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For the past four years, I’ve had the huge privilege — and huge responsibility – of playing Maura Pfefferman, a transgender woman, in a show that I know has had an enormous, positive impact on a community that has been too long dismissed and misunderstood, now I find myself accused of behavior that any civilized person would condemn unreservedly. – Jeffrey Tambor	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Thousands of brave transgender Americans love our country enough to risk their lives for it, fight for it, and even die for it, and Congress should honor them and let them serve. – Kirsten Gillibrand	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
This weekend two right-wing groups sought to hold peaceful rallies. Their leaders — Patriot Prayer’s Joey Gibson, a Japanese-American, andAmber Cummings, a transgender President Trump supporter — explicitly denounced racism. Amid fears of violence, both cancelled their events. Antifa showed up anyway, outnumbering and terrorizing any right-wingers or President Trump supporters who dared show their faces. Antifa views President Trump as fundamentally reactionary, as a necessary opposition to corrosive ideologies. But because your foe is a really bad guy does n’t mean you’re inherently a good one. Movements are defined not merely by what they oppose but by what they do. Antifa’s censorious criminality resembles the very political behavior it claims to fight. The mainstream left ought to denounce it as much as the right should reject white supremacists. – President Trump	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
The real intent of the bill is to keep young transgender athletes from participating in sports, we need to make sure they're free to participate just like everybody else. – Sylvia Garcia	Found on CNN 6 years ago
In the end, we believe this episode, accompanied by Zeke's own remarkable writing and speaking on the subject, has provided an unexpected but important dialogue about acceptance and treating transgender people with respect. i wanted the world to see how much I'd grown and I also thought by showing what happened, maybe it wouldn't happen to someone else and something good could come of it. – Zeke Smith	Found on CNN 7 years ago
Zeke Smith, and transgender people like him, are not deceiving anyone by being their authentic selves, and it is dangerous and unacceptable to out a transgender person, it is heartening, however, to see the strong support for Zeke from the other people in his tribe. Moments like this prove that when people from all walks of life get to know a transgender person, they accept us for who we are. – Nick Adams	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
People in my district are genuinely scared -- scared that they are going to lose their health care, scared that their mom or dad might be deported, we have transgender children who are scared now about who they are and questioning that. Democrats in general, now, it's time for us not only to present alternatives, but be unequivocal and unapologetic about who we are. If we don't do that now, when? This is a moment that will define us as a party and we need to fight. – Ricardo Lara	Found on CNN 7 years ago
I don't want to be an activist. But if you become a beauty queen you become a role model, there's a lot of visibility for our (transgender) community these days. But there also are a lot of people who will hate, so you have to stay strong. Our voices are being heard now more than before. It's just going to take a while. – Mimi Marks	Found on CNN 7 years ago
I have to say that while many have made this about a transgender bill, it's more about someone that will use this bill as an excuse to go into the most intimate places we find ourselves in. – Lois Kolkhorst	Found on CNN 7 years ago
But she said she knew it was more than that by the time he was 5 and she began reading about what it means to be transgender. – The Record newspaper	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
After the Pence announcement, I think the question is - is Trump really moderate on gay rights issues? It seems more likely his rhetoric has been a smoke screen, there's no substance behind it. By picking Pence, Trump is signaling his administration may not be any friendlier to the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) community. – Rachel Hoff	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
This sends a message that New York City supports the transgender community and understands the issue. – Councilman Daniel Dromm	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
There are certainly some transgender students for whom it matters a lot but if it's a gay man whose best friend is a lesbian and they decide they want to live together, this is an option. – Demere Woolway	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
It’s not whether you are gay or transgender or black or white or yellow or pink. To me it doesn’t matter, if you walk through my door I’ll be happy to fix you a plate of barbecue. – John Sanford	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Bathroom discrimination is a regular occurrence for the transgender community, so much so that many of us avoid even using public restrooms to begin with. – Alisha King	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
While other cities and states are legislating intolerance and taking away individuals ’ right to use bathrooms consistent with their gender identity, we are proudly standing with our transgender and gender non-confirming New Yorkers. – Mayor Bill de Blasio	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
What happened and what continues to happen is you have transgender kids in schools. And they get bullied. And they get ostracized. And it's tough for them, my best interpretation of what our laws and our obligations are is that we should try to accommodate these kids so that they are not in a vulnerable situation. – President Barack Obama	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
For transgender or gender non-conforming individuals, this rejection is based on a failure to accept a fundamental part of that individual’s identity - what they feel to be their core self, we are saddened by these findings, and believe they are a call to action for those who work with and care about the transgender community. – Sarit Golub	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Texas will sue to stop (President Barack) Obama's transgender directive to schools. – Republican Governor Greg Abbott	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
In a time when our state is facing an unprecedented economic crisis, our lawmakers should be focused on righting the ship rather than stigmatizing transgender youth. – Troy Stevenson	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
They created state-sponsored discrimination against transgender individuals. – Attorney General Loretta Lynch	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
We are standing united as San Franciscans to condemn North Carolina’s new discriminatory law that turns back the clock on protecting the rights of all Americans including lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals, effective immediately, I am directing City Departments under my authority to bar any publicly-funded City employee travel to the State of North Carolina that is not absolutely essential to public health and safety. – San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
So yeah, I'm transgender. And yeah, I've transitioned. – Lana Wachowski	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
One would hope that transgender people would support philosophies that are helpful and not harmful to trans people. – Mara Keisling	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

For the past four years, I’ve had the huge privilege — and huge responsibility – of playing Maura Pfefferman, a transgender woman, in a show that I know has had an enormous, positive impact on a community that has been too long dismissed and misunderstood, now I find myself accused of behavior that any civilized person would condemn unreservedly.

