And now I am going to brag, but in a way I hope will be useful to others.
In 2010, I was an elected county supervisor in Loudoun, Virginia. Yes, the same Loudoun that made a lot of press when its school board sought to protect students and staff from transphobes a few years ago.
Somehow, no one said much about the fact that the board I was on had passed those protections for county staff (which does not include the schools) over ten years earlier.
It was my idea.
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https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2010/01/loudoun-county-va-latest-to-add-glbt.html
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Prior VA governors had always started their term with Exec. Order #1, which prohibited discrimination in government based on sexual orientation. The new gov, Bob McDonnell, said he wasn't going to do that.
Local gov't powers are very limited in VA. But I did believe we could pass a rule that forbade sexual orientation discrimination in the county government. So I wrote that up and got a majority of my board to back me. At a friend's suggestion, I even added "gender identity" protections.
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This got us national press, a short gag on "The Daily Show," and me, personally, a lot of hate mail (some of it came from Nebraska). But it passed and it is still the law in Loudoun today. Opponents said we'd get sued, but that didn't happen.
So why do I brag about this? Because if my board could do it in 2010, yours can in 2025. Find out. Call you local county, town, or city rep. Ask them if you have this protection. If not, ask them to pass it.
We are not powerless.
We can resist.
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