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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. "

Sarah McBride

Fight

End

Important

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Discrimination

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" I remember, as a child, lying in my bed at night praying that I would wake up the next day and be a girl, to be my authentic self, and to just have my family be proud of me. I remember looking into the mirror struggling to say just two words, 'I'm transgender.' "

" 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. "

" 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

" When you know someone's story, it becomes much harder to hate them. "

" Donald Trump, Mike Pence, and Jeff Sessions are using their powers and offices to make life as difficult as possible for everyone from the transgender worker to the gay widower to the queer undocumented immigrant. These efforts are not about bathrooms or religious freedom; they're about driving LGBTQ people out of public life. "

" 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. "

Sarah McBride

Talking

Transgender

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

" We have to open hearts and change minds while at the same time pushing for laws that protect LGBTQ people from discrimination. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It was easier to forget, or be dismissive about, transgender issues when there weren't transgender staffers or interns walking the halls of the White House. "

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

Sarah McBride

Face

Bias

" During my sophomore year at American University, I was elected president of the student body. At the same time, I was struggling with my identity and whether or not to come out as transgender. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" When the boys and girls would line up separately in kindergarten, I'd find myself longing to be in the other line. "

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Myself

Line

" We certainly hope that Secretary DeVos will work on behalf of every student and ensure equal access to a safe and quality education for LGBTQ young people. "