– Jeffrey Tambor

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Thousands of brave transgender Americans love our country enough to risk their lives for it, fight for it, and even die for it, and Congress should honor them and let them serve.

– Kirsten Gillibrand

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

This weekend two right-wing groups sought to hold peaceful rallies. Their leaders — Patriot Prayer’s Joey Gibson, a Japanese-American, andAmber Cummings, a transgender President Trump supporter — explicitly denounced racism. Amid fears of violence, both cancelled their events. Antifa showed up anyway, outnumbering and terrorizing any right-wingers or President Trump supporters who dared show their faces. Antifa views President Trump as fundamentally reactionary, as a necessary opposition to corrosive ideologies. But because your foe is a really bad guy does n’t mean you’re inherently a good one. Movements are defined not merely by what they oppose but by what they do. Antifa’s censorious criminality resembles the very political behavior it claims to fight. The mainstream left ought to denounce it as much as the right should reject white supremacists.

– President Trump

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The real intent of the bill is to keep young transgender athletes from participating in sports, we need to make sure they're free to participate just like everybody else.

– Sylvia Garcia

Found on CNN
6 years ago

In the end, we believe this episode, accompanied by Zeke's own remarkable writing and speaking on the subject, has provided an unexpected but important dialogue about acceptance and treating transgender people with respect. i wanted the world to see how much I'd grown and I also thought by showing what happened, maybe it wouldn't happen to someone else and something good could come of it.

– Zeke Smith

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Zeke Smith, and transgender people like him, are not deceiving anyone by being their authentic selves, and it is dangerous and unacceptable to out a transgender person, it is heartening, however, to see the strong support for Zeke from the other people in his tribe. Moments like this prove that when people from all walks of life get to know a transgender person, they accept us for who we are.

– Nick Adams

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

People in my district are genuinely scared -- scared that they are going to lose their health care, scared that their mom or dad might be deported, we have transgender children who are scared now about who they are and questioning that. Democrats in general, now, it's time for us not only to present alternatives, but be unequivocal and unapologetic about who we are. If we don't do that now, when? This is a moment that will define us as a party and we need to fight.

– Ricardo Lara

Found on CNN
7 years ago

I don't want to be an activist. But if you become a beauty queen you become a role model, there's a lot of visibility for our (transgender) community these days. But there also are a lot of people who will hate, so you have to stay strong. Our voices are being heard now more than before. It's just going to take a while.

– Mimi Marks

Found on CNN
7 years ago

I have to say that while many have made this about a transgender bill, it's more about someone that will use this bill as an excuse to go into the most intimate places we find ourselves in.

– Lois Kolkhorst

Found on CNN
7 years ago

But she said she knew it was more than that by the time he was 5 and she began reading about what it means to be transgender.

– The Record newspaper

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

After the Pence announcement, I think the question is - is Trump really moderate on gay rights issues? It seems more likely his rhetoric has been a smoke screen, there's no substance behind it. By picking Pence, Trump is signaling his administration may not be any friendlier to the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) community.

– Rachel Hoff

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

This sends a message that New York City supports the transgender community and understands the issue.

– Councilman Daniel Dromm

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

There are certainly some transgender students for whom it matters a lot but if it's a gay man whose best friend is a lesbian and they decide they want to live together, this is an option.

– Demere Woolway

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

It’s not whether you are gay or transgender or black or white or yellow or pink. To me it doesn’t matter, if you walk through my door I’ll be happy to fix you a plate of barbecue.

– John Sanford

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Bathroom discrimination is a regular occurrence for the transgender community, so much so that many of us avoid even using public restrooms to begin with.

– Alisha King

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

While other cities and states are legislating intolerance and taking away individuals ’ right to use bathrooms consistent with their gender identity, we are proudly standing with our transgender and gender non-confirming New Yorkers.

– Mayor Bill de Blasio

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

What happened and what continues to happen is you have transgender kids in schools. And they get bullied. And they get ostracized. And it's tough for them, my best interpretation of what our laws and our obligations are is that we should try to accommodate these kids so that they are not in a vulnerable situation.

– President Barack Obama

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

For transgender or gender non-conforming individuals, this rejection is based on a failure to accept a fundamental part of that individual’s identity - what they feel to be their core self, we are saddened by these findings, and believe they are a call to action for those who work with and care about the transgender community.

– Sarit Golub

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Texas will sue to stop (President Barack) Obama's transgender directive to schools.

– Republican Governor Greg Abbott

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

In a time when our state is facing an unprecedented economic crisis, our lawmakers should be focused on righting the ship rather than stigmatizing transgender youth.

– Troy Stevenson

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

