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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A pistillate who dedicated her clip to transgender advocacy is giving backmost to the LGBTQ2+ community, contempt nary longer being with us.
Allison Murphy is described arsenic an ally, having worked tirelessly and passionately for the LGBTQ2+, peculiarly for the transgender community. Murphy did truthful successful grant of her daughter, Chloe Anne Lacey, who took her beingness successful 2020 aft struggling with her sex individuality for years.
“A bully state is lasting with idiosyncratic you know, but a large state is lasting for radical you don’t know,” said Development Director astatine Fresno State Dr. Peter Robertson.
Following the nonaccomplishment of her daughter, Murphy dedicated her beingness to ensuring a amended satellite for transgender and gender-expansive people. Fresno Reel Pride Film Festival, Trans-E-Motion, and assorted different events were among galore she participated successful and shared Lacey's story.
In 2018, Murphy included a proviso successful her property to found the Allison Murphy and Chloe Anne Lacey Scholarship Fund aft being diagnosed with Stage 4 terminal bosom cancer.
“[Murphy's] reasoning astir the livelihood of queer youth. She saw what was happening astatine Fresno State, and wanted to endorse that effort by giving of her clip and work, but besides financially,” said Fresno LGBTQ+ Liaison Robin McGehee.
In 2023, that program became a world acknowledgment to her enactment that connected her with Fresno State LGBTQ2+ advocates. That twelvemonth she became a founding funder of the archetypal LGBTQ2+ Studies Endowed Scholarship astatine Fresno State.
“What’s truly chill astir LGBTQ 2+ studies is that we person a blend of students who place successful that community, who privation to spot themselves successful the program due to the fact that there's conscionable not a batch of opportunities to larn astir their community,” said Fresno State Professor and Coordinator of the LGBTQ2+ Studies insignificant Dr. Katherine Fobear.
Unfortunately, connected Oct. 21, 2024, Murphy passed away.
“She’s dying the mode she lived, which is simply a beauteous thing,” said McGehee.
Through Murphy's endowed assistance fund, students pursuing a declared insignificant successful LGBTQ2+ studies volition beryllium aided arsenic they enactment to conscionable graduation requirements. LGBTQ2+ studies not lone let students of the assemblage to larn astir their past but besides supply an accidental for others to go amended allies.
“We besides person a immense cohort of students who instrumentality the minor, not due to the fact that they place arsenic a subordinate of that community, but they privation to amended service that community," said Fobear.
Anyone who would similar to lend to the Allison Murphy and Chloe Anne Lacey Scholarship Fund tin visit the Fresno State website.
