2 июля 2020 г. 17:32
Man Elected to Female Leadership Seat That was Created to Ensure Female Participation in Politics
A petition posted by women’s rights advocates requesting removal of a man recently elected as Female District Leader for New York City’s 37A district has been expunged from Care2 Petitions by website staff. Emilia Decaudin, a man who self-identifies as ‘non-binary’ gendered, won a Female District Leader seat in Queens with 52.56% of counted votes. The 20-year-old from Westchester County, New York is the youngest and first openly transgender-identifying member of The State Democratic Committee. Deirdre A. Feerick, his experienced female competitor who had received the endorsement of the Queens Democratic Party, took 46.97% of counted votes. Like many nations and territories, New York State once had a sex-parity rule to guarantee women a voice in politics. Suffragists demanding voting rights had been arrested during a 1917 march at the White House, and were subjected to clubbings, beatings and miscellaneous torture. This “Night of Torture” galvanized public support for women’s suffrage.