opposition to LGBTQI+ folks and their households. We have now appointed a file variety of brazenly LGBTQI+ leaders, and I used to be proud to rescind the ban on brazenly transgender folks serving within the army. We are additionally working to make public areas and journey extra accessible, together with with extra inclusive gender markers on United States passports. We’re bettering entry to public companies and entitlements like Social Safety. We’re cracking down on discrimination in housing and training. And final December, I signed the Respect for Marriage Act into regulation, making certain that each American can marry the particular person they love and have that marriage accepted, interval.

In the meantime, we’re additionally working to ease the great pressure that discrimination, bullying, and harassment can placed on transgender youngsters — greater than half of whom severely thought-about suicide within the final yr. The Division of Schooling is, for instance, serving to make sure that transgender college students have equal alternatives to be taught and thrive in school, and the Division of Justice is pushing again in opposition to excessive legal guidelines that search to ban evidence-based gender-affirming well being care.

There’s rather more to do. I proceed to name on the Congress to lastly move the Equality Act and prolong long-overdue civil rights protections to all LGBTQI+ People to make sure they’ll dwell with security and dignity. Collectively, we additionally need to hold difficult the a whole lot of hateful state legal guidelines which were launched throughout the nation, ensuring each baby is aware of that they’re made within the picture of God, that they’re cherished, and that we’re standing up for them.

America is based on the concept that all persons are created equal and need to be handled equally all through their lives. We have now by no means absolutely lived as much as that, however we’ve got by no means walked away from it both. At the moment, as we rejoice transgender folks, we additionally rejoice each American’s elementary proper to be themselves, bringing us nearer to realizing America’s full promise.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the USA of America, by advantage of the authority vested in me by the Structure and the legal guidelines of the USA, do hereby proclaim March 31, 2023, as Transgender Day of Visibility. I name upon all People to hitch us in lifting up the lives and voices of transgender folks all through our nation and to work towards eliminating violence and discrimination in opposition to all transgender, gender nonconforming, and nonbinary folks.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I’ve hereunto set my hand this thirtieth day of March, within the yr of our Lord two thousand twenty-three, and of the independence of the United States of America the 2 hundred and forty-seventh.
JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR.