month in [applause] to start our fe right, we have a multi-talented singer based from san francisco, willford kelly. graduated from the francisco conserve tore of music with master of music degree in voice as a tenured member of the san francisco opera please welcome, willford kelly. [applause] [singing]

[applause] >> one time for wilford kelly! [applause] come on, lift every voice. welcome once more to our third annual transhistory month here in an county of san francisco. the ic transgender initiatives acknowledges that we are we e aron the unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. as the indi thigeus land and in accordance with their traditions, the ramaytush ohlone have never

ceded, lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as the carers as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. as guests, we recognize that we benefit from living anrktritional homeland. we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors and relatives of the ramaytush community and by affngrigh as first peoples. we recognize to honor oholone people we must embrace e meaningful how we care for san francisco and its people. for more detailed information on how you all can engage in this important wo ge you to visit the american indian cultural districd the bay area american

spirit, websites. thank you for your attention. d i want to introduce our first speaker for the day, it is with great pleasure that i bring forward the very person who transhistory month. the very first person to declare transhistomo united states and the mayor who continues to work hard on behalf of the transcommunity. please welcome, honorable, mayor london breed. [applause] >> alright, ladian gentlemen? thank you so much for being here to help us raise the flag for transhistory month in san francisco! [applause] i want to acknowledge and appreciate senator scott and the work he did to not only support san

francisco in all the things he does, but also help make it transhistory month in the state of lifornia! [applause] and i want to shout out one of my friends over there--cooper, because i dont want her to curse me out after this. [lauter] sending you so much love and appreciating you for all amazin anfolks have done and donna to help lead the way. [applause] and--see, i get love of--that's what i love. i want to shout out jupiter fo all the you've done. [applause] because jupiter hato come up with transhistory month and to ate in san francisco three years ago, and she has been

reon the for front of doing a lot of the work, to help continue to ure t this tradition is not about just coming together in francisco city hall to celebrate, but uplifting and th many time and time again. thso many extraordinary people that are joining us here today, but i y one of the first activist i met who lpedestablish the transcultural district, to help establish the first office is now finally run it, honey mahogany. like, finally! i appreciate he and i appreciate the fact she has been a leader and i appreciate the transadvisory committee, because the things have been brought to my attention as mayor, they dont come from me, they

come from the community. they come from the community based on based on what you want to see happen and because of amazing community and because they have come together to advocate, whwe are seeing is investments finally. even in tough budget years, we still made the investments in many of the organizations to continue to great work and regardless of the complications around some of our initiatives, behind the scenes we have gotten very creative to insure those programs continue to happen, bewealso know that consistently, every time introduce a program, whether it is universal basic income to support transpeople or transhome sfto end transhomelessness, whatever we do in the city is constantly under threat from so many outside forces. san francisco and some of the most creative people

anywhere and we-where there isn't a way we find a way, and so many of you have wi sure that these vital resources make it toe people who need it the most. i appreciate the work that we gether. i appreciate the advocacy and i appreciate how unique san francisco is, because of how this community has uplifted the movement around transrs you may san francisco-braef ause you make san francisco a model for the rest of the country to follow, i want to thank each and every one of you for being here for contin to do the work and continuing to come together despiteles.e i am so excited to be celebrating this month, whether is film festivals, activations, part aiz, events, whatevertakes, it just really b a spark to our city and we wantmake

sure that everyone across the entire united states america knows what we do, know who we are about and know when they are coming for us, we are coming right back to hit ha [applause] and last but not least, i want to again thank everyone for but also recognize, san francisco was the first c the world to establish a drag laureate want to appreciate the work that darcie has been doing as our drag laureate. [applause] she is not just the lgbtq representative of the city, she is a ambassador e r city, period. so, thank you for your work and we are glad to have you here today. let's have a great time in the month of august! [applause] yo thank you mayor breed for constant allyship and inspirational work. isn't she is incredible?

