Virginia's Fairfax County voted to have a good time Transgender Day of Visibility on March 31.
Easter falls on March 31 this 12 months.
The Fairfax Board of Supervisors voted 9-0 on the movement.
Jeff McKay, chairman of the county council, mentioned the choice was “an ethical duty to face up for all individuals, not simply individuals we like or individuals we agree with”.
Fairfax County residents have been sad with the announcement. Stephanie Lundquist-Arora, head of the Fairfax chapter of the nonprofit Unbiased Girls's Community, known as the vote “reprehensible.
“By voting for Transgender Visibility Day this Easter, they’re intentionally making an attempt to offend Christians on their holiest of days by forcing gender ideology down their throats,” Lundquist-Arora mentioned. “That is reprehensible and unbecoming of our elected representatives.
Lundquist-Arora wrote within the Washington Examiner that the vote despatched a message to Christians that “they don't matter as a result of they’re turning one in all their most sacred days right into a celebration of an ideology that undermines the church's core beliefs.”
Final 12 months, on March 31, 2023, President Joe Biden issued a Transgender Day of Visibility proclamation “celebrating their resilience within the face of hateful anti-transgender legal guidelines being enacted throughout the nation.”
“Since President Biden's first day in workplace, the administration has taken historic steps to advance the equality, dignity and security of transgender Individuals, and he’s the primary president in historical past to debate the significance of increasing equality and countering assaults on transgender rights. Individuals in each state of the Union or in a joint session of Congress have spoken,” the assertion continued. “Whereas transgender Individuals have a steadfast champion within the president, conservative politicians have pushed by means of a whole lot of anti-transgender legal guidelines in states throughout the nation to date this 12 months, threatening the fundamental rights and freedoms of trans Individuals.”
