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" There's no question that the best way to get people to care about an issue is to humanize it. "
Sarah McBride
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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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Doing
" 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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You
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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. "
Sarah McBride
Hate
Color
Fear
" Efforts to bar transgender people from restrooms are nothing more than an attempt to codify discrimination before our country advances any further on transgender equality. "
Sarah McBride
Equality
Discrimination
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" When gay, lesbian and bisexual individuals come out, their friends and families, for the most part, understand what it feels like to love and to lust. Cisgender people have more of a challenge when it comes to transgender identities. I discovered that analogy of homesickness in conversations with my parents, in trying to bridge that empathy divide. "
Sarah McBride
Empathy
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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. "
Sarah McBride
Courage
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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. "
Sarah McBride
Change
Discrimination
People
" 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. "
Sarah McBride
Great
Change
Family
" Change always seems impossible until it's inevitable. "
Sarah McBride
Always
Inevitable
Impossible
" Living authentically isn't an act of courage as much as an act of survival. "
Sarah McBride
Survival
Courage
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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. "
Sarah McBride
Down
Parents
Think
" 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. "
Sarah McBride
Marriage
People
Think
" My whiteness, economic privilege, able-bodied privilege, family support, and so many other factors shield me from some of the worst possible consequences - often fatal ones - that result from the toxic combination of misogyny, racism, and anti-trans sentiment. "
Sarah McBride
Result
Family
Me
" We can celebrate the speed at which LGBT equality has progressed, but we also have to acknowledge that it wasn't fast enough, because too many people didn't get to experience it. We can never be too impatient. "
Sarah McBride
Experience
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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. "
Sarah McBride
Discrimination
Country
People
" Every single day matters when it comes to building a world where every person can live their life to the fullest. "
Sarah McBride
World
Building
Day
" 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. "
Sarah McBride
Community
People
Me
" Trans justice calls on us to combat the blend of prejudices that demean the lives and diminish the autonomy of another person. "
Sarah McBride
Justice
Us
Autonomy
" 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. "
Sarah McBride
Donald Trump
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Team
" I now know that my dreams and my identity are only mutually exclusive if I don't try. "
Sarah McBride
Try
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Dreams
" This is how systems of oppression work: The violence, discrimination, and stigma I face as a woman compounds the violence, discrimination, and stigma I face as a trans person, and vice versa. "
Sarah McBride
Face
Work
Woman
" 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. "
Sarah McBride
Difficult
Important
You
" The harassment and the bullying that students face is a learned behavior. "
Sarah McBride
Bullying
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Behavior
" 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. "
Sarah McBride
Modern
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Group
" For me, having a gender identity that was different from my sex assigned at birth and that wasn't seen by society felt like a constant feeling of homesickness - that unwavering ache in the pit of my stomach. "
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Feeling
Identity
Gender
" 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. "
Sarah McBride
Opportunity
Moving
Laws
" Days after being sworn in as the nation's top law enforcement officer, Trump's attorney general, the virulently anti-LGBTQ Jeff Sessions, revoked lifesaving guidance promoting the protection and dignity of transgender students. "
Sarah McBride
Nation
Dignity
Law
" Like all women, my path to womanhood is unique. No two paths are the same. Each of us travel with different privileges, challenges, and perspectives - some limiting, others illuminating. "
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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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People
Gay
Gender