The three persons who submitted this petiton should be ashamed of themselves for filing such hate speech with clear intent to harm. The Department of Health has real issues to look into and address such as the extreme prevalence of black mold in rental units, the lack of upgrades and equipment failsafes at the Richmond city water plant, and resisting the no doubt impending order to disregard vaccines in defiance of all evidence that vaccination is our means of slowing and eradicating the spread of disease.

Transphobia is certainly a public health crisis, but it is a crisis that affects the queer community, BIPOC, and anyone who does not meet ‘acceptable’ gender presentation. The federal government is indulging in genocidal actions against transgender people across the globe and we are seriously expected to give the time of day to three people who want to let you know that they just can’t stop thinking about other people’s genitals? Patently absurd. This petition should have been filed in the correct receptacle: the garbage.