03/27/2025
Tonight, Mayor Catherine Read proclaimed March 31, 2025, as Transgender Day of Visibility in . Rev. Emma Chattin of MCC of Northern Virginia and community members accepted the proclamation.
The mayor also calls upon our community to recognize the inherent value, dignity, and humanity of all who reside in the city and to strive to be an open and inclusive city where transgender people of all ages feel safe and welcome.
The City of Fairfax is committed to recognizing and supporting those in our community who identify as transgender, gender non-binary, gender non-conforming, and gender fluid. Fairfax City is a proud supporter of the Transgender Education Association of Metropolitan Washington (TGEA)
— as well as their monthly meeting location, the Metropolitan Community Church of Northern Virginia Community Center.
Fairfax City values our transgender children, youth, and people who care for them, making it incumbent upon all of us to ensure they are protected, celebrated, and allowed to live their lives authentically, shielding them from harm in our hometown.
Access to resources in healthcare, education, housing, transportation, and employment is essential to the well-being of the transgender community, along with the commitment of law enforcement professionals to ensure we have safe public spaces free of harassment and discrimination.
On March 31, 2009, transgender activist Rachel Crandall founded the International Transgender Day of Visibility to celebrate the achievements of transgender and gender non-conforming people and to raise awareness of the discrimination they face.
The passage of the Virginia Values Act of 2020 makes the commonwealth the first U.S. southern state to enact non-discrimination protections for LGBTQ people, the first state in more than a decade to add both sexual orientation and gender identity to an existing non-discrimination law, and the first state since 1993 to add a prohibition on discrimination in public accommodations where none existed before.