she is an incredible mayor and you have done right by the omnity. thank you. coming up next, we have another champion for the transcommunity. thistiom our state legislature. welcome, senator scott wiener. [applause] >> thank you honey and thank you for all you do.st all, i am here f and foremost-to say thank you to all of you. there are so many people re in this beautiful space who work 365 days a year to support transpeople in san franoss the country and across the world, and this city is because of you and i'm so deeply appreciative, so oc of you a round of applause. se] so, we do not yet have a smof the california state legislature. i'm hoping that will change in november

ando have a opportunity. we are as allies everything we can to uplift transpeople and in particularly, to support an protect transyoung people who are under such evere assault now. we know there are forces in this country and we are seeing more broadly th project 2025. they have never gotten over the are no longer in 1950 or 1850 or whatever they want to bring us bak d that there are lgbtq peop and women and people of color, immigrants, people who are now part of the power structure who are helping make taking prominent roles in and business and non profit world. they have never gotten over ey want all of us to go away and of course we are not have made a c

cho they made this choice around 8 year es ago after they lost--realize they lost, at them. who can we pick on next? who we demonize next? who can we blame next? and it was transpeople. it wasn't just random this happened. was a deliberate choice they made to take a entire a community they thought would not be able to stick up for itself. a community they thought they could just pick on and score political points. imagine scoring political points on th backs of children. that's what they are doing. in california we are none that. that's why we- [applause] that's why we just a few ago were the first state to pass the law to make california a refuge

for transkids and their families if they felt a needcold no longer be safe in their states, because the parents were threat state prison time for supporting their transkids and their access to healthcare. we passed legislation nd access to culturally competent e for transpeople and non binary people and ge ople in general, and just last month we passed and the gointo law legislation to ban forced outing [applause] because, we need to be clear that as we correctly criticize other states, that we dont allow school districts in california to force teache out these kids to their parents, even if that leadviolence or homelessness for those kids. i'm so proud of what we have a. we still have so much work to do to know rt the transcni

we will get there and i am just so grateful to everyone r this amazing community, this amazing coalition. let's celebrate transhistory month, this community is not going to be erased and let's win thank you. [applause] thank you senator wiener. we have spoken a lot today how legislative attacks but it is important we acknowledge how intersectionality can stigmatize dehumanize. especially immigrants refugees and mono liu [indiscernible] the only twranz latinx led serving organization and speaking on their behalf is sophia, who was sthired by ella in 2018 and serves as their first puty director. please welcome, sophia

derantes. [applause] . hello. s. my name i'm the deputy director for--the only as just mentioned, the only trans lead organization in the city and county of san francisco and northern california. today, we to honor the history and residents oftransgender people, particular the transgender women of color, who hathe backbone of our movement. as a mexican indigenous transjnder woman in the tenderloin, proud to stand before you on this sacred land. we are facing a critical moment

in anti-transjnder bills are sweeping the our life. but we will not be erased. will not be silent. we will not be defeated. we are the descendants of a ric broud heritage of--wh resisted--who fought for we are the children of the aztecs, [indiscernible] many more tribes and we will not let anyone take that a us. [applause] this will determine our fate. continue etermine whether

to face discrimination and marginalization or whether we can continue walking toward the recognition and reedesee. it will determine whether we can continue to work, to have access to healthcare, education and employment, or whether we--with our human rights. but, will not be left behind. we will rise up. we will use our voices, our votes and our collective power to dend justice, equality and freedom. we will show the world that we will no longer be ignored and that we will no longer be silent. let's honor our sester, elders and siblings who have fought our rights. let us honor the memories of

those we have lost to violence and nati and let us continue to fight for a world where transgender people can lith dignity and respect. [speaking spanish] thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you sophia. in this struggle fo transliberation, our youth have taken center stage. they have all decency become the victims of bullying by the bazaaring

obsesive insere weirdoes on the right. and yet, and yet they have been brave enbold enough to continue to be themselves and shine a light path towards liberation. this is why i'm so grateful have lyric here in san francisco. thbehalf of lyric is executive director, giel chavez. [applause] >> hi, everyone.it going? as honey said, i ve the honor and privilege of being the executive director of lyric. that is actually the second and second oldest queer youth serving organiza the country. [applause] and i think that is a testament to all of us of san francisco

