Finger Lakes Justice Partnership

Committing to the Trans Community

On April 1, 2023, The Finger Lakes Justice Partnership, in conjunction with our allies Keuka Compass, Penn Yan PRIDE Coalition, Geneva Women’s Assembly, St. Mark’s Episcopal Church (Penn Yan), Family Counseling Service of the Finger Lakes, and Southern Finger Lakes Pride, announced our Committing to the Trans Community Campaign. Its mission is to make clear our dedication to the dignity and well-being of the Finger Lakes’ transgender, nonbinary, intersex and gender-nonconforming (GNC), and other LGBTQ+ neighbors and visitors. 

For this campaign, we created a sign and promoted it with businesses and organizations across the region. By the end of 2023, more than 35 partners had committed to displaying the sign in their windows or onsite. This campaign is continuing. We encourage you to support these churches, businesses, organizations, and institutional departments who have committed to demonstrating that Love Wins, and that through their words and deeds, they will help ensure that the Finger Lakes will become an ever-safer region for our trans siblings.

From the press release:

The mission of this campaign is to make clear our dedication to the dignity and well-being of the Finger Lakes’ transgender, nonbinary, intersex and gender-nonconforming (GNC) and other LGBTQ+ neighbors and visitors.  This is a living, ongoing campaign that we expect will welcome numerous additional partners from throughout the Finger Lakes as awareness of its necessity spreads.

That necessity is due, in part, to an ever-mounting wave of legislation targeting trans people across the nation, and in part to ever-escalating rhetoric that marginalizes, otherizes, and dehumanizes this same population.  The two phenomena together represent a disturbing process that we fear will result in the further normalization of violence and eliminationism directed at our beloved trans siblings.  At the same time, our campaign is a part of FLXJP’s ongoing mission to demonstrate that the values of acceptance, belonging, and community remain by far the stronger forces in our society than those of hatred and division, and that these attacks are driven by a small but vocal minority that we can drown out with a chorus of unity, resilience, and support.

Starting now, our allied organizations in communities throughout the region are reaching out to businesses and institutions, inviting them to exhibit visible solidarity for all trans people.  By making proud and public declarations in our physical spaces and online, we live out our values of acceptance, belonging, and community.  This, in turn, creates a safer, more welcoming society for our trans siblings and everyone else who feels ‘other’ – which is every single one of us, at one time or another.

Read the full press release here.

List of Businesses
Picture of woman holding Committing to the Trans Campaign sign which reads, "We support our Trans Neighbors," and depicts the outline of the Finger Lakes overlayed on the progress pride flag.
Two people holding a sign which reads, "We Support our Trans Neighbors." They are standing in front of a banner which reads, "Mush Love Greens, Geneva, NY, Mushrooms, Microgreens, Edible Flowers, Seasonal Produce, Honey, Eggs, (315) 730-2715."
A group of people poses for a photo. They are holding two signs. They read, "We Support our Trans Neighbors," and "Yates County Democrats, Serving ALL YC Residents."
A group of people stands. One person holds a sign which reads, "We Support Our Trans Neighbors." It has an outline of the Finger Lakes on top of an image of the progress pride flag.
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