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From GLAAD, the Organizer: "Transgender Awareness Week is a week when transgender people and their allies take action to bring attention to the community by educating the public about who transgender people are, sharing stories and experiences, and advancing advocacy around the issues of prejudice, discrimination, and violence that affect the transgender community." _______________ Approximately 1.4 million people refer to themselves as transgender worldwide (0.00175%). However, this number increased exponentially in Western cultures (1900% in the United Kingdom alone by 2022), specifically within Generation Z (those born between 1997-2012) beginning in 2010, coinciding with the advent and increase in social media platform ease and reach. WHAT IS TRANSGENDER? A trans-woman is a biological-at-birth man who wants to or has gender transitioned into presenting as female. A trans-man is a biological-at-birth woman who wants to or has gender transitioned into presenting as a man. Transgender people mentally and/or physically alter their presentation to coordinate with their feelings and beliefs. This change is referred to in the community as "gender transitioning." "Gender-affirming care" is how the trans community describes the medical process of changing a person's visible sexuality. It requires deploying one or more of the following tools (in most cases for the rest of their life): Operations Social engagement Pronouns Hormone therapy. These tools allow a person to change appearance, activity, and presentation from female to male or male to female. Transgender people typically dress to represent the sex they believe they should be. BIOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN TRANS AND NON TRANS Hormones, behaviors, and surgery can alter many physical, behavioral, and cognitive traits. However, surgery and hormones cannot change DNA, chromosomes, and the physical ability to become pregnant or impregnate a person of the opposite sex via copulation. A trans-woman will never get pregnant naturally, ovulate, menstruate, go through female menopause, experience ovarian or cervical cancer, endometriosis, or other diseases specific to female reproductive organs. Concurrently, a trans man will never naturally impregnate a woman, create sperm or deal with prostate or testicular cancer. NON-BINARY VS TRANS Often confused with trans is non-binary. A non-binary person feels male on some days and female on others and presents differently depending upon the day. Non-binary people have not transitioned. _______________ We've included three videos below that present both sides of this socially divisive issue. One from the point of view of the trans community. The second is the full 2:15:00 July 28, 2023 C-Span recording of the Congressional hearing on Gender-affirming care. The third is an interview between a British biologist Richard Dawkins and the author of "TRANS—When Ideology Meets Reality," Helen Joyce, Ph.D. It encapsulates why many are concerned and why Europe is dialing back authenticating transition among children without thorough psychological counseling, parental knowledge, and consent.

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National Day, (OM)(1940): November 18-19

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National Day in Oman marks the anniversary of November 18, 1940, the birthday of the late Sultan Qaboos bin Said. National Day is a national holiday.

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Bagpipes, Blow Bagpipes Day, Ntl.: November 19

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National Blow Bagpipes Day is a celebration about blowing your own horn—or pipes, in this case. This unofficial holiday provides bagpipe lovers another reason to play their favorite instrument. Bagpipes originated in Egypt and arrived in Ireland and Scotland via the Romans.

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Carbonated Beverage with Caffeine Day, Ntl.: November 19

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National Carbonated Beverage with Caffeine Day is an unofficial event with no sponsor aimed at reminding people to reduce their caffeine intake by switching from colas and high-caffeine beverages to alternatives like water.

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Discovery Day, (PR)(1493): November 19

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Discovery Day in Puerto Rico marks the anniversary of November 19, 1493, the official day Columbus discovered the island. Discovery Day is a national holiday.

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Entrepreneurs’ Day, National: November 19

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National Entrepreneurs' Day celebrates the entrepreneurs who are the foundation of the US House Resolution 401 aims to make the third Tuesday of every November National Entrepreneurs' Day. National Entrepreneurs' Day will become an official US holiday if the resolution is adopted.

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Equal Opportunity Day (1863): November 19

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Equal Opportunity Day commemorates the famous speech by President Abraham Lincoln, the Gettysburg Address, delivered on November 19, 1863. Coming in at just 272 words, it remains one of the most powerful speeches ever given. THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate —we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

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Garifuna Day (BZ)(1823): November 19

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Garifuna Day in Belize marks the anniversary of November 19, 1823, when Caribbean Africans arrived in Belize. The Garifuna established their own colony and are famous for their music. Garifuna Day is a national holiday.

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Have a Bad Day, Day: November 19

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Have a Bad Day is a celebration for people who are sick and tired of hearing “Have a Nice Day.” Instead, it is an opportunity to respond with “Have a Bad Day.”

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Men's Day, Intl.: November 19

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Objectives of International Men's Day include: Focusing on male health. Improving male-female relations. Promoting male-female equality. Highlighting positive male role models. Men have to celebrate their achievements and contributions to the community, family, marriage, and childcare while highlighting the social biases against them.

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National Day, (MO)(1949/2005): November 19

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National Day in Monaco marks the ascensions of Prince Rainier III on November 19, 1949, and Prince Albert II on November 19, 2005. It is also known as Sovereign Prince Day.

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Toilet Day, World (2001): November 19

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The World Toilet Organization originated on November 19, 2001, as part of the inaugural World Toilet Summit, the first global summit of its kind. The need for an international day to draw global attention to the worldwide sanitation crisis led to the establishment of World Toilet Day, and it continues to garner support from the United Nations, NGOs, the private sector, civil society organizations, and the international community.

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Absurdity Day: November 20

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Absurdity Day embraces the absurdity of daily living. Today, people have the right to be whacky and do silly things. Who knows, maybe that absurd idea or something you do could make you a million one day. Give it a shot!

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African Industrialization Day: November 20

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African Industrialization Day educates the international community on the opportunities and options now available due to African industrialization. On this day, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) seeks to educate and promote African development.

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Buss und Bettag (DE)(C): November 20

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A day of repentance, fasting, and prayer, Buss und Bettag occurs on the final Wednesday before the last Sunday of the church year. Buss und Bettag is a public holiday in Saxony.

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