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" LGBTQ people are still targeted by hate that lives in both laws and in hearts. "
Sarah McBride
Both
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" While Donald Trump claimed during the campaign that he would be a 'friend' to the LGBTQ community, we knew it was likely one more 'alternative fact' spouted by the President and his team. "
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" It's OK to be talking to one another about what it means to be transgender. We don't have to shield everyone from the existence of people like me. "
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" I would take issue with the assertion that President Trump has reached out to a diverse group for his cabinet secretaries. In fact, his cabinet is one of the least diverse in modern history. "
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" When I came out, I wondered whether I had a future not just professionally but romantically. Would I be able to find someone who loved me? "
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" Everyone's journey to coming out as transgender is different. For me, I've know that I'm transgender my entire life. "
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" Since taking office, Donald Trump and Mike Pence have governed the exact same way they campaigned, which is with bigotry and with bluster, and that includes toward the LGBTQ community. "
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" While I don't think President Trump is going to round LGBTQ people up, I do think the concerns from the community about his vision are not only understandable but warranted. "
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" The first time I heard the word 'transgender' had been in a sitcom episode that mocked the potential for cisgender people to find people like me attractive. Every time someone expressed any interest in the gorgeous trans guest character - her identity still a secret to most of the main characters in the show - the laugh track would cue. "
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" When a person finally has the courage to say, 'This is who I am,' and society is not there to welcome them with open arms, it is so tragic. "
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" Homophobia, transphobia, and sexism, they're all rooted in the same prejudice: the belief that one perception at birth - the sex we are assigned - should dictate who we are, who we love, how we act, and what we do. "
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Belief
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" Put simply, barring transgender people from restrooms consistent with their gender identity doesn't help anyone, and continuing to allow transgender people to access those restrooms doesn't hurt anyone. "
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" We have to open hearts and change minds while at the same time pushing for laws that protect LGBTQ people from discrimination. "
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" The harassment and the bullying that students face is a learned behavior. "
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Behavior
" The Internet has been great for the LGBT community. I know many older transgender people who say, 'I didn't know there was a single person like me until I was 40.' I can't imagine growing up in my teenage years without access to that information. "
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" The reality is that Hillary Clinton has been a steadfast supporter of LGBT equality. She has evolved on the issue of LGBT equality, and I think we are a better movement when we give people space to grow and learn. We can't reduce it to a single issue like marriage equality. "
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" Trans issues are also environmental issues. They're also healthcare issues. They're also national security issues. "
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" I think, for me, with regard to my parents, my biggest fear was not that they would reject me but that I would disappoint them. That by coming out, I would simultaneously dash my own dreams and their dreams for me, and I was afraid of letting them down. "
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" The reason why access to facilities - and access to public spaces - is so important is because it's much more difficult to go to work, to go to school, to participate in the public marketplace if you can't access bathrooms that make sense for you, that match who you are. "
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" Access to public facilities like bathrooms is important for transgender people. But the fight for transgender rights does not begin and end at the bathroom door. "
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" I didn't come out for 21 years because I thought that everything I wanted to do with my life - have a family, get a great job, make a change in this world - that the moment I came out, that I would not be able to do any of those things. "
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" There is no one-size-fits-all narrative; everyone's path winds in different ways. "
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" Trump's campaign is not a collection of ignorant statements. It is a candidacy of hate and fear that poses serious risks to people of color, women, people with disabilities, immigrants, and LGBTQ people. "
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" When the work you're doing every single day is so directly about who you are as an individual and who you are as a person, it can be both exhausting and empowering in different moments. "
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" Every single day matters when it comes to building a world where every person can live their life to the fullest. "
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" For my entire life, I've wrestled with my gender identity. "
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" I've always been Sarah. My gender identity has always existed. I've always been a woman. Gay people aren't straight before they come out as gay, and transgender people are who they are before they come out and transition. "
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" Gorsuch showed his true colors to the LGBTQ community when, in one of his first dissenting opinions on the high court, he advocated limiting the reach of the landmark 2015 marriage equality ruling by denying certain parenting rights to same-sex couples. "
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" For some, the fear of coming out is so great, they can continue to live an inauthentic life. But at a certain point, the pain becomes too much to bear. For me, having one more day pass by where I wasn't living my true self seemed like such a wasted opportunity, such a wasted life. "
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" Instead of moving backward, we should expand opportunity and protections by repealing hateful laws and passing comprehensive LGBT nondiscrimination laws at the local, state, and federal level. "
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