side of t the different.r@$iñ?f:abday of transhistory montsan francisco. [applause] to start

right, we have a multi-talented san francisco, willford ancisco conserve tore of music with magree as a tenured member of the san francisco please welcome, willford kelly. [applause] [singing] /

[applause] time for wilford kelly! [applause] every voice. welcome once more to our third

annual transhistory moof san francisco. the office of transgender initiatives acknowledges that we are at we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. as land and in accordance with their traditions, the ramaytush ohlone have never ceded, lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. as guests, we recognize that we benefit from lind. we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors and relatives of the ramaytush community and by affirming t we recognize to honor oholone people we must embrace and collaborate meaningful how we care for san francisco and its people.

for more detailed information on how you all can engage in this important work we encourage you to visit the american indian cultural district and the bay area american indian spirit, websites. thank you for your attention. and with that, i want to introduce our first speaker for the day, it is with great pleasure that i bring forward the very person who p transhistory month. the very first person to united states and the mayor who continues to work hard on behalf of the transcommunity. please welcome, the honorable, mayor london breed. [applause] >> alright, ladies and gentlemen? thank you so much for being here to help us raise the flag for transhistory san francisco! want to acknowledge and appreciate senator scott 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 california! [applause] and i want to shout out one of friends over there--cooper, because i dont want her to curse me out after this. sending you so much love and appreciating you for thhave done and donna and folks to help lead the way. [applause] and--see, i get love instead of--that's what i love. i want to shout out jupiter for all the [applause] because jupiter come up with transhistory month and to celebrate it in san francisco three years ago, and she has on the for front of doing a lot of the work, to help e that this tradition is not about

just coming hall to celebrate, but uplifting and stories of so many time and time again. there are so many extraordinary people that are joining us here today, but will say one of the first activist i helped establish the transcultural district, to help establish the first office sgender initiatives is a person who is now finally , honey mahogany. [applause] i;like, finally! i apprecwork appreciate the fact she has been a leader and i reay preciate the committee, because ve attention as mayor, they dont come from me, they the commfrom the community you want to see happen and because of this amazing community and because they have come we are seeing is investments finally.in tough budget years, we still made the investments in many of the organizations to continue to great work and rethe complications around some of our initiatives,

behind have gotten very creative to insure those programs continue to happen, because we also know that consistently, every me we introduce a program, whether it is universal basic income to support transpeople or to end transhomelessness, whatever we do in the city constantly under threat from so tside forces.cisco 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 to make sure that these vital resources make it to the people who need it the most. i appreciate the work that together. i appreciate the advocacy and appreciate how unique san francisco is, because of how this community has uplifted the movement around you may san francisco-braef [applause] you make san francisco a model for the rest of the country to follow,

and i want to thank each and every one of you for being to do the work and continuing to come together i am so excited to be celebrating this is film festivals, activations, part aiz, events, whatever it takes, it just really brings a spark to our city and we want that everyone across the entire united states america knows what we do, know who we are about and at when they are coming for us, we are coming right back to hit hard! [applause] and last but not least, i want to again thank everyone but also recognize, san francisco was ththe world to establish a drag ate and i want to appreciate the work that darcie has been doing our drag laureate. [applause] she is not just the lgbtq representative of the city, she is a ambassador for the city, period. so, thank you for your wohere todat's have a great time in the month of august!

[applause] >> thank you mayor breed for your constant allyship and inspirational work. isn't she is incre she is an incredible mayor and you have done right ty. thank you. coming up next, we have another champion for the transcommunity.our state legislature. senator scott wiener. >> thank you honey and thank you for all you do. first of all, i am here first and foremost-to say thank you to all of you. there are so many here in this beautiful space who work 365 days a year to support transpeople in country and across the world, and this city because of you and i'm so deeply appreciative, so let's give all och of you a round of applause. [applause] so, we do not yet have a transmember of the will changedo have a opportunity. we as allies

everything we can uplift transpeople and in particularly, to support and protect transyoung people who are under such severe assault now. we know there are forces in this country and we are seeing more broadly with project 2025. they have never gotten ovlonger in 1950 or 1850 or whatever they want to bring mwus that there are lgbtq people and women and le of color, immigrants, people who are now part of prominent roles in sports and business and non profit world. they have never gotten over that and they want all of us to go away and of course we are and they have made a conscious they made this choice around 8 year es ago after they lost--realize they lost, we beat them. who can we pick on next? who can we demonize next?

