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Lawyering, liberty, lousy sports teams. עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי
Nov 23, 2018 7 tweets 4 min read
@RealYeyoZa @MeghanEMurphy In summer of 2011, I was a law clerk in a government agency of a VERY liberal city. A non-passing trans person came in and the folks at the agency did not know what to do. They did not know what transgender meant and did not know how they were supposed to act. That was /1 @RealYeyoZa @MeghanEMurphy seven years ago. I helped explain what I knew from my time in an LGBT clinic in terms of how to be respectful. At that time, the focus was on calling people what they wanted to be called, understanding what they believed, and treating them respectively. How did we get to a /2