SALT LAKE CITY — You’ll soon start seeing striped pink, white, and blue flags popping up in Utah neighborhoods ahead of Trans Awareness Week.
More than 200 volunteers with Project Rainbow Utah staked more than 1,100 flags across Salt Lake, Ogden, and Logan Sunday afternoon in solidarity with the transgender community.
The Transgender Day of Remembrance honors those who have been murdered because of anti-transgender violence. Transgender Awareness Week begins Nov. 13 and ends on Transgender Day of Remembrance on Nov. 19.
“After a difficult week, this is medicine to our souls,” said Jacey Thornton, Project Rainbow’s executive director. “To have volunteers here to talk, hug, cry, scream, rage and laugh with each other is so important. It’s one of the best medicines we have.”
The trans flags are popping up after President-elect Donald Trump said he plans to roll back transgender rights during his second term in office. His plan includes rolling back the Biden administration’s policy of extending Title IX civil rights protections to transgender students and asking Congress to require that only two genders are recognized at birth, according to the Associated Press.