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• ‟ I want to make sure that people understand that, behind this national conversation around transgender rights, there are real people who hurt when they're mocked, who hurt when they're discriminated against, and who just want to be treated with dignity and respect.

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• ‟ Whenever you tell a group of people that they can't use bathrooms, or they can't access spaces that other people use, that is dehumanizing. It is discriminatory, and it reinforces the stigma and the prejudices that the transgender community already faces.

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• ‟ Transgender people frequently face bias in court and are assigned unsupportive public defenders, factors which lead to more extreme sentences and longer incarcerations.

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• ‟ I think that someday we will live in a world where transgender people will be viewed as the multidimensional people that we are.

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• ‟ Discomfort isn't grounds for discrimination. We have a big country with a lot of different kinds of people in it.

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• ‟ There's no question that the best way to get people to care about an issue is to humanize it.

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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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• ‟ 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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• ‟ 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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• ‟ 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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• ‟ Too often, when transgender people die, family members or funeral homes will end up dressing a body of a transgender person in the garments of the gender that they were assigned at birth instead of their gender identity. They're often dead-named and misgendered.

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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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• ‟ LGBTQ people are still targeted by hate that lives in both laws and in hearts.

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• ‟ Being an American is an action; it's an ideal to strive for. It's being part of this constantly perfecting union that, with each generation, expands our scope and human understanding of 'We the people.'

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