BIDEN: «Transgender Americans SHAPE our Nation’s SOUL»

… Transgender Day of Visibility celebrates the joy, strength, and absolute courage of some of the bravest people I know

… Transgender Americans shape our Nation’s soul

… As kids, they deserve what every child deserves

… too many transgender Americans are still denied those rights and freedoms

… A wave of discriminatory State laws is targeting transgender youth

… An epidemic of violence against transgender women and girls

… We have appointed a record number of openly LGBTQI+ leaders

… with more inclusive gender markers on United States passports

… ensuring that every American can marry the person they love and have that marriage accepted

… transgender children — more than half of whom seriously considered suicide

… NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States

… do hereby proclaim March 31, 2023, as Transgender Day of Visibility

… eliminating violence and discrimination against all transgender, gender nonconforming, and nonbinary people

 

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