The banner just unfurled at Dodger Stadium down the left-field line. pic.twitter.com/l1eZTwDHao
— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) October 29, 2018
The protest came less than a week after President Trump said his administration is considering changing the way it treats transgender people under the law. The Health and Human Services Department has been pushing for such a change, which would seek to negate claims that gender identity could be used for protection under federal civil rights laws such as Title IX, which bans sex discrimination. A change could lead the federal government to consider a transgender person’s sex determined at birth; some 1.4 million American adults define their gender as different from their biological sex at birth. There has been pushback against such a change from some in the administration, The Post reported.
“I hope that this action will motivate members of the trans community, our allies and our comrades to really activate and to really understand that we have power,” Bamby Salcedo, the president of TransLatin@ told Into. “We can demonstrate our power anywhere and everywhere.”
Trans People Deserve To Live!
Posted by TransLatina Coalition on Sunday, October 28, 2018
Salcedo, TransLatin@ Coalition Board Chair Maria Roman and other activists sneaked the blue and white, 20- by 15-foot banner into the upper deck of Dodger Stadium, and Salcedo said the group went to the game expressly to display the banner. They were escorted out afterward.
“I felt my heart was dropping along with it,” Salcedo said. “I was kind of exploding because of the adrenaline. You don’t know what’s going to happen with the police and security and all of that.”
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