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2014 Elizabeth Warren, campaign event,
"I talked about building a future for all our kids. A man in his 60s came over to me. He was thin, with the leathery skin of someone who had worked outside for many years. He wore a frayed Vietnam vet's cap. He didn't smile, his voice..."
"I talked about building a future for all our kids. A man in his 60s came over to me. He was thin, with the leathery skin of someone who had worked outside for many years. He wore a frayed Vietnam vet's cap. He didn't smile, his voice..."
"...was flat. I looked for clues--maybe a little hostile? I wasn't sure."
"Yeah, you talk about building a future," he said. "But what about transgender?"
"Now he looked full-on angry.
Wow. That seemed to fall out of the sky. I felt the instinctive need to crouch." E.Warren
"Yeah, you talk about building a future," he said. "But what about transgender?"
"Now he looked full-on angry.
Wow. That seemed to fall out of the sky. I felt the instinctive need to crouch." E.Warren
"I said just as flatly: "We build a future for all our children. And that means transgender children. ALL our children-no exceptions."
He held my gaze for a moment and then said: "Damn right."
He went on to explain that he had a grown son who was transgender"
-Elizabeth Warren
He held my gaze for a moment and then said: "Damn right."
He went on to explain that he had a grown son who was transgender"
-Elizabeth Warren
Father of trans child:
"In a million years you'll never know the special kind of hell he has gone though. I want somebody who fights and doesn't back off."
Elizabeth Warren:
"I relaxed. A future for all our kids, every one. THIS was a fight I was ready for."
"In a million years you'll never know the special kind of hell he has gone though. I want somebody who fights and doesn't back off."
Elizabeth Warren:
"I relaxed. A future for all our kids, every one. THIS was a fight I was ready for."
2012 Elizabeth Warren opposes the "Christian Coalition" survey definition of "one man one woman marriage."
2013 Elizabeth Warren co-sponsored Student Non-Discrimination Act (for LGBT students)
2015 Warren co sponsors the Respect for Marriage Act which would have redefined DOMA. (pro gay position). The bill never passed out of committee, but the Supreme Court in Windsor and Obergefell made the bill moot.
2017 Warren signs letter from 19 Senators to Pres Trump to "express serious concerns on removal of critical LGBT health/scientific info from HHS and LGBT population-based data reports from OMB websites.
These actions reveal a pattern of censorship that fosters discrimination."
These actions reveal a pattern of censorship that fosters discrimination."
2017 Elizabeth Warren dances down the street at Boston pride. realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/06/…
2015 Elizabeth Warren co-sponsors the Equality Act. And again in 2017.
2018 Elizabeth Warren co-sponsors Kamala Harris' bill, the Census Equality Act congress.gov/bill/115th-con…
