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25-0477
| 1 | | | Committee Minutes | COMMITTEE MINUTES
Approval of the minutes from the meeting of 10/23/2024. | | |
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24-6463
| 1 | | DISAPPEARANCE OF TRANS WOMEN | Resolution | PROPOSED RESOLUTION
RAISING AWARENESS OF THE DISAPPEARANCE OF TRANS WOMEN
WHEREAS, Taylor Casey, 42, a transwoman from Chicago, was last seen on June 19, 2024 on Paradise Island, which is adjacent to Nassau, the Bahamas’ capital; and
WHEREAS, The Windy City Times described Casey as “a fixture of Chicago’s transgender community and a beloved youth advocate.” And
WHEREAS, since the day of her disappearance, local authorities have made little to no progress towards finding Taylor Casey or solving her case in order to explain her disappearance; and
WHEREAS, Casey’s case is only one of countless of disappearances in the country that go unsolved, overlooked or simply ignored, exemplifying the disparity in attention towards transgender people’s victimization. According to a study by the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law published in 2021, transgender people are over four times more likely than cisgender people to experience violent victimization, including rape, sexual assault, and aggravated or simple assault; and
WHEREAS, according to a 2023 Human Rights Campaign | | |
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