Unity rally for transgender lives

 

Trans people and friends in the San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood yesterday asserted a straightforward message to the hostile Trump regime and to the world.

Trans people cannot be erased. And, as for so long, they know they must take care of their own. The rally of several hundred people was notable for making provision for disabled people and providing interpretation for the deaf.

 

One speaker reminded listeners of their indigenous roots here in Nuevo Mexico.

Professor of history Susan Stryker shared the story of the Turk Street site, where, in 1966, queer people fought police in what's remembered as the Compton Cafeteria Riot. 

Raise up their names! There are too many recent casualties of the war on Black Trans lives: Sam Norquist, Tahiry Broom, Amyri Dior, Ra’Lasia Wright. All were murdered in the month of February.

Despite the panic about gender variation which has seized our current rulers, trans and gender non-conforming people are not going to be erased.