LGBTQ+ advocacy group Alliance For Full Acceptance (AFFA) recently launched a new publicity campaign in support of the transgender community within South Carolina regarding anti-transgender legislation passed by the S.C. legislature in early May.
The message, “While We Breathe, We Fight: Compassionate Americans stand with our trans community” is displayed on 10 billboards throughout the state as a direct response to legislation that would prevent gender-affirming healthcare access to trans youth and adults.
These billboards are meant to exemplify the support and compassion South Carolinians have for the transgender community as well as help fight to make their voices heard, according to an AFFA press release.
“As an organization dedicated to advocating for the rights and acceptance of the LGBTQ+ community, we refuse to stand idly by while our trans community faces discrimination and attacks on their fundamental rights,” AFFA Executive Director Chase Glenn said in the release. “Our campaign sends a clear message: We stand with our trans community, and we will continue to fight alongside them until every South Carolinian can live free from discrimination and fear”
AFFA urges all residents of South Carolina to join them in the fight to ensure transgender people are protected from what they call discriminatory legislation.
Billboard locations in the Charleston area:
- Interstate 26 at Ashley Phosphate Road
- U.S. Highway 78 at Fernwood Drive
- Rivers Avenue at Ashley Phosphate Road
- Main Road at U.S. Highway 17
- Dorchester Road at State Road 165
Elsewhere in South Carolina:
- Columbia: Garners Ferry west of Woodlands Park
- Columbia: Interstate 26 south of U.S. Highway 378
- Myrtle Beach: U.S. Highway 17 at 20th Avenue
- Greenville: East North Street east of Academy Street
- Spartanburg: U.S. Highway 296 east of South Blackstock Road
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