Sarah McBride
Today's quote for Transgender Day of Visibility is from Sarah McBride
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Sarah McBride worked for the HRC, Equality Delaware, and in the Whitehouse, before becoming the first transgender state senator.
Recently, Sarah McBride was the target of aggressive misgendering by a colleague, Keith Self (R, TX) during a US House subcommittee meeting. After the first occurence, Bill Keating (D, MA) stood up for McBride, halting the session and demanding that Self treat her with respect, after which Self doubled down and repeated his misgendering introduction of McBride. When cornered and the demand was made that he introduce McBride respectfully, Self chose instead to end the session and leave.
Unfortunately, this is not an unusual occurrence in the legislature. McBride has been misgendered repeatedly on the floor. She has stated a commitment to pick her battles and not allow the politicization and demonization of her identity to distract from the work that they are doing. She has responded in a calm, collected manner at every opportunity.
Sarah McBride said it so well when she said:
“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.”
Expanding on that, we as a society have already overcome the idea that women are limited, based on their gender, to certain roles, and although prejudice still exists, women are not legally limited in what they can and cannot do. But, that seems to only be allowed when they are still identifying as the gender they were assigned at birth. Still fundamentally discrimination based on gender, the demonization and attempted erasure of transgender identities tries to push people back into those boxes based on their gender assigned at birth.
Transgender people challenge the limitations imposed on everyone in society. They say that you truly can be anyone you want to be, you can push the boundaries associated with your gender assigned at birth, and you can live your truth no matter if that truth fits into a category widely recognized or is wholly outside of the binary,
Join us, Sunday March 30th at 1pm, at Federal Plaza in Chicago to demand that transgender people be seen, heard, and respected. Join us to demand our rights be honored and upheld.
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