Daily News | Philly students want Shapiro to declare Pa. a sanctuary state for transgender people — among other demands
Last year, as Penn swimmer Lia Thomas competed as an openly trans woman, her participation in women’s swimming caused an uproar. It became the entry point for people not typically concerned with transgender issues to enter the conversation with force, buoyed mostly by hurtful rhetoric.Several miles north from Penn’s campus at Central High School, Wes Allen watched and listened to the emotional vitriol launched at Thomas.
“It was hard,” he said. Allen is transgender, and also a swimmer. He was not allowed to compete for Central High’s boys team, and the way he was treated often left him feeling invalidated. He pulled back from social media after receiving online hate and has been harassed in both boys’ and girls’ bathrooms. But he didn’t stop competing.“I kept doing it because I love swimming, and I’m not going to let transphobia take away what I like and love,” he said.
“This came together from [the] feeling of needing to do something. I’m 17. I can’t vote,” Allen said. He described how other trans students he knows are afraid to go on family vacations to overtly transphobic states for fear they might not come back. Allen is staying in Pennsylvania for college for the same reason.Rights for transgender people, and youth in particular,now more than ever in America. Conservative lawmakers all across the country have passed overtly anti-trans legislation in recent years, such as banning gender affirming health care or trans education.
“What people are doing now [is] just dehumanizing trans people, especially trans youth,” said Eden Kim, 15, a transgender student at the Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts.of the city, the School District of Philadelphia, and elected officials, including:
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