In a unanimous vote, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors declared the city a sanctuary city for people who are transgender, gender non-conforming, intersex, and two-spirit.
"We’re people just like you," said Suzanne Ford, who leads SF Pride and is a trans woman herself.She’s used to showing courage in the face of adversity when traveling home to Kentucky."I have to get my game face on. There are going to be people that hate me," Ford said. "I don’t pass. They know I’m a trans woman, and they may have never said a word to me. They already hate me.
"The American Civil Liberties Union is tracking more than 500 anti-LGBTQ+ bills across the country."In Florida, we showed conservative principles work," Florida’s republican governor and former presidential candidate Ron DeSantis said during a nationally televised debate with democratic California Governor Gavin Newsom in November 2023.Honey Mahogany is San Francisco's director of the Office of Transgender Initiatives.
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