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Biden issues first Presidential Proclamation on Trans Day

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    Biden issues first presidential proclamation on Trans Day of Visibility
    “Today, we honor and celebrate the achievements and resiliency of transgender individuals and communities,” the president wrote.

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    President Biden delivers remarks at the White House on March 29, 2021.Jonathan Ernst / Reuters

    March 31, 2021, 10:37 AM CDT
    By Jo Yurcaba

    President Joe Biden on Wednesday issued the first presidential proclamation recognizing Transgender Day of Visibility.

    The day is dedicated to celebrating transgender people and bringing awareness to the discrimination and violence they face everyday.

    In his proclamation, Biden said Trans Day of Visibility recognizes the generations of activism by transgender and nonbinary people.

    “Their trailblazing work has given countless transgender individuals the bravery to live openly and authentically,” Biden wrote. “This hard-fought progress is also shaping an increasingly accepting world in which peers at school, teammates and coaches on the playing field, colleagues at work, and allies in every corner of society are standing in support and solidarity with the transgender community.”

    Despite progress for lesbian, gay, bisexual and queer Americans, such as marriage equality, Biden said trans people “still face systemic barriers to freedom and equality,” such as higher rates of violence, harassment and discrimination.

    Nearly 1 in 3 trans people have experienced homelessness, Biden wrote, and they also face discrimination in employment, housing, health care and public accommodations.

    “The crisis of violence against transgender women, especially transgender women of color, is a stain on our Nation’s conscience,” Biden said. Forty-four transgender people were killed in the United States last year, a record; 23 of them were Black trans women.

    Biden said his administration has already started implementing new policies to protect trans people, such as the executive order he issued on the first day of his presidency to expand discrimination protections for LGBTQ people under federal laws such as the Affordable Housing Act.

    He also mentioned “the first openly transgender American to be confirmed by the United States Senate” — Rachel Levine, the assistant secretary for health — and “patriotic transgender service members, who are once again able to proudly and openly serve their country” — a reference to his executive order undoing former President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender people serving in the military.

    But he also called on Congress to pass the Equality Act, a sweeping bill that would grant LGBTQ people protections from discrimination in employment, housing, education, credit, jury service and more.

    “To more fully protect the civil rights of transgender Americans, we must pass the Equality Act and provide long overdue Federal civil rights protections on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity,” Biden wrote. “It will serve as a lasting legacy to the bravery and fortitude of the LGBTQ+ movement.”

    From 2012 to 2014, the Obama administration recognized Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day each November dedicated to memorializing trans people who were killed.

    Trump did not recognize either Trans Day of Remembrance or Visibility, and for three of his four years as president, he also did not recognize or proclaim June LGBTQ Pride Month as Obama did throughout the eight years of his presidency.

    In June 2019, Trump recognized Pride Month for the first time in a series of tweets, writing, “My Administration has launched a global campaign to decriminalize homosexuality and invite all nations to join us in this effort!”

    Critics noted at the time that Trump had recently rolled back nondiscrimination protections in health care for trans people, and opposed passage of the Equality Act.

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    From The Military Times:

    Pentagon & Congress
    Reversing Trump, Pentagon releases new transgender policies
    Lolita C. Baldor, The Associated Press

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    A person holds a transgender pride flag as people gather on Christopher Street outside the Stonewall Inn for a rally to mark the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots in New York, June 28, 2019. (Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images)

    WASHINGTON — The Pentagon on Wednesday swept away Trump-era policies that largely banned transgender people from serving in the military, issuing new rules that offer them wider access to medical care and assistance with gender transition.

    The new department regulations allow transgender people who meet military standards to enlist and serve openly in their self-identified gender, and they will be able to get medically necessary transition-related care authorized by law, chief Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told reporters during a briefing.

    The changes come after a two-month Pentagon review aimed at developing guidelines for the new policy, which was announced by President Joe Biden just days after he took office in January.

    Biden’s executive order overturned the Trump policy and immediately prohibited any service member from being forced out of the military on the basis of gender identity. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin then gave the Pentagon two months to finalize the more detailed regulations that the military services will follow.

    The new rules also prohibit discrimination based on gender identity. Their release Wednesday coincides with International Transgender Day of Visibility, and they will take effect in 30 days. Kirby said that will give the military services the time they need to update their policies and provide guidance to commanders.

    “The United States military is the greatest fighting force on the planet because we are composed of an all-volunteer team willing to step up and defend the rights and freedoms of all Americans,” Austin said in a statement Wednesday. “We will remain the best and most capable team because we avail ourselves of the best possible talent that America has to offer, regardless of gender identity.”

    Austin has also called for a reexamination of the records of service members who were discharged or denied reenlistment because of gender identity issues under the previous policy. Stephanie Miller, the director of military accession policy, told reporters there is no data yet on how many people that may be.

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    What is a trans day? Does Thursday identity as Saturday?
     

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