Pro-Trans Student Group at Brown Holds Rally to Criticize ‘Anti-Trans’ Laws
“We will not be silent in the face of our attacks on our community”
I might be wrong but I think most Americans have just moved on from this.
The College Fix reports:
New Brown U. pro-trans student group holds rally to blast worldwide ‘anti-trans’ laws
On last Tuesday’s “Transgender Day of Visibility,” approximately 40 Brown University students and members of the local community gathered at the “Rock,” the school’s John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library, to protest global “anti-trans” legislative efforts.
According to The Brown Daily Herald, the new student group TRANSformation was behind the event at which organizer Levi Kim criticized the “616 anti-LGBTQ bills” proposed in various legislatures last year.
These bills “target[ed] a community that already faces disproportionately high rates of violence and suicidality,” Kim said. “Instead of addressing affordability or climate change or literally anything else, they choose to regulate the freedom of trans and gender diverse people.”
Kim pointed to five bills in Rhode Island that “specifically target transgender students’ ability to participate in sports and access medical care,” and claimed similar legislation “has been on the rise worldwide.”
“We will not be silent in the face of our attacks on our community,” Kim said.
Finn Tronnes ’28, an organizer with TRANSformation and speaker at the rally, emphasized the strength of the transgender community amid legislative attacks. As someone who grew up in the Midwest, Tronnes specifically called out Kansas’s new law invalidating transgender individuals’ driver’s licenses if they did not change back their genders on the documents.
“The more laws they try to try to erase our identities, the more ways we come up to reinvent ourselves and reimagine the world,” Tronnes said at the protest. “We resist by reminding politicians of the strength of our community, our resilience and our astonishing joy in trying times. We tell them that we’re not going anywhere.”
Kim added that students have a particular role in activism efforts given that a majority of anti-transgender legislation pertains to transgender youth.
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“approximately 40 Brown University students and members of the local community”
Uh huh. How many of each?
“The more laws they try to try to erase our identities”
You’re the ones erasing them. We’re restoring them.
These bills “target[ed] a community that already faces disproportionately high rates of violence and suicidality,” Kim said. That’s the reason for the majority of the legislation. This “community” doesn’t face high rates of violence, it is the propagator of the violence. They are not full of joy, as Kim says, but full of remorse, thus the high level of suicide in the community.
Brown obviously is lax on homework assignments.
“We will not be silent in the face of our attacks on our community”.
Shut up, mentally ill commie kids, and stop attacking your community.