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Q: And in answering that, what looks different? How do you recognize that?Ī: That’s something I try to ask other people questions about. So, a question that I always ask myself is, “Would my trans friends feel safe here?” The design of mobility systems can make us all feel like we are welcome and that we also have responsibilities to uphold in public to make everyone else feel welcome. If we design our mobility spaces to serve women, people with disabilities and people of color, we end up serving everyone. If we design our mobility system to serve cisgender young white men, we serve cisgender young white men. Q: In what ways can or does transit in general serve or strengthen the LGBTQ+ community?Ī: Transit is very gendered. It’s remarkable that even here in San Francisco there’s still so much work we need to do. So, equity work is not only about treating people equally, it’s about correcting for past injustice. It recognizes our history of not only not valuing certain types of people but also actually undermining their rights and opportunities to serve. Q: In what ways do you feel the equity work at our agency serves those who identify as LGBTQ+ colleagues?Ī: Our equity work at the SFMTA has both an internal focus and an external focus. We need to remember that, and we need to take the lessons of our fight for gay equality and understand our responsibility to join our brothers and sisters in fighting for transgender equality and racial equality. This was also a bunch of courageous, angry transgender people who felt so hopeless about not being respected and loved in society and so hated by the establishment, that they had nothing to lose and fought back against police brutality. We celebrate the Stonewall uprising, but we forget that years before that the Compton’s Cafeteria Riot happened right here in San Francisco. Q: What does the 50th anniversary of Pride mean to you?Ī: I think the 50th anniversary of Pride is interesting in the context of the George Floyd anti-police brutality protests that are happening in San Francisco. The questions and answers have been edited for length.
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Last week Director of Transportation Jeffrey Tumlin logged in with our communications team to share some of his background and perspective on the 50th anniversary of Pride. Our agency has participated as a sponsor and with a parade contingent in San Francisco’s world-renown Pride celebration for many years. This week we are profiling several agency leaders, including Director of Transportation Jeffrey Tumlin, on their thoughts about this month’s Pride celebrations and their experience with equity and transit in San Francisco. Jeffrey Tumlin addresses participants and attendees, including Mayor London Breed, at the Better Market Street opening day ceremony on Jan.