Demand a Safe San Francisco and Help Save Vital Transgender Community Resource!

Monday April 23, 2007

A coalition of local LGBTQQ and allied organizations is urging Mayor Newsom and the SF Board of Supervisors to reject all budget cuts to the Center for Special Problems, a vital transgender community mental health resource, and instead increase all funding for organizations and services promoting the emotional, physical, and social wellbeing of transgender communities.

On Friday, March 21 at 24th Street Mission BART Plaza, over 200 people came out to demand an end to violence, discrimination, and abuse against transgender communities at a public action planned by CUAV, El/La Program Para TransLatinas, Hermanos de Luna y Sol, MASA, the SF LGBT Center, and the Transgender, Gender Variant, and Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP). We heard from local advocates, friends and family members of murdered transgender people as well as survivors of violence, and activists urging us to address the root causes of violence that transgender communities, particularly low-income transgender women of color, face. Representatives of Senator Carole Migden and Assemblymember Mark Leno also spoke out to demand an and to the cycles of violence in transgender communities and pledged their support.