Daily News | Activists celebrate Trans Day of Visibility in Philly amid a wave of anti-trans bills nationwide
legislature — seeking to block trans people from accessing health care, education, and other rights, according to the Trans Legislation Tracker. The president of the American Principles Project, one of the conservative groups lobbying hardest for anti-trans bills, described such legislation as “a political winner” to“Folks are upset about what’s going on in other states,” Breighton Golphin, 31, one of the organizers of the demonstration, said in an interview.
Attendees, many of them young and enthusiastic, carried blue, white and pink trans flags and handmade signs reading “Menstruation has no gender” and “We keep us safe.” Wes Allen, a 17-year-old trans student at Central High School, told the crowd that if Pennsylvania’s anti-trans bills became law, “they would not only ban me from my sport of choice, but would ban my younger brother from even mentioning me in his classrooms.”Currently, the city offers some protections to trans and nonbinary students.
“We’re deserving to be treated like human beings. As it stands now, we’re being treated like monsters who should be eliminated and vanquished,” said
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