Florida DSA Statement for Trans Day of Visibility

Florida DSA Statement for Trans Day of Visibility

We, undersigned chapters of the Democratic Socialists of America in the State of Florida, stand in full and unapologetic support of trans liberation. On and around March 31st, DSA chapters across the country are participating in a Day of Action for Transgender Day of Visibility. Join your nearest action and join DSA as we continue to struggle until all of us are free! dsausa.org/join


Pasco-Hernando DSA

Broward County DSA

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Jacksonville DSA

Tampa DSA

Pensacola DSA 

Miami DSA

Pinellas DSA

Palm Beach DSA

Space Coast DSA

Over the past two years, Ron DeSantis and the far-right state legislature launched an all-out assault on the rights of transgender Floridians. They banned life-saving gender affirming care for trans minors, prohibited Florida Medicaid from covering gender affirming care, complicated access to care by prohibiting nurse practitioners from prescribing gender affirming care, made it a crime for trans people to use their preferred restroom, and are currently preventing trans people from changing the gender marker on their drivers’ licenses. These laws are part of the Florida GOP’s racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, anti-worker agenda and today, over 80% of LGBTQ Floridians want to leave—they should not be uprooted from their hometowns and communities.


Working people are resisting this far-right agenda… and we are starting to win! The YDSA at University of Central Florida recently pressured their administration to lower the cost of Plan B to $6, and the YDSA at Florida International University passed a resolution calling on their administration to construct more gender-neutral restrooms on campus. Supporters of reproductive rights, including members of DSA, collected over a million petition signatures to put abortion rights on the ballot in November! And this month, 21 out of 22 proposed anti-LGBTQ bills in the Florida Legislature were defeated by the end of the legislative session.


None of these victories could have happened without the tens of thousands of working people who took to the streets, marched on Tallahassee, walked out of class, attended school board meetings, mobilized their communities to call local representatives, and knocked on doors. If we are going to end these bans and achieve genuine trans liberation — free healthcare including free gender-affirming care, the right to change our gender markers and legal names, living wages and affordable housing — we need to build a mass movement for socialism, trans rights, and bodily autonomy for all!

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