The Boston City Council strongly reaffirmed its support for the local transgender community days after the governor’s appointment of a trans woman to the state Commission on the Status of Women drew blowback in conservative circles.

The Council voted unanimously Wednesday to establish a transgender and queer community advisory council within the Mayor’s Office of LGBTQIA2S+ and to approve a resolution recognizing Nov. 20 as a transgender day of remembrance in the city — in memory of those whose lives were lost to anti-transgender violence.

In attendance for the day’s Council meeting were Giselle Byrd, the trans woman whose appointment to the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women sparked controversy and death threats this week — and Kim Hester, who accepted a citation on behalf

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