; Whereas 40 percent of transgender people report having attempted suicide in their lifetime, nearly 9 times the national average; Whereas 54 percent of transgender people responding to a 2015 survey experienced some form of intimate partner violence, including acts involving coercive control and physical harm; Whereas LGBTQIA+ youth experience dating violence at rates significantly higher than their non-LGBTQIA+ peers; Whereas, on June 24, 2016, President Barack Obama designated the first national monument to LGBTQIA+ rights at the site of the Stonewall Uprising, cementing its significance in LGBTQIA+ history as well as the overall history of the United States; Whereas, on June 30, 2016, the Department of Defense announced an immediate policy change allowing transgender servicemembers to serve openly without fear of retribution or penalty; Whereas, on July 5, 2016, the National Congress of Parents and Teachers, known as the National PTA, adopted a resolution entitled Recognition of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer/Questioning (LGBTQ) Individuals as a Protected Class ; Whereas, on July 28, 2016, Sarah McBride, national press secretary for the Human Rights Campaign, spoke at the Democratic National Convention, making her the first transgender person to address a major party convention; Whereas, on November 8, 2016, Kate Brown of Oregon became the first openly bisexual person to win a gubernatorial election; Whereas, on January 30, 2017, the Boy Scouts of America announced that they would open membership to transgender boys; Whereas, on April 4, 2017, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held in Hively v. Ivy Tech Community College that lesbian, gay, and bisexual employees are protected from workplace discrimination under title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964