residents. that is why we have one of the oldest organizations, because we continue to be san francisco, a sanctuary city, a beacon of hope for our community. you know, i have been at lyric fo about three years, and we have seen ■ça severe increase in young people, in parents, as senator wiener mentioned, calling, sending dm, asking for support ar sending their youth coming to san francisco because they know across try, san francisco is where we will be safe. san francisco is where we will be affirmed. san francisco is where we finally live our true selves and be in community. and be loved. absolutely. [applause] i just want to say, you know, today is a privilege for all of us, bu i want to thank you again to our

fearless leaderlondon breed for your bold leadership, for st the grain and saying you know, we will humanize and respect and unitand we'll do it mber of our unapology. i want to thank senator wiener for not only advocating for everyone in our community but doing it at the state level. muchyou all realize what is happen-because of the act. , parents, community members, even across into the east bay are going and advocating for our young people because they are threatened in every state, so i'm this enti hopeful that now that we have the safety act, our young ope going to be safe in their schools.

today is a opportunity for us to celebrate. today is a opportunity for us to acknowledge the history and everything we are endered as a community, but usto is also a opportunity for call and rise up and continue to advocate for ry member of our community, because i tell you, our young people are ready. our young people are unu apologetic. thartheir truth authentic selves because we were able to show and moat ■ for them, and that is a testament of every single person here. thank you honey and office of transjnder initiative having me today. thank you for everyone for making this thank you. [applause] >> next speaker, jupiter prazaa a undocumented transwoman,

st and daca ripsent. rip cipient. 2021 feminist policy fellow and grth bachelors in international relation in miner in political science from san francisco state university. s maker behind transhistory month is we are so lucky to have san francisco and here with us today. please welcome, jupiter peraza. [applause] >> thank you everybody. happy transjnder history month. i love august. it is my new favorite month. i am blessed and grateful to be here with you all. once again, welcoming and celeb transgender history a month. a very very special e,

considering this is celebrated across the entire state of cor yes, let's give it up. pln francisco became the first city in the nation to recognize transgend history month, and california became the first state to recognize antoryonth. it is incredibly thrilling that historic and monumental commemoration began here in san august 2021 when mayor london breed a proclamation declaring august as transgender history month in francisco. and to reiterate what said, tradition and invasion are synonymous with san francisco. it is a characteristic that has made me a proud resident for all most 10 years, and as such, and as a result that

creativity and imagination on behalf of the transgender community, we have thrict. we also have martin community health clinic, the ofof transgender initiative. transmatch, lyric, our transhome and so much more. transgender san franciscans are cultural bearers. we are artists, organizers, leaders, academics, business owners, service providers, care ts, professionals and creators. san francisco has a transgender spirit. it has gone through so much an it shed so many layers, but above all, it is triump and authenticity d the city it is and i like to say that

san francisco uses she they pronouns. yes. [applause] such initiva national standard. we continue to trailblaze a path forward, such as the mayor's incredible plan to end transgender homelessness by 2027. it is a plan that requires all of our attention and all our support to be able to set up community for success by having equitable to stable and reliable housing.the transgender district, i launched an managed the organization first pilot housing subsidy progfor transgender folks. known as housing for transgender tenants, otherwise known as the hot program with

we were successful housing 8 individuals over neyear and pay for 50 percent of their rent. survarinquiries at the end of the pilot program documented improvement in mental thfinancial stability, investment in higher education, ownership, entrepreneur sp and overall, a drastic improvement of quality of since san francisco early days, the transgender communityas a cornerstone in making the city what it is today. it is only fair and just that the city look out for us in the waat we have looked out for it or for her. sorry. many of us have depended on the city for hope, protection and a there have been moments in my life in which have felt utterly

hopeless. the response to the the world and state of transgender civil rights. there have been moments in which the thought of moving forward in life has felt profoundly painful and devastating. i am not alonin those feelings. i know many transgender people of all country and around the world who feel exactly how i have felt. who feel the weight of discrimination, viteral and violence. a ippling sense of loss. loss of loved ones, of peace and opportunities, family, love t during those moments of . darkness, i am reminded of who i am and have become. i did not come to be who i am

because i exest in a vacuum. determination and power of the transcommunity i exist in now and the one that came before me. we are not alone and we never have been. we havecommunity to guide us through the darkness. we are not to tear each other down, but uplift and empower one another. it is our responsibility, francisco transgender community, the world center of transgender civil rights to deliver ofhope to all those in, disenfranchisement and those who can count the number of transpeople they in one hand. and for that message, i need you all to join me in this chant to be able to do this together. i want you to repeat after me.

