California 2023-2024 Regular Session

California Senate Bill SR37 Compare Versions

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1	1	CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20232024 REGULAR SESSION Senate Resolution No. 37Introduced by Senator Cortese(Coauthors: Senators Eggman and Wiener)May 04, 2023 Relative to a day of remembrance for the Institute for Sexual Research. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTSR 37, as introduced, Cortese. Digest KeyBill TextWHEREAS, During World War II in Nazi Germany, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people faced inhumane treatment; andWHEREAS, Paragraph 175 of German law criminalized sexual acts between men, punishable by imprisonment, and was revised during the Nazi regime to apply more broadly to gestures as simple as looking at or touching another man; andWHEREAS, According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the police arrested about 100,000 men, along with many transgender women, nonbinary people, and gender nonconforming people whose identities were not recognized by the Nazi government, for allegedly violating this statute during the Nazi period, and approximately 50 percent were convicted; andWHEREAS, Ten thousand to fifteen thousand of those who were detained were then sent to concentration camps where many were subject to medical experiments and castration, and more than one-half of them did not survive these conditions; andWHEREAS, Paragraph 175 was not fully repealed until 1994, nearly 50 years after the end of World War II; andWHEREAS, The Institute for Sexual Research (Institute) in Berlin was founded in 1919 by Magnus Hirschfeld, a leading researcher of sexuality and gender and a German Jewish doctor; andWHEREAS, The Institute was an academic foundation devoted to research and advocacy for LGBT rights and health care, and it served thousands of LGBT patients for free; andWHEREAS, By 1930, the Institute provided a space for some of the first modern gender-affirming surgeries and prescribed gender-affirming hormones; andWHEREAS, The Institute housed a large library of art and research on gender and sexuality, including many rare and irreplaceable documents; and WHEREAS, On May 6, 1933, a group of Nazi-supporting youth, the German Student Union, attacked and occupied the Institute; andWHEREAS, Four days later, these youth publicly removed and burned the entire contents of the library in Berlins Bebelplatz square in one of the first Nazi book burnings, and it is estimated that tens of thousands of books were burned; andWHEREAS, Ninety years have passed since this act of hatred and violence; now, therefore, be itResolved by the Senate of the State of California, That the Senate recognizes the impact of Magnus Hirschfelds research and advocacy on LGBT history and the LGBT community; and be it furtherResolved, That the Senate recognizes May 10, 2023, as the anniversary the Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin was occupied and burned and that Californians are urged to observe this day of solemn remembrance in an appropriate manner; and be it furtherResolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.
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3	3	CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20232024 REGULAR SESSION Senate Resolution No. 37Introduced by Senator Cortese(Coauthors: Senators Eggman and Wiener)May 04, 2023 Relative to a day of remembrance for the Institute for Sexual Research. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTSR 37, as introduced, Cortese. Digest Key
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15	15	Introduced by Senator Cortese(Coauthors: Senators Eggman and Wiener)May 04, 2023
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34	34	WHEREAS, During World War II in Nazi Germany, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people faced inhumane treatment; and
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36	36	WHEREAS, Paragraph 175 of German law criminalized sexual acts between men, punishable by imprisonment, and was revised during the Nazi regime to apply more broadly to gestures as simple as looking at or touching another man; and
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38	38	WHEREAS, According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the police arrested about 100,000 men, along with many transgender women, nonbinary people, and gender nonconforming people whose identities were not recognized by the Nazi government, for allegedly violating this statute during the Nazi period, and approximately 50 percent were convicted; and
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40	40	WHEREAS, Ten thousand to fifteen thousand of those who were detained were then sent to concentration camps where many were subject to medical experiments and castration, and more than one-half of them did not survive these conditions; and
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42	42	WHEREAS, Paragraph 175 was not fully repealed until 1994, nearly 50 years after the end of World War II; and
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44	44	WHEREAS, The Institute for Sexual Research (Institute) in Berlin was founded in 1919 by Magnus Hirschfeld, a leading researcher of sexuality and gender and a German Jewish doctor; and
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46	46	WHEREAS, The Institute was an academic foundation devoted to research and advocacy for LGBT rights and health care, and it served thousands of LGBT patients for free; and
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48	48	WHEREAS, By 1930, the Institute provided a space for some of the first modern gender-affirming surgeries and prescribed gender-affirming hormones; and
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50	50	WHEREAS, The Institute housed a large library of art and research on gender and sexuality, including many rare and irreplaceable documents; and
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52	52	WHEREAS, On May 6, 1933, a group of Nazi-supporting youth, the German Student Union, attacked and occupied the Institute; and
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54	54	WHEREAS, Four days later, these youth publicly removed and burned the entire contents of the library in Berlins Bebelplatz square in one of the first Nazi book burnings, and it is estimated that tens of thousands of books were burned; and
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56	56	WHEREAS, Ninety years have passed since this act of hatred and violence; now, therefore, be it
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58	58	Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, That the Senate recognizes the impact of Magnus Hirschfelds research and advocacy on LGBT history and the LGBT community; and be it further
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60	60	Resolved, That the Senate recognizes May 10, 2023, as the anniversary the Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin was occupied and burned and that Californians are urged to observe this day of solemn remembrance in an appropriate manner; and be it further
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62	62	Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.