Fairfax County Virginia has named Easter Sunday 2024 as \u201cTransgender Visibility Day,\u201d in what many Christians see as a hijack of their most sacred holiday.<\/p>\n
The Fairfax County School Board has added Transgender Visibility Day to its prior designations of June as LGBT Pride Month and October as LGBT History Month for a remarkable 62 days of LGBT celebration in the district\u2019s schools.<\/p>\n
The Rev. Emma Chattin, executive director of Transgender Education Association,\u00a0praised<\/a>\u00a0the board\u2019s decision, asserting that visibility can be \u201ca heroic thing, especially for our trans women of color in our community, who face additional intersectional obstacles of prejudice regarding safety, housing, employment and health care.\u201d<\/p>\n Writing for the\u00a0Washington Examiner<\/em>, however, Fairfax local Stephanie Lundquist-Arora\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0the board members are telling Christians they do not matter by turning \u201cone of their holiest days into a celebration of an ideology that undermines the church\u2019s core convictions.\u201d<\/p>\n The school board\u2019s nine Democrats all voted in favor of the measure, whereas the token Republican on the board, Patrick Herrity, did not show up for the vote.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m looking forward to the day when we have a full dais for this proclamation, and that day will come,\u201d said board member James Walkinshaw of Herrity\u2019s absence. \u201cOne way or the other, that day will come.\u201d<\/p>\n That sentiment was echoed by Democrat Dalia Palchik, supervisor for the Providence district of the county. \u201cWhat we say at this dais matters,\u201d she said. \u201cWhat you say in the community, what our leaders say and the outcome of that really matters.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOur transgender students are depressed,\u201d Palchik contended. \u201cNearly half have considered suicide. You see across the board in our LGBT community that it is the one community that stands out higher than any other demographic in our students of depression, attempting suicide, considering suicide.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cTo me, it is a moral imperative and also a public health imperative that we band together,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Read more at: breitbart.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fairfax County Virginia has named Easter Sunday 2024 as \u201cTransgender Visibility Day,\u201d in what many Christians see as a hijack of their most sacred holiday. The Fairfax County School Board has added Transgender Visibility Day to its prior designations of June as LGBT Pride Month and October as LGBT History Month for a remarkable 62 … Continue reading Fairfax Democrats Choose Easter Sunday as \u2018Transgender Visibility Day\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/watching-300x100-300x100-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-6tz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24898,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24897\/revisions\/24898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}