Today is Trans Day of Visibility.
Trans, non-binary, and gender-nonconforming people have always been here — from the hijra of India to the Diné nádleehi to the leaders who built the modern LGBTQIA+ movement here in New York.
Your existence is not up for debate. Your lives are not a political issue.
We’re fighting for a city where every trans New Yorker can live openly, safely, and with joy.
Videos analyzed by The New York Times appear to contradict the accounts of federal officials in the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis:
• Federal officials said he approached agents with a handgun in intent to “massacre” them
• Video footage shows him stepping between a woman and an agent who is pepper spraying her
• The agents then pepper spray him while he’s holding a phone in one hand and nothing in the other — then pull him to the ground
• Per The New York Times: “His concealed weapon was found only after he was restrained on the sidewalk.”
(https://t.co/SFctV3c4VQ)
Black man named Keith Porter Jr. was shot dead by an off-duty ICE agent as he was celebrating New Years in Northridge, LA.
He was 43, a father of two daughters, and no arrest has been made.
Below is a GoFundMe to support his family. #SayHisName#KeithPorter#BlackLivesMatter
This morning, an ICE agent murdered a woman in Minneapolis—only the latest horror in a year full of cruelty.
As ICE attacks our neighbors across America, it is an attack on us all. New York stands with immigrants today, and every day that follows.