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Council Member Cabán explains the importance of legislation for TGNC, NBI New Yorkers
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Council Member Tiffany Cabán provides remarks on the importance of legislation requiring New York City to communicate with transgender, gender non-conforming, non-binary, and intersex (TGNC, NBI) New Yorkers about their rights and available resources. She emphasizes that the legislation is about survival and defending lives in the face of federal rollbacks on trans rights.
- Cabán highlights the bill's focus on transparency, accessibility, and solidarity.
- She stresses New York City's role as a national leader in advancing trans rights.
- Cabán expresses gratitude to the trans and gender non-conforming community for their advocacy.
Tiffany Cabán
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Thank you very much.
0:06:19
I'm gonna be brief because I I know we'll be talking about this again at pre stated and and stated, but I just this is important legislation.
0:06:28
You know, it it very simply, at least my bill requires New York City to communicate with TGNC, NBI, New Yorkers about all of their rights and the resources that are available, highlighting every resource, every fund, every program.
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This bill is about transparency, accessibility, solidarity.
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But most importantly, it's about survival.
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The whole package is about survival.
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Because we're not just defending an ideology here, we're defending lives.
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Period.
0:06:53
That is what we are doing, defending lives in the face of a Trump administration that's rolling back health care protections, that's targeting trans youth, that's attempting to erase trans people from public life.
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Those are reminders that our work is just beginning, and New York City must continue to be a national leader, not just in resisting harm, but in actively advancing the rights and safety of the trans community.
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We have to validate trans and gender nonconforming existence at every level of local government because we've got the federal government returning ripped up passports and documents.
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It is left up to us.
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And, you know, I will say that while and there are, it's true, in other parts of the country and the world, you may not know trans and intersex and nonbinary individual.
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And, you know, as part of our our as being part of the queer community and specifically being part of a queer community that is hell bent on protecting the civil rights and dignity of all people, we have, I have trans and gender nonconforming people to thank for that, to have shown me that way and have shown me how to fight for everyone, not just themselves.
0:08:03
So I'm really proud and grateful to be able to stand up and fight for them in this really concrete material way today.
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So thank you.