Posted on 04/16/2025 6:23:18 PM PDT by DoodleBob
City Councilors voted unanimously to declare Salem a "sanctuary city" for transgender and gender non-conforming people with the adoption of a resolution that condemns the Trump Administration's rollbacks of trans and non-binary rights and that calls for proactive work to protect students, teachers and other city employees who foster an environment of trans acceptance and support.
The resolution states that the city "recognizes the importance of gender-affirming healthcare as a matter of health, privacy and equality" for all residents and visitors to the city, while resolving that Salem will "ensure a safe and supportive environment for all students regardless of gender identity or expression in the Salem Public Schools."
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The resolution, which proponents said came from the work of more than two dozen people and drew widespread support during public comment at Thursday's City Council meeting, took specific aim at the Trump Administration and U.S. Congress members who have "taken specific, meaningful, executive and legislative action targeting the rights and safety of transgender, nonbinary and other members of the LGBTQIA+ community."
Those actions, according to the resolution, include prohibiting school athletic programs from allowing individuals whose assigned sex at birth was male to participate in programs for women or girls, making it the policy of the U.S. government to only recognize two sexes and eliminating gender self-identification, and actions restricting access gender-affirming healthcare to children and teens, as well as actions restricting the use of chosen pronouns and access to restrooms corresponding to a chosen self-gender-identity.
"The resolution speaks for itself clearly and impactfully to the urgent need to take every action possible to protect and ensure the safety of our transgender and nonbinary community," … "This is a time for government and community leaders to be bold and brave, and lead with compassion...
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Be careful what you ask for, dear Salem, because you might just get it and a whole lot more!
With this group,the expectations and demands for Special Treatment have no top , have no bottom.
Non binary ghosts? Who knew!!!
They used to say you can’t go home again but some types are ready to return.
And to think, this is a place where they used to ‘burn witches’ for being a little different... From one bad extreme to another.
Just adding to the “Street Theatre” freak show downtown.
If Reddit was a city it could be called Portland, Seattle, and now Salem.
No one is doing anything to target the rights or safety of these mentally ill cross dressers.
Men in the womens bathroom is not a right. Beating girls in sports is not a man’s right no matter how nuts he is or how he dresses.
It is the safety and the rights of all females that is being targeted by the alphabet people. Females DO have a RIGHT to their own bathrooms, locker rooms and sports.
Those with gender dysphoria tend to be violent. Hopefully Salem has enough resources to thwart attacks.
Oh no, it's very important to protect the transgender and non-binary community from being rounded up and sent back to Transgenderstan as ICE has been doing. Not to mention the forced reversal surgeries that transgendered citizens have been subjected to as agents in black vans across the US drag them off to be forcibly restored to their original state. The horrors!
𝑯𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝑺𝒂𝒍𝒆𝒎 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒆𝒏𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒄𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒔.
I care about the innocent victims. As for the people supporting this?
I..do..not..care..what..happens..to..them. They own it.
I rode on a tourist bus around Salem at Halloween time. It was pretty fun.
The guide - who was dressed like Beetlejuice - said, in realty, no witches were burned during the Trials: nineteen were executed by hanging (fourteen women and five men). One other man, Giles Corey, was pressed to death.
Then the guide said “….And at least two dogs were killed during the trials.” The tourists went “awwwww.”
The tour guide then said “it NEVER fails! I mention the loss of human life…nothing. Then I mention that a few dogs die and everyone gets teary-eyed. Your priorities are messed up, people.”
He may be the only sane person in Salem.
Still the village of Satan and witches.
That’s why I put the ‘burn witches’ in ‘scare quotes’.
If they are Americans, knock yourselves out. I just won’t be spending any time or money there.
Just like San Fran.
Ay, que sorpresa-NOT! Salem is the place where greedy people called their relatives witches to get them executed to get their property, and got revenge on disliked neighbors the same way. If anyone ever deserved to have a bunch of whining, emotionally unstable drama queens move into their neighborhoods, it is Salem. I hope they are driven mad by their new residents, pronouns, hormones, gender affirming surgeries and all...
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