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| 3 | 3 | | 2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE |
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| 4 | 4 | | 2023 SENATE JOINT RESOLUTIO N 42 |
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| 5 | 5 | | May 15, 2023 - Introduced by Senators SPREITZER, CARPENTER, AGARD, HESSELBEIN, |
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| 6 | 6 | | L. JOHNSON, LARSON, ROYS and SMITH, cosponsored by Representatives |
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| 7 | 7 | | CABRERA, NEUBAUER, SNODGRASS, RATCLIFF, CLANCY, C. ANDERSON, J. ANDERSON, |
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| 8 | 8 | | ANDRACA, BALDEH, BARE, CONLEY, CONSIDINE, EMERSON, GOYKE, HONG, |
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| 9 | 9 | | JACOBSON, JOERS, MADISON, MOORE OMOKUNDE, OHNSTAD, ORTIZ-VELEZ, |
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| 10 | 10 | | PALMERI, SHANKLAND, SHELTON, SINICKI, STUBBS and SUBECK. Referred to |
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| 11 | 11 | | Committee on Senate Organization. |
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| 12 | 12 | | Relating to: proclaiming November 20, 2023, as Wisconsin's Transgender Day of |
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| 13 | 13 | | Remembrance. |
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| 14 | 14 | | Whereas, Transgender Day of Remembrance, which occurs annually on |
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| 15 | 15 | | November 20, is a day to memorialize those who have been murdered as a result of |
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| 16 | 16 | | transphobia and to bring attention to the continued violence endured by the |
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| 17 | 17 | | transgender and nonbinary community; and |
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| 18 | 18 | | Whereas, Transgender Day of Remembrance was founded in 1999 by |
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| 19 | 19 | | Gwendolyn Ann Smith, a transgender woman, to memorialize the murder of |
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| 20 | 20 | | transgender woman Rita Hester in Allston, Massachusetts; and |
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| 21 | 21 | | Whereas, since its inception, Transgender Day of Remembrance has evolved |
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| 22 | 22 | | into an international day of action; and |
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| 23 | 23 | | Whereas, the American Medical Association recognizes the violence that |
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| 24 | 24 | | transgender and nonbinary people face in our society as an epidemic; and |
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| 25 | 25 | | Whereas, transgender Americans face discrimination and violence at |
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| 26 | 26 | | unacceptable rates, and in 2021, the Human Rights Campaign received a record |
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| 44 | 44 | | 2023 - 2024 Legislature |
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| 45 | 45 | | number of reports of fatal incidents against transgender and nonbinary people, with |
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| 46 | 46 | | at least 59 lives taken; and |
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| 47 | 47 | | Whereas, in 2022, at least 38 transgender or nonbinary people were reported |
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| 48 | 48 | | killed; and |
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| 49 | 49 | | Whereas, the American value of self-determination is under attack when a |
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| 50 | 50 | | transgender person is murdered in a crime of hate; now, therefore, be it |
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| 51 | 51 | | Resolved by the senate, the assembly concurring, That the Wisconsin |
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| 52 | 52 | | Legislature does hereby recognize and proclaim November 20, 2023, to be |
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| 53 | 53 | | Wisconsin's Transgender Day of Remembrance. |
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