Val Hoyle Calls For ‘Solidarity’ With Trans Community Amid Trump Admin’s Targeted ‘Fear-Mongering’

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During a rally outside the Capitol Building on Monday to honor Transgender Day Of Visibility, Rep. Val Hoyle (D-OR) calls for solidarity in support LGBTQ rights.

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00:00How we doing today? So I am Val Hoyle, I represent the Central and South Coast of

00:08Oregon and there's a bunch of people on Trans Day of Visibility that want us,

00:14that want you to disappear, to be quiet, anyone who's different. Well I'm here to

00:21say we'll stand with you loud and proud.

00:29I'm here to say that what's clear is that people living as their authentic

00:35selves should not be a problem for anyone else. I'm here to stand with the

00:41trans community because how you choose to live your life as your

00:47authentic self does not scare me nor should it scare me because our diversity

00:53is our strength. And what we've seen over the last election cycle is fear-mongering

01:01and disinformation targeting the trans community and it's wrong. We have to

01:10stand together because as so many transgender activists have said trans

01:14people may be the first target but they will not be the last. And we've seen the

01:21same cruel targets being used against unions, against immigrants, against legal

01:26permanent residents and against who had their only crime was exercising their

01:35right to free speech. Well growing up in the labor movement I learned very young

01:41one thing and that is an attack on one is an attack on all. And the only way to

01:52push back against you know some of the most powerful people in the world who

01:58have targeted trans people specifically is through solidarity across gender

02:06identities, races, genders, colors, creeds, class. It doesn't matter. We stand

02:14together or we all fall. So the fact of the matter is your rights as trans

02:22people are directly tied to my rights as a woman which are directly tied to the

02:28rights of college students, to immigrants because we may not have the

02:35same story but we are all vulnerable if we don't stand up. If we say it's okay

02:43because I'm not like them they won't stop. They will not stop. So just so you

02:49know I will defend your right to live as you are as long as I am in this body

02:57because your right to be just you is directly tied to all of our rights. So I

03:05want to thank thank again the Christopher Street Project for this

03:09opportunity to speak to you today. Know you are welcome in my office here or if

03:14you're in Oregon and I'd like to introduce the voted the most effective

03:20freshman legislator of the 118th Congress Hawaiian Jill Takuda.

Val Hoyle Calls For ‘Solidarity’ With Trans Community Amid Trump Admin’s Targeted ‘Fear-Mongering’

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