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Recommendation to request City Manager to send a letter of opposition to President Trump, the Office for Civil Rights and the Department of Health and Human Services regarding their efforts to establish a legal definition of sex under Title IX that excludes transgender people.
Request new language in our State and Federal Agendas, in consultation with the LGBTQ Center of Long Beach, that specifically supports transgender-inclusive policies on the state and federal level.
DISCUSSION
A few weeks ago, the Trump Administration began considering options to redefine and
erase any definition of transgender identity from federal law by defining sex as assigned
at birth and immutable rather than based on gender identity. While disappointing, this
move by the administration is not surprising. Since taking office in 2016, the
administration has taken nearly 30 different actions against transgender and LGB
(Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual) people including protections of transgender students, attempting
to remove transgender people from the military and banning the word "transgender'' from
the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, to name a few.1 However, over the past
twenty years, the federal courts have continued to rule that federal sex discrimination laws
apply to transgender people as well 2 This potential change will endanger the over 1 A
million identified transgender individuals throughout the United States.3
Locally, Long Beach and the greater LA region are home to the gth largest population of
LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer) identified people in the nation4
And, as a city that has consistently stood with our LGBTQ siblings, we must continue to
do all that we can to oppose and fight back against this administration clearly rooted in
LGBTQ discrimination.
FISCAL IMPACT
There is no fiscal impact for this agenda item and there is minimal staff impact for this
agenda item.
SUGGESTED ACTION
Approve recommendation.
Respectfully Submitted,
LENA GONZALEZ
COUNCILWOMAN, FIRST DISTRICT
JEANNINE PEARCE
COUNCILMEMBER, SECOND DISTRICT
ROBERTO URANGA
COUNCILMEMBER, SEVENTH DISTRICT
REX RICHARDSON
COUNCILMEMBER, NINTH DISTRICT