if it applies, it applies. if not, please free to join. i am trans-i powerful-i am brilliant-and you will never destroy me-f let's do it again. i am trans-i am powerful-i am brilliant-and you will neve destroy me. let's do it together e more time. alright? can we do that? one, two, three. ams-i am powerful-i am brilliant-and you never destroy me. [applause] as they say, if you want to go alone, if you want to go far, go together. may we future through

the lens of our history. hist able to take away from us. hiory and future that belong to us anus only. happy transgender history month everybody! [applause] >> thank you jupiter. thank you so much. thank you for your leadership and threason why we are all here today, so thank you once again. [applause] we are getting close to th of our program, but we have one more thing to do. today we are ringtwo individuals who made exemplary contribution the transgender community in san francisco and beyond. our first honoree is cal. cal is a inclusivity activist, educator communi andpo et.

competed at st. uis university. cal, won first place in the 2022 san francisco marathon. the 2023 new york cirathty . [applause] and the 2024 los angeles marathon. what's next 2 rlen.is it? . took second place at the 2022 chicago marathon and 2023 boston marathon. biary run club and professor at university of san francisco and continues to be to increasing trans visibility and uplifting queer please come forward, cal kalamia.

[applause] >> hello. i'm going to say a few words. anhang me. it is truly such a honor to be here. among such ground-breaking contributors to a better world for geer expansive people. my name is cal. my pronouns are he. i'm trans. i'm so proud to be transand i do if i could be this proud if i didn't live here in san francisco. in 2022, i midway through my 4th year as a public high school teacher in the city. started pushing on local foot races more inclusive to transand non binary participant with registration option anoprun and recognized for who we are.

beta breakers was g e point for me and out pouring of support from the community in san francisco bay. pushed me to continue to do more work across e i went on impacted change at countless races, including the san francisco marathon, chicago, boston and r divisions. [applause] while the current political climate seeks demonize transathletes, i wanted to find a way to create a joy through movement for transnon binary folks. in 2022, i founded non binary plus run club which meets week lee in golden gate park. you can walk, bike or run with us. i'm not recruiting but not recruiting. just over a year ago, i was to

the u.s. anti-doping agency for my use of gender affirming testosterone and right to continue running was on the line mo i was crushed. domentation to prove the medica necessity of my transness and i said, no. i shared my story with the internet and the pressure mounted i was granted unprecedented exempson to ue to compete. [appls inclusive policy for work transathletes which is huge. people often ask me, how do udo it and you do with such a smile on your face. my answer to that isi have no choice. to falter in the face transphobia, to give up the will of hatred, i'm supposed to and that is precisely why i will never. [applause] i i do to leave

footprints, pink and white footprint so the world knows a transperson was here. a transperson ran this marathon, a transperson won. i want a ere young people do not think transness is a death senseance and parents do not believe the same. i want world being transand black and transis not a death sentnc where transpeople are loved. the gift of individuals such as honey mahogany and jupiter and organizations such as ending transgender homelessness initiative cannot be resilience and efforts of the san francisco community, pushed the needle, especially the intergenerational labor of transwomen of color which set the stage for ration as we know it today. e not just worth it. we are so much more deserving of basic human rights and dignity. we are anby nature. too expansive to conform to

li notions of who people are supposed to be. transpeople are lead ers, our wisdom lighcan only shine when we are given a chance. when we talk ouglobal conversation about gender affirming care, let's get one thin straight, pronouns and bathrooms in related medical care are affirming care. access to sports is gender aforms care. a city addressing the most pressing crisis facing a transcommunity, thtranscommunity members setting the tone for seismic shift in the glois gender affirming care. to envision the world we want to the work we do in our ci thank you so much. [applause] >> last but certainly not least we have with us the all star

known as tida ida. [applause] is a hiv aid transjnder activist from the philippines. has worked with the san francisco aid foundation, the filipino task force on s d are currently works as a san francisco community health center where has been many year. created many initiatives to combat hiv and aids in the 90and raised support for the transjnder law center and aid francisco. she received numerous awards for incredible ri the community, including [indiscernible] transgender law center [indiscernible] asian pacific islander wellness grassroots award san

francisco pride--today continues to be active in the community through her work with the health center. san francisco transmarch and transday of disability and so much more. she continues to inand mentor young transwomen to be the change they want to see here in san francisco. please welcome, tida ida. [applause] hello san francisco! yep. you heard it. my name is nicky, but i think

tida ida has less watsof arrests, soi use that one. buhave been here in the united states in the bay area since 1989 and i can safely say and you know, that san francisco made me who i because, this is a city where you can be you can also do all most everything you want to do achieve, and there are a lot of great people here who are making sure that this city is going to be a safe place for everybody. i worked for the n francisco community health center, known as api wellness center. i think many of you know it is the home of trans, drop in center

for the trans community and we courageously took a leap of faith to secure a building for 5 years, 6 thousand square we have drop-in, you have counseling rooms. we have a beautiful open space that you can hold meetingso many more. and then, we also have recently, we took over navigation center. it isa 86 bed facility, shelter and we erent services over there, and now actually we do have a waiting list, which is really interesting one is we want to make su out in the street. now transgender person is out in the street, so we made the process simpler everything faster. but, one thing i wanted to say

here, i don't usually have prepared speeches. i always want to speak from the heart and i always want to from my experiences. recently, actually just last mo many people know cecilia chung? we know cecilia. she is my buddy buddy. she is the only person i can 2 o'clock in the morning and tell her i'm really pissed and she will listen to me. so, we just caback from munich germany and it was the aids conference, which i think i will pitch to our mayor that we should send representatives there, because it is ucan amazing amazing conference for folks who the global view of hiv is different from wh over here in the united states. it is relysomeone

from south africa, who is proud of her program and when i ask ed her, how much you receive? she said, $10 thousand. i said, for what, a quarter or something? no, for the whole year. i kind of like--what can $10 thousand really do for us here? we get funding that we take care evodworkers to the top. it is a very different ffview out there. i encourage you all to learn more about what's going in the hiv world [applause] so, we were at the international aids conference, by the way, s so hot. i was like, oh my god.

take away, which resonated to what i do in san francisco, everything was in german, but they had englh channels, but th that kept coming up every four s, every five seconds was kamala. kamala wareally being celebrated over there, so i feel like, the world is watching us. the world is hi as leaders, we cannotthis people who are watching us to make sure we make the ight decision. second, this conference has 16 thousand attendees and i am not a speck, i'm just a lint in this ■big conference. e l the folks that i met that living in south africa and

places they can't thrive like us e asking, is san francisco a beautiful place to live at? how do you manage in san francisco? i reflected my whole life front of me, because since 1989 i have seen how every year and i bet neone this, every year somethi good happens for the trans counity here. from legislation from and also from telling united airlines at one point i was--we told them, we are not doing business with you if you don't include trans in your healthcare. au] and we are a major of united. every year, think all the things our great people in san francisco do for the s ity. i xoe know there are other communities that need to be celebrated and

uplifted also, but i think the trans community we want to make that we address those. my message for everyone, what kept in this work, what kept me doing all the do right now, not only did i learn how be solution oriented, but i learned how to communicate with each and everyone, because sometimes that is where the breakdown happens when we have two different opinions and leave it at that. need to communicate, express each other and respect each other and then come up for our community. [applause] wh you so much. mayor, thank you. thank you. thank you. love you all. [applause] there is a wedding coming, so we have to get out of here, but we do that, i want to say one last

thank you to my staff. please give it up for chery, ostry shane who helped organized everything today. you gu are amazing and did an incredsable job. thank you,b an amazing transhistory month. we have snacks in the hallway in front the mayor's office. please take some snacks and have an azing august, y'all. thank you so much. [applause] you.

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