One million Massachusetts Residents now Live in Transgender Sanctuary Cities

Councilor-at-Large Julia Mejia

The Boston City Council voted 12-1 to pass a resolution Wednesday declaring it a Transgender Sanctuary City, making it the largest protected city in the Bay State.

Councilor-at-Large Julia Mejia and District 9 Councilor Liz Breadon called on Boston to adopt the measure supporting transgender people, pointing to what they see as harmful rhetoric coming from President Donald Trump and the White House, WBTS' Matt Prichard reports

The resolution says, in part, that Boston has "a specific commitment to protecting transgender and gender-diverse individuals. Taxpayer-funded agencies shall not comply with federal efforts to strip resources that safeguard their rights. Boston will not cooperate with federal or state policies that harm transgender and gender-diverse people and remains committed to ensuring their access to healthcare, housing, education, and employment without fear or discrimination."

Mejia and Breadon acknowledged that the resolution is symbolic and nonbinding, but Mejia said it is a critical first step and an "opportunity to set the groundwork for the legislation."

Last month, the Worcester city council voted overwhelmingly to become a transgender sanctuary city. Council members hope that the legislature takes notice and enacts laws making all of Massachusetts safe for LGBTQI people. Between Cambridge, Northampton, Boston, and Worcester, just shy of a million people are now living in transgender sanctuary cities.

Judge Again Excoriates Trump Lawyers over Transgender Military Ban

Judge Reyes noted that Pete Hegseth, at the time he issued the policy ‘had been the Secretary of Defense for about 30 days and had no prior military history other than, I think, he had an early deployment before his television career?’ (AFP via Getty Images)

The Judge who is considering Trump's transgender troops ban, tells lawyers that evidence supplied by them suggests that transgender troops are as well or better suited to serve than cisgender counterparts. She then sent Trump's lawyers back for 30 minutes to partake in a trans 101 and read the DOD policy.

District Judge Ana Reyes will rule on the troop ban next week.

District Judge Ana Reyes was incredulous when told by a Trump lawyer that the policy does not include all trans people.

The judge then cited a Defense Department post on X from February 27: “Transgender troops are disqualified from service without an exemption.” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth also shared the post from his official account according to The Independent.

“Do you think you can say one thing in public…and say another thing in court? This wasn’t some off-the-cuff remark at a cocktail party?” Reyes asked.

The judge asked if he was using “loose language” but Manion argued Hegseth was using “shorthand.”

“I’m not going to speculate that he was just being sloppy when he said that. I’m going to take him at his word,” the judge said.

Judge Reyes asked the Attorneys if they had read any of the pertinent data supplied by the DOD. When they confessed to be totally ignorant she advised them that "The study showed a group of trans people were deployed longer than a comparison group of non-transgender service members who were diagnosed with depression," the judge said. If anything that shows that transgender troops are as well suited, if not better than other troops on long deployments.