We're a community who are powerful
and resilient.
We are a community who
has been oppressed and
ostracized and marginalized
and has been resisting
to claim our space within our
society.
My name is Bamby Salcedo.
I do have the privilege to be
the President and the CEO of
the Translatin@ Coalition.
And just in plain words, I am
going to say that we
are beautiful people.
We are an organization that
functions with two arms.
We do policy work.
We influence policy to
change the institutions that
continue to marginalize us.
We believe in the direct
empowerment of our community through
service provision.
Obviously, you are not able to
organize and mobilize people if
people are struggling
to have access to basic
services
and really to address those needs.
Trans, gender nonconforming,
intersex people, particularly those
who are young, understand
that we are powerful people,
that we are divine creations.
We not only have individual but also
collective power.
If we continue to resist, if we
continue to organize and strategize
and assert ourselves in this world,
we are going to make sure that we
live dignified lives.
You know, I always refer to myself
as I am a miracle:
yo digo qu soy un milagro.
The circumstances that I
have gone through,
the experiences that I have
overcome, I have been able
to overturn into opportunities.
And so
I know that I am a privileged person
in that sense, and I
try to use that privilege
to bring voice
to many of us who are not able to
speak.
My transgender, gender
non-conforming and intersex siblings
are dying.
We have been actively engaging our
elected officials about our needs.
And today we need your support.
We need your support to send a
message to our elected officials
that we exist and we are still here.
We need to inspire future
generations of trans, gender
non-conforming, and intersex youth
to keep living.
Sign the petition.
Make the call.
Send the emails.
Involucrate!
Danos nuestras rosas mientras
estemos con vida.
Give us our roses while we are still
here.
Get on it.
Love you.