AJR50,,112023 ASSEMBLY JOINT RESOLUTION 50 May 25, 2023 - Introduced by Representatives Cabrera, Neubauer, Snodgrass, Ratcliff, Clancy, C. Anderson, Andraca, Baldeh, Bare, Conley, Considine, Emerson, Goyke, Hong, Jacobson, Joers, Madison, Moore Omokunde, Ohnstad, Ortiz-Velez, Palmeri, Shankland, Shelton, Sinicki, Stubbs, Subeck, J. Anderson and Haywood, cosponsored by Senators Spreitzer, Carpenter, Agard, Hesselbein, L. Johnson, Larson, Roys and Smith. Referred to Committee on Rules.
AJR50,,22Relating to: proclaiming November 20, 2023, as Wisconsin’s Transgender Day of Remembrance. AJR50,,33Whereas, Transgender Day of Remembrance, which occurs annually on November 20, is a day to memorialize those who have been murdered as a result of transphobia and to bring attention to the continued violence endured by the transgender and nonbinary community; and AJR50,,44Whereas, Transgender Day of Remembrance was founded in 1999 by Gwendolyn Ann Smith, a transgender woman, to memorialize the murder of transgender woman Rita Hester in Allston, Massachusetts; and AJR50,,55Whereas, since its inception, Transgender Day of Remembrance has evolved into an international day of action; and AJR50,,66Whereas, the American Medical Association recognizes the violence that transgender and nonbinary people face in our society as an epidemic; and AJR50,,77Whereas, transgender Americans face discrimination and violence at unacceptable rates, and in 2021, the Human Rights Campaign received a record number of reports of fatal incidents against transgender and nonbinary people, with at least 59 lives taken; and AJR50,,88Whereas, in 2022, at least 38 transgender or nonbinary people were reported killed; and AJR50,,99Whereas, the American value of self-determination is under attack when a transgender person is murdered in a crime of hate; now, therefore, be it AJR50,,1010Resolved by the assembly, the senate concurring, That the Wisconsin Legislature does hereby recognize and proclaim November 20, 2023, to be Wisconsin’s Transgender Day of Remembrance.
