04/03/2023- Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey- Updates on approved plans to reform policing Trans Day of Visibility Proclamation with Council President Jenkins

<p>Settlement agreement between MDHR and the City of Minneapolis  Minneapolis City Council unanimously approves plan to reform policing  Trans Day of Visibility Proclamation with Council President Jenkins<br> Plans to transition empty office space downtown into housing units Minneapolis Mayor Frey<br>backs converting office towers into housing - Axios Twin Cities<br> <br>MINNEAPOLIS - Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and City Council President Andrea Jenkins have<br>proclaimed today, March 31, 2023, as International Transgender Day of Visibility in the City of<br>Minneapolis. The International Transgender Day of Visibility holiday was founded in 2009 in response to<br>the lack of holidays celebrating transgender people’s successes and accomplishments. <br> <br>Minneapolis was the first American city to bar gender-identity based-discrimination through<br>amendments to the Civil Rights Ordinance in 1975. Since, Minneapolis has continued to address and<br>prioritize transgender equity and awareness, specifically through our Transgender Issues Work Group,<br>which was created in 2014, and the Transgender Equity Council, created in 2017. Minneapolis is also the<br>first City to have two black transgender Council members and the first openly transgender City Council<br>President.</p>