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Charlotte Clymer🏳️‍🌈
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Here are the declared Dem 2020 presidential candidates who have tweeted about the death of Muhlaysia Booker and the epidemic of anti-trans violence, particularly against Black trans women:

Buttigieg
Harris
O'Rourke
Warren
Here are the candidates who have not:

Bennet
Biden
Booker
Bullock
Castro
De Blasio
Delaney
Gabbard
Gillibrand
Gravel
Hickenlooper
Inslee
Klobuchar
Messam
Moulton
Sanders
Swalwell
Williamson
Yang
Every candidate is on record as supporting trans rights. Some of them have been stalwart champions on trans issues. But I still think it's important that in this epidemic of anti-trans violence, every presidential candidate is speaking out when it happens. This matters.
O'Rourke at 12:02pm ET on 5/20:

Mayor Buttigieg at 3:11pm ET on 5/20:

Sen. Warren at 3:47pm ET on 5/20:

Sen. Harris at 4:26pm ET on 5/20:

I appreciate @SenGillibrand not only posting this but being the only candidate to say the name of every trans person killed in 2019:
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Randomly thinking this morning of a very kind person at a cocktail party who insisted we had met because I talked to their boss on a popular news program.

"No, that wasn't me."

"No, that was you! We've had you on."

"Oh, I would have remembered talking to your boss."

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And this seriously went for a good two minutes. Their boss is the host of a very popular program, and I would know if I've been a guest on there, but y'all, they were so insistent, that at one point I actually thought to myself: "Shit, maybe I did appear on there?"
Eventually, they realized they were talking to the wrong trans woman and apologized profusely. And later sent a very sweet email saying the same. I thought they were quite kind and personable, just had a few too many drinks. We've all had a few too many. No worries.
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Charlotte Clymer🏳️‍🌈
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My heart is broken this morning. Last month, Muhlaysia Booker demonstrated more courage and personal conviction than I can imagine. This is a tragedy beyond words.

A Transgender Woman Who Was Attacked in Dallas Last Month Has Been Found Dead nyti.ms/2Vx8641
I just don't know what to say. This really hurts.
“This time, I can stand before you. Whereas in other scenarios, we are at a memorial.” -- Muhlaysia Booker

She said this just last month.
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