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Sarah McBride
American
Activist
Born:
Aug 9
,
1990
Community
Equality
Life
Me
People
Transgender
Related authors:
Angela Davis
Cesar Chavez
Gloria Steinem
Harriet Tubman
Malcolm X
Noam Chomsky
Sojourner Truth
Susan B. Anthony
In my view, the best of humanity is in our exercise of empathy and compassion. It's when we challenge ourselves to walk in the shoes of someone whose pain or plight might seem so different than yours that it's almost incomprehensible.
Sarah McBride
Best
Humanity
Walk
Challenge
Compassion
Shoes
Pain
Our
Plight
Ourselves
Seem
Someone
Empathy
Almost
Exercise
Than
Different
Might
View
Yours
Whose
Incomprehensible
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.
Sarah McBride
Conversation
Respect
Rights
Dignity
Hurt
People
National
Transgender
Make
Sure
Around
Understand
Real
Discriminated
Mocked
Real People
Behind
Just
Want
Against
Who
Treated
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.
Sarah McBride
Life
Freedom
Gay
People
Transgender
Difficult
Everyone
Immigrant
Out
Possible
Religious
Religious Freedom
About
Driving
Powers
Make
Queer
Trump
Undocumented
Efforts
Donald
Offices
Donald Trump
Public
Worker
Mike
Public Life
Jeff
Using
I think that someday we will live in a world where transgender people will be viewed as the multidimensional people that we are.
Sarah McBride
People
World
Will
Transgender
Live
Think
Someday
Where
Viewed
Discomfort isn't grounds for discrimination. We have a big country with a lot of different kinds of people in it.
Sarah McBride
People
Country
Big
Different Kinds
Kinds
Discomfort
Lot
Discrimination
Different
Grounds
My name is Sarah McBride, and I am a proud transgender American.
Sarah McBride
Transgender
Name
Proud
Am
American
Sarah
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
People
Face
Transgender
Extreme
More
Factors
Lead
Longer
Bias
Court
Frequently
Which
Public
Sentences
Assigned
Defenders
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.
Sarah McBride
Time
Year
Transgender
President
Out
Struggling
Student
Student Body
Come
Sophomore
Sophomore Year
Identity
American
Same
Same Time
Whether
Elected
Body
University
When the boys and girls would line up separately in kindergarten, I'd find myself longing to be in the other line.
Sarah McBride
Myself
Girl
Longing
Other
Would
Kindergarten
Find
Boy
Boys And Girls
Line
Up
Separately
My gratitude is great to my family and friends for accepting me as the person who they now know me to be and for letting me show them the possibilities of a life well lived.
Sarah McBride
Life
Great
Family
Me
Gratitude
Possibilities
Know
Well
Accepting
Friends
Family And Friends
Person
Them
Show
Who
Lived
Now
Letting
Change always seems impossible until it's inevitable.
Sarah McBride
Change
Impossible
Inevitable
Seems
Until
Always
If I only care about equality for transgender people, then I am leaving so many people behind - if I'm not at the same time seeking to end discrimination against people of color, seeking to end discrimination against women, seeking to ensure that people of every religious background have an equal opportunity.
Sarah McBride
Time
Women
People
Equality
Opportunity
Care
Transgender
Every
Background
Ensure
Religious
Seeking
About
Only
Color
Equal
Equal Opportunity
Am
Leaving
End
Discrimination
Same
Behind
So Many People
Same Time
Against
Then
Many
Everyone's journey to coming out as transgender is different. For me, I've know that I'm transgender my entire life.
Sarah McBride
Life
Journey
Me
Transgender
Everyone
Out
Entire
Entire Life
Know
Coming
Different
Every single day matters when it comes to building a world where every person can live their life to the fullest.
Sarah McBride
Life
Day
World
Single
Building
Matters
Live
Every
Single Day
Person
Where
Fullest
Every Single Day
No one should be forced to not dream anymore.
Sarah McBride
Dream
No-One
Forced
Anymore
Should
When you know someone's story, it becomes much harder to hate them.
Sarah McBride
You
Hate
Someone
Know
Becomes
Story
Them
Much
Harder
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
History
Group
President
President Trump
Secretaries
Out
Would
Diverse
Fact
Take
Cabinet
Reached
Least
Issue
His
Trump
Modern
Modern History
In Fact
Assertion
Despite saying the letters 'LGBTQ' at the RNC, Donald Trump consistently endorsed anti-equality positions.
Sarah McBride
Saying
Positions
Despite
Consistently
Trump
Donald
Donald Trump
Endorsed
Letters
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.
Sarah McBride
People
Vision
Community
Think
President
President Trump
About
Only
Concerns
Understandable
His
Trump
Up
Going
While
Round
Trump's appointed extremist judges to the federal bench, including U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, whose decisions demonstrate a judicial philosophy far more concerned with the rights of corporations than marginalized Americans.
Sarah McBride
Justice
Rights
Bench
Philosophy
Corporations
Extremist
Neil
More
Federal
Supreme
Concerned
Supreme Court
Supreme Court Justice
Court
Judges
Judicial
Demonstrate
Trump
Than
American
Decisions
Far
Including
Whose
Marginalized
Appointed
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.
Sarah McBride
Parenting
Rights
Marriage
Equality
First
Community
Ruling
Marriage Equality
High
Colors
He
True
Reach
Couples
Court
Opinions
Limiting
His
Denying
Same-Sex
Landmark
Certain
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
Community
President
Claimed
Would
Would-Be
More
Fact
He
Knew
Likely
Alternative
His
Trump
Campaign
Friend
Donald
Donald Trump
While
Team
For my entire life, I've wrestled with my gender identity.
Sarah McBride
Life
Gender
Entire
Entire Life
Identity
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.
Sarah McBride
Love
Sex
Perception
Birth
Sexism
How
Dictate
Same
Rooted
Prejudice
Should
Act
Who
Belief
Assigned
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
Work
Woman
Oppression
Face
Vice Versa
Systems
Compounds
How
Stigma
Versa
Discrimination
Person
Vice
Violence
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
Diminish
Combat
Blend
Another
Calls
Person
Autonomy
Us
Prejudices
Lives
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