{"id":1184,"date":"2024-03-09T15:19:53","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T20:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tgea.org\/?p=1184"},"modified":"2024-03-09T15:21:50","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T20:21:50","slug":"march-2024-community-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tgea.org\/?p=1184","title":{"rendered":"March 2024 &#8211; Community News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On March 19, the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors<br \/> Proclaims March 31 Transgender Day of Visibility <\/strong><br \/>\nOn March 19, the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors  will present TGEA with a certificate officially proclaiming March 31 as the Transgender Day of Visibility. The meeting will be held at 9:30 AM in the Board Auditorium at the Fairfax County Government Center, 12000 Government Center Parkway, Fairfax, VA.<br \/>\nRev. Emma will be speaking briefly and receiving the proclamation on behalf of the organization.<br \/>\nIt would be wonderful to have any many folks there as possible &#8211; LGBTIQ + friends, family, allies &#8211; all together in unity, especially during these challenging times. There will be an opportunity for a group photograph, and we would love to make it a big &#8220;family&#8221; photo!<br \/>\n\ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nThere will be other proclamations, and at this point, there is no way of knowing when this proclamation will happen, although it is often within the first hour (sometimes there are multiple speakers and so it is difficult to predict). <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>Day of Visibility Rally Thurs March 21 6 PM <\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/20240319_FCPS-Rally.jpg\"><br \/>\nJoin FCPS Pride and other supporting organizations at<br \/>\nLuther Jackson &#8211; 3020 Gallows Rd. Falls Church, VA<br \/>\nRally Begins at 6 p.m<br \/>\nAt 7 folks should go in to the school board meeting to support and stand for 1)<br \/>\nTheatre Programs and teachers as they are honored by the school board; and<br \/>\n2) in support of community speakers as they testify about 1) Diversity in Our<br \/>\nSchool Libraries and in Our Theatre offerings and 2) in support of the school<br \/>\nboard and superintendent Reid as they oppose the abhorrent lawsuit against<br \/>\ntransgender students existence from Stephen Miller\u2019s America First Legal<br \/>\nFoundation. If interested in speaking at the Rally<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:fcpspride@gmail.com\">email fcpspride@gmail.com <\/a><br \/>\nor text Robert at 202-295-7939.<br \/>\nThere will be songs, speakers, chants, calls for action, signs and miniature<br \/>\nflags. After the Rally, the school board meets at 7:00&#8211;presentations begin<br \/>\nsoon afterwards. We can wave our flags to honor the theatre teachers, join the<br \/>\nphoto if we would like, and wave flags, hold signs. <\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 19, the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Proclaims March 31 Transgender Day of Visibility On March 19, the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors will present TGEA with a certificate officially proclaiming March 31 as the Transgender Day of Visibility. The meeting will be held at 9:30 AM in the Board Auditorium at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tgea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tgea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tgea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tgea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tgea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1184"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tgea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1186,"href":"https:\/\/www.tgea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184\/revisions\/1186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tgea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tgea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tgea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}