Transgender activist Qween Jean was among several people arrested on disorderly conduct charges during a “Trans Revolution” rally in Greenwich Village’s Washington Square Park on Wednesday night.
Jean, the event’s organizer, is a prominent figure in the transgender movement. She was one of about 60 transgender rights activists who took part in the rally at the park, under the watchful eye of a heavy police presence.
A volunteer with the Black Trans Liberation Kitchen, which distributed food to the Black trans community at the rally, said they’ve seen an increase in people using their service, which works with the Food Insecurity Group to fight for food justice.
“In this city, as Qween said, we are all one paycheck away from being homeless, from being unhoused, from being hungry, unfortunately,” they said.
Author and vegan activist Stewart Mitchell, aka Vigilante Vegan, attended the Greenwich Village rally because he considered it his duty as a cisgender heterosexual man to stand in solidarity with the transgender community.
“These are people fighting for their basic human rights. And they are being denied that every day,” Mitchell said. “Every day we look on the news, Texas, Florida, and other states are constantly taking away the rights of queer people, and specifically trans people. And this is a harm to their community.”
According to Translegislation Tracker, 556 anti-trans bills have been proposed nationwide this year alone — and 79 have already passed.
“It has been an ongoing slot of anti-trans legislation bills,” Qween Jean said. “We are fed up with our community constantly having to prove our worth, constantly having to prove and defend our humanity. We will no longer remain silent.”
Qween Jean told the crowd she was “outraged” by the crisis the trans community was facing and that “they were sadly mistaken” if they believed the anti-trans wave only affected transgender people in Florida, Texas, or the Midwest,…
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