DSS Spring 2025 Newsletter

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A note from the Chair of DSS
Living under the dark clouds of ignorance & hate

Our newsletters are designed to inform you of all the good work we're doing and bring hope and positive news to our communities. But I start this newsletter with a different tone, reflecting the current political events of our neighbors to the South.

I, and many of my colleagues and friends, have spent most of our careers trying to push the needle to a point where society values all of its complexity and gives voice and space to everyone including our 2SLGBTQIA+ plus communities. To experience a Western democracy enact binary legislation is nothing more than shocking for us, which - in the words of my dear friend and DSS board member Dr. Victoria A. Stuart , Ph.D. - is tantamount to "trans genocide" (transgenocide).

I urge community members to rally in support of our trans and nonbinary communities, for it is only through mutual liberation that we can all achieve social equity and be valued as part of a complex social system.
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