WASHINGTON — The Biden administration acted to protect transgender people from discrimination during Pride month, but trans activists want the White House to go further to address issues of violence, economic insecurity and anti-trans sentiment in culture, even when the spotlight of Pride fades.
“It sounds good to have a White House convening on transgender equality, but what does that equality and equity actually look like? Will campaign promises continue to be broken, or will we really see a shift, beyond small victories that the administration claims,” asked Sage Dolan-Sandrino, a 20-year-old trans youth activist and the inaugural Monica Roberts fellow at the National Black Justice Coalition.
“My direct ask to President Biden is what his plans are culturally, financially and legally to actively combat the violence and housing inequity and instability that Black trans folk are experiencing,” Dolan-Sandrino said.
While President Joe Biden — heralded as the most pro-LGBTQ president yet — has been praised for his administration’s work with trans people, activists hope he will take further action to make meaningful, broad-based, lasting change in their everyday lives.
To Ruby Corado, founder of Casa Ruby in Washington, D.C., a nonprofit…
