Words matter. These are the best Sarah McBride Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
The harassment and the bullying that students face is a learned behavior.
No one should be forced to not dream anymore.
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.
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.
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.
Discomfort isn’t grounds for discrimination. We have a big country with a lot of different kinds of people in it.
When the boys and girls would line up separately in kindergarten, I’d find myself longing to be in the other line.
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.
The Trump-Pence administration has truly become one of the most explicitly anti-LGBTQ administrations in history.
There is no one-size-fits-all narrative; everyone’s path winds in different ways.
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.
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.
There’s no question that the political is personal.
We have to open hearts and change minds while at the same time pushing for laws that protect LGBTQ people from discrimination.
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.
I now know that my dreams and my identity are only mutually exclusive if I don’t try.
Every single day matters when it comes to building a world where every person can live their life to the fullest.
There’s no question that the best way to get people to care about an issue is to humanize it.
Will we be a nation where there’s only one way to love, one way to look, one way to live? Or will we be a nation where everyone has the freedom to live openly and equally?
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.
Despite saying the letters ‘LGBTQ’ at the RNC, Donald Trump consistently endorsed anti-equality positions.
I grew up in an upper-income household, in an accepting environment, and with incredible educational opportunities.
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.
For some, the fear of coming out is so great, they can continue to live an inauthentic life. But at a certain point, the pain becomes too much to bear. For me, having one more day pass by where I wasn’t living my true self seemed like such a wasted opportunity, such a wasted life.
Living authentically isn’t an act of courage as much as an act of survival.
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.
When you know someone’s story, it becomes much harder to hate them.
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.
For my entire life, I’ve wrestled with my gender identity.
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.
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.
Transgender people, especially transgender women of color, face pervasive discrimination throughout life, including by those sworn to protect us.
Everyone’s journey to coming out as transgender is different. For me, I’ve know that I’m transgender my entire life.
Trans issues are also environmental issues. They’re also healthcare issues. They’re also national security issues.
