The Worcester City Council voted Tuesday to approve a resolution affirming support for LGBTQ+ people in Massachusetts' second-largest city
Elected officials in Worcester , Massachusetts , approved a resolution Tuesday night making it a sanctuary city for transgender and gender-diverse people.Almost 200 people were there, with many showing their support for the LGBTQ + community.Queer Residents of Worcester and Our Allies, a local advocacy group, petitioned for councilors to pass a resolution not to cooperate with federal and state officials on policies that they say harm people based on gender identity.
The measure also seeks to ensure that the LGBTQ+ community has access to health care, housing, education and employment without fear of discrimination."I'm really concerned for myself, my friends, and above all, my patients," said Ronan Palmer, a health care provider who is transgender."I'm able to be myself because I had this affirming medicine, and it scares me because we're seeing this administration go after our most vulnerable people.
With President Donald Trump's executive order on gender, activists are ramping up a petition for Worcester to stand behind transgender and gender diverse people. "We're really in this moment where we're looking at both the impact of the hyperlocal, and the ways in which transphobia and oppression operate, as well as the national, and the way that that is creating a climate of fear," Allie Cislo, an organizer with Queer Residents of Worcester and Our Allies who filed the petition, said on Tuesday.
The campaign after Worcester City Councilor-at-Large Thu Nguyen, who is nonbinary, taking a hiatus from the position after they say the council environment was transphobic.New Hampshire
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