During a rally outside the Capitol Building on Monday to honor Transgender Day Of Visibility, Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) spoke in support of passing legislation to protect transgender rights.
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00:00Thank you for having me here today. Let me begin by saying loud and clear, trans rights are human rights.
00:10We know this, and we know this is in the face of Donald Trump and Elon Musk and Republicans' relentless campaign against transgender Americans.
00:24We have seen transgender Americans banned from the military, denied life-saving, gender-affirming care.
00:31Trump and Musk and Republicans are wrong, and they are wrong for telling you who you are and who you can be.
00:42They are wrong for using money for health care and education as a tool for discrimination.
00:49And they are wrong for fighting so hard to take away your freedom.
00:55The Trump administration may try to use trans people to attack Americans' basic rights and freedoms, but they will never win.
01:07They cannot keep people from being who they are. Transgender and non-binary people will continue to exist, and I will keep fighting with you.
01:19But they are going to keep fighting to intimidate and threaten trans people, their families, and their providers,
01:32because hate and fear is easier than the fight for freedom, equity, and justice for every American.
01:41Growing up, I was taught that you can't beg for your rights. You organize and you take them.
01:48And we are here today to take those rights. Thank you for being here.
01:54We are here to organize and fight for trans rights, for health care, and freedom, and liberation.
02:02Your visibility shows them. Republicans will never take your existence from you.
02:10And while they fight to take your freedom, your visibility, and your joy away, I will stand with you.
02:19That is why I am fighting to pass my Trans Bill of Rights, which I've introduced into the United States Senate.
02:28This resolution recognizes that the federal government has a duty to guarantee trans rights
02:37and ensure access to health care, to housing, to safety, to economic security.
02:45Freedom is not inevitable. It is fought for by people who say no in the face of discrimination,
02:52no in the face of invasive laws that seek to limit what health care you can get,
02:58and no to the anti-justice and anti-freedom agenda driving attacks on trans people.
03:06I am proud to stand with you today and every day to organize and to fight,
03:13because trans rights are human rights. I love you. Thank you.