who can we blame next? was transpeople. it wasn't just random this happenedwas a take a entire community, a community they thought would not be able to stick up for itself. they were wrong.7+ a community they thought they could just pick on and score political points. imagine scoring political points on the backs of children. that's what they are doing. in california we are none that. that's [applause] that's why weju the first state to pass the law to make refuge for transkids and their families if they felt a safe in their states, because the parents reatened with state prison time supporting their transkids and their access to healthcare. we passed legislation to expand access to ly competent healthcare for transpeople and non binary people gender non cong general, and just l1last month we passed and the governor signed into

law legislation to policies. because, we ne that as other states dont allow ornia to out these kids to thatviolence or homelessness i'm so we still have so much work to supporanscome and for community, n. let's celebrate transhistory month, this community is not going to be you today how legislative attacks but it is important we also acknowledge how intersectionality can stigmatize dehumanize. especially immigrants refugees and mono lingual. [indiscernible] the only twranz latinx led serving organization and speaking on their behalf is sophia, who was ella in 2018 anfirst deputy director. please welcome, sophia derantes. [applause]

>> hello. sisters, brothers and siblings. my name is sophia. i'm the deputy director for--the only as just mentioneonly trans lead organization in the city and county of san francisco and northern california. honor the history and residents of transgender people, transgender women of r, who have been the backbone of our movement. as a mexican indigenous transjnder woman in th proud to stand before you on this and. we are facing a critical moment anti-transjnder bills are sweeping the nation. --our identities, voices and our life. but we will not be erased.

we will not be silent. we will not be defeated. we are the descendants of a rich and broud heritage resisted--who fought for our survival. we are the children of the aztecs, [indiscernible] many more tribes and we will not let anyone ay from us. [applause] this will determine our fate. it will to face discrimination and marginalization or whether we can continue walking toward the recognition and respect we deserve. it will determine whether we continue to work, to have access to education and employment,

or whether we--with our human rights. but, we will not be left behind. we will rise up. we will usour voices, our votes and our collective power to defend justice, equality and freedom. we will show the worldwe will no longer be ignored and that we will no longer be silent. let's honor ou elders and siblings who have fought for our rights. the memories of those we have lost to violence discrimination and let us continue to fight for a world transgenddignity and respect. j& [speaking spanish]

thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you sophia. in this , our youth have taken center stage. they have beyond all decency become the victims of bullying by the bazaaring obsesive and insecure weirdoes on and yet, and yet they have been brave enough and bold enough to continue to be themselves and shine a light on the path towards liberation. this is why i'm so grateful in san francisco. speaking on behalf of lyric is p the executive regiel chavez. [applause] >> how's it going? the honor

and privilege of being the executive director of lyric. that is actually the second largest and second oldest queer youth serving the country. [applause] and i think that to all of us of san francisco residents. that is why we have one of the oldest organizations, because we continue to be sanctuary city, a beacon of hope for our community. you know, i have been at lyric for about three years, and we have seen a severe increase people, in parents, as senator wiener mentioned, calling, sending dm, asking for support because they are sending their youth coming to san francisco because they know san francisco is where we will be safe. san francisco is where we will be affirmed. san francisccan ue selves and be in communit and be loved. absolutely.

[applause] want to say, you know, today is a privilege for all in to our fearless leader, mayor london breed for your for saying you know, we will continue to humanize and respect and love every single member of our community and we'll do it unapology. i want to thank senator wiener for not only advocating for everyone in our community but doing it at the state you all realize what is happen-because of the t?z safety act. you know, parents, community members, even across into the are going and advocating for our young people because they are threatened in every school across this entire state, so i'm hopeful that now that we have the safety act, our young people are 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 also a opportunity for to call and rise up and continue to advocate for every single member of our community, because i tell you, our young people our young people are unu apologetic. they are their truth authentic selves because we were able to show and model that for them, and that is a testament of every single person here. thank you honey and transjnder initiative having me today. thank you for everyone for pen and let's keep at it. thank you. se] >> next speaker, jupiter prazaa is a undocumented transwoman, activist and daca ripsent. rip cipient. a 2021 feminist policy fellow

and bachelors in international relation in with miner in political science from san francisco state university. she is the policy maker behind transhistory month is we are so lucky to have her here in san francisco and here with us today. welcome, jupiter peraza. [applause] you everybody. happy transjnder history month. i love august. it new favorite month. and grateful ó>to be here with you all. once again, welcoming and celebrating transgender history a month. a very rye, considering this august is celebrated across the entire state yes, let's give it up. [applause] first city in the nation to recognize transgender history month, and california became the first state to recognize transgender history month.

it is incredibly thrilling that historic and monumental commemoration in august 2021 when mayor london a proclamation declaring august in and to reiterate what she said, tradition and invasion are synonymous with san francisco. it is a characteristic that has made me a proud resident for all and as such, and as a result that creativity and imagination on behalf of the transgender community, we have we also lion martin community health clinic, the office of transgender initiative. transmatch, lyric, our much more. transgender san franciscans rare cultural bearers. we 68tists, organizers, leaders, academics, business service

providers, professionals and creators. san francisco has a transgender spirit. it has gone th. it shed so many layers, but ab it is triu it is and i like to say that san francisco uses she they pronouns. yes. okay. [applause] initiatives have set standard. we continue to a path forward, such as the mayor's incredible plan to end tran homelessness by 2027. it is a plan that requires all attention and all our support to be able to set having equible access to stable and reliable housing. during my time at the transgender district, i launand managed the orga housinfor transgender folks. known as housing

for transgender tenants, otherwise known as the hot program withtwo t. we were successful housing 8 individuals over one year and pay for 50 percent of their rent. the program documented improvement in mental health, financial stability, investment in higher education, car ownership, entrepreneur sp and overall, improvement of quality life. since san francisco early days, the served as a cornerstone in making the city what it is today. it is only fair and just that the city look out for us we have looked out for it or for her. sorry. many of us haon the city for hope, protection and a plan forward. there have been moments in my life in which i have felt utterly

hopeless. the world and state of transgender civil rights. which the thought of moving forward in life has profoundly painful and devastating. i am not alone in those feelings. i know many transgender people ages across the country and around the world who feel exactly how i have felt. who weight discwcr loss of loved ones, peace famia long fulfilling li, i am i am and have become i did not come to be am because i exest in ination the transc the oncame before me. we are not alone and have a guide us through the darkness. here to tear each but upliftone another. it is our francisco transgender community, the world center of transgender civil rights to all

those in solitude, disenfranchisement and those who can count the number of transpeople know in one hand. and for that need you all to join me in this to do this together. i want you to repeat ter me. if it applies, it applies. if not, please feel free to join. i am trans-i am powerful-i am brilliant-and you will never destroy me-f let's do it i am trans-i am powerful-i am brilliant-and you will never destroy me. let's do it together one more time. alright? can we do that? alright. one, two, three.trans-i am powerful-i am

brilliant-and v4you never destroy me. [applause] as they say, if you want to if you far, go together. h the lens of our history. history they will never be able to take away from us. history and future that belong to us us only.happy transgender history month everybody! se] >> thank you jupiter. thank you so much. thank you for your leadership and you are the reason why we are all here today, so thank you once again. [applause] we are getting close the end of our program, but we have one more thing to do. today weng two individuals made exemplary contribution to the transgender community in san francisco and beyond. our first honoree is cal. is 3#a transmarathonic inclusivity activist, educator builder andpo et.

competed at st. cal, won first place san francisco marathon. the 2023 new [applause] and the 2024 angeles marathon. what's next in 2025? what is it? berlen. . took second place at the 2022 chicago and 2023 boston marathon. non binary run club and professor at university of san francisco and continues to be committed to increasing trans visibility and upliftin queer joy. please come cal kalamia. [applause]

>> hello. i'm going to say a few words. thank you so much for having me. it is truly such a honor to be here. among such ground-breaking contributors to a better world gender expansive people. my name is cal. my pronouns are he or they. i'm trans. i'm so prto be transand i don't know if i could be this proud if i didn't live here in francisco. in 2022, i was midway through my 4th year as a public high school teacher in the city. i started pushing on local foot races transand non binary participant with regirun and recognized for who we are. beta breakers was the starting point for support from the community in san frsc pushed me to continue to do more work across the globe. i went on impacted change at countless races, including the san

francisco marathon, chicago, boston w all have non binary divisions. [applause] while the current political climate seeks to demonize transathletes, i wanted to find a way to create narrative of joy through movement for transnon binary folks. 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 recruitnot recruiting. just over a year ago, i was reported to the u.s. anti-doping agency for my use of gender affirming testosterone and right to continue running was on the line for months. i was crushed. the agency sive documentation to prove the medica necessity of my transness and said, no. i shared my story with the internet and i was granted unpr compete. this laid the ground work for

more inclusive policy for transathletes which is huge. people often how do you do with such a smile your face.is, i have no choice. to falter in the transphobia, to give up the will of hatred, i know i'm supposed to and that is precisely why i never. [applause] to leave footprints, pink and and baby blue footprint transperson was here.xñ a transperson ran this marathon, a transperson won.where young people do not think transness is a death senseance and parents do not believe the same. i want a world being transand black and transis not a where transpeople are loved. the gift of individuals honey mahogany and jupiter and organizations such as he homelessness initiative cannot be overstated. resilience and efforts of the san francisco community, pushed the needle, especially the intergenerational labor of transwomen of color which set it today.

transpeople are not just worth it. we are so much more then deserving of basic human rights and dignity. webrilliant by nature. too expansive to conform notions of who people are supposed to be.lead ers, our wisdom and light can only shine when we are yx given a chance.global conversation about gender affirming care, let's get one thing straight, pronouns and bathrooms transition related medical care are affirming care. access to sports is gender aforms care.the most pressing crisis transcommunity, the transcommunity members setting the tone for seismic shift in that is gender affirming care. to envision the world we want to the work we do in our city is hope. thank you so much. [applause] >> last but we have

with us the all star known as tida ida. [applause] tida ida is a hiv aid transjnder activist from the philippines. has worked with the san francisco aid foundations and are currently works as a san francisco communs been many years. created many to combat hiv and aids in support for the transjnder law center and aid she received numerous awards for incredibtion to luding [indiscernible] transgender law center [indiscernible] ej asian pacific islander wesan francisco pride--today continues to be active in the community through her work with the san francisco community health center. san francisco transmarch and transday of disability and so much more.

she continues to ire and mentor young transwomen to be the change they want to see heresan francisco. please welcome, tida ida. [applause] hello san francisco! [applause] yep. you heard it. my name is nicky, but i think tida ida has less ants of arrests, soi use that one. i have been here in the united states in the area since 1989 and 7i can safely say and you who i am.

because, this is a city where you can be yourself, you can also do all most everything you want to do achieve, and there are a lot of great peop who are making sure that this city is goisafe place for everybody. cisco community health center, formally known as api wellness center. i think many of you that it is the home oftrans, drop in center for the trans and we courageously took a leap of a building for 5 years, 6 thousand square foot. we have drop-in, you have counseling rooms.have a beautiful open space that you can hold meetings and so many more. and then,we also have recently, took over navigation center.

it is a 86 bed facility, shelter and services over there, and now actually we do have a waitiwhich is really interesting because we want to make out in the street. now transgender person is out in the street, so we made the process sid everything faster. but, one thing i wanted to say here, i don't usually have like prepared speeches. i always want to speak from the heart and i always want to speak from my experiences.y just last monday-how many people know cecilia chung? we know cec she is my is the only person at 2 o'clock in the morning and tell her i'm really pissed and she will listen to me. so, we just came back from munich germany and it was the ich i think i will pitch to our mayor that we

should send representatives there, because it is such an amazing amazing conference for folks who the global view of over here in the united states. from south africa, who is so proud of her program and when i ask ed her, how much ive? she said, $10 thousand. i said, for what, a quarter or somethi no, for the whole year. i kind of like--what ousand ally do for us here? we get fu to the it is a very different i encouragelearn more about , we hot. i was ke, oh my god. to do everything was in german, but they glish channels, that kept coming , la. kamala really being celebrated over there, so i

the world is watching us. the world is leaders, we fail this people who are watching us to make sure we make thright decision. se16 thousand attendees and i am not a speck, i'm just a lint in conference. all the folks that i met that are living in south africa and places they can't thrive like us are asking, is san francisco a beautiful place to live at? how do you manage in san francisco? i reflected my front of me, because seen how every year and i bet neone every year something good happens for the trans community here. from legislation from laws and also from telling united point i was--we told them, we are not

doing business with you if you don't include trans in and we are a every year, think all the things our great people in san francisco do for ans community. i xoe know there are other communities thatand uplifted also, but i think community has very different needs and we want to make sure that we address those. my message for everyone, what kept me in this work, what kept me doing all the work i do right now, not only did i learn how to and everyone, because sometimes that is the breakdown happens when we have two different opinions and leave it at that. we need to communicate, express each other and respect eathen cofor our community. [applause] with that, thank you so much. mayor, thank you.

thank you. love you all. [applause] >> alright. we have been given the queue. there is a wedding coming, so we have to get out of do that, i want to say one last thank you to my staff. please give it up for chery, ne who helped organized everything today. you guys are amazing and did an incredsable job. thank you,b ve an amazing transhistory month. we have snacks in the hallway the mayor's office. please take some snacks and have an amazing august, y'all. thank you so much. yf [applause]

a city like no other, san francisco has been a beacon of hope and an ally towards lgbtq equal rights. [♪] known as the gay capital of at the forefront fighting gay civil becoming a bedrock for the historical firsts. the first city with the first openly gay bar. the first pride parade. the first city to legalize gay marriage. the first place of the iconic gay pride flag. established to help cancel policy programses, and initiatives

to support trans and lgbtq communities in san francisco. >> opportunity to have a seat at the table. where trans can be part of city government and create more civic engagement through our trans advisory committee which advises our office and thee also worked to really address where there's gaps see where we can address things like housing and homelessness, low income access to small businesses and employment and education. so we really workedll as meeting overall office of transgenders locally to track lgbtq across the country. >> especially our young trans kids and students. so we do a lot of make sure we're addressing and

naming those anticies and doing what we can to combat >> transies often have not been included at the policy level whether that's local government state government. we've always and figure out how to care for our own ities. so an office like this can really show and become a model for the country on how to really help makeommunity is served by we all get opportunities to participate because because, in the our entire communityandemic underscored many of the inequities they experienced on a daily basis. nonetheless, this health crisis also highlighted the strength in the lgb and trans ral of our team members were deployed as part of the work center and they did incredit able work.j there both in terms of navigation and shelter-in-place hotels to other team members who led gbtq inclusion work to make sure we had pop-up

testing and i sites across the city as well as making sure that data collection was happening. we had state that required that we orientation and our team worked so closely with d.p.h. to make sure those questions were included at testing site but also throughout the whole network of care. part of the work i've had a privilege to be apart of was to work with o.t.i. and a community organizati monthly to make sure we worked together andnated as much as we could to lgbtq communities in the city. >> partnering with community the success of this office ensuringder nonconforming people have access to a wide range of services and places to go where they will be respected. o.t.i.'s trans advisory committee is committed to being that voice. >> the transgender advisory counsel is a group of amazing community leaders here in think we all come from all walks ofse

different backgrounds, different expertises and i s just an amazing group of people that have a vision to make san f true liberated city for transgender eing apart of the group allows us to provide more information the ground. we're allowed toandemic, there's always been an issue around language barriers and education access and workforce development. now, of course the city has been more invested in to make sure our community is thriving mobilizing. >> all of the supervisors along with mayor london breed know to be done and like ibefore i'm just so happy to live in a city where they see folks and recognize us of human we deserve

to live with dignity and everybody else. >> being part of initiative has been just a great privilege for me and i feel so lucky to have been able to serve for it for so)ñ three years. it's the only office of its kind and i think it's a big opportunity for us to show the country or the world about things we can do when we really put a focus on transgender issues and transgender communitie you put tran leadership positions. >> thank you claire. and i just want to say to claire farly who is the leader of the office of transgender initiative really taken that role to a whole other level and currently a grand marshal for this year's s.f. prize. so congratulations really look at where we want san francisco to be in the future. how can we have a place where we have transliberation quality, and inclusion, and equity across san francisco? ando when i look five years from now, ten years from now, i

want us to make sure that we're continuing to lead the country that we can be. not only are we working to make sure we have jobs and equal opportunity and pathways to education,0.3dployment, and making sure we're taking care of our most impacted communities, our trans comqimunities of color, trans women of color and black transwomen. and we're making sure we're addressing the barriers of the health care and mental health services and we're supporting our work and really be able to age in place and they deserve. so there's so much more work to the work that we've done so far. [♪] >> in the town inside

here i'm young. he was putting art, music and drinking together upon today have a nonpretentious pretentious spitz that the community can enjoy each other and the time off we getn this world. [music] >> spends energy elevating artists and credit a safe place. a place to have a community. >> it is i great neighborhood thej art district because we have the contemp refer of sf. yerba buena for arts all of the operators and businesses y we get together and xhoukt and support each other this is a very cool neighborhood to be a part of. [music] paint on canvas is primary l when we do. this is guilty pleasures an all female artist show. it is going to be great.

fun we have interactive elements.&j love having this gem. you know people come in and to feel at home. this is like home san francisco >> never be afraid it anybodying door. [laughter]. if the hours are post and you had want to seat art we are here 9 o'clock to 5 o'clock most days. [music] $m i francisco public works commission. today is monday, it is ÷3 secretary fuller, the roll here, or , here. chair post isresent. commissioner turner is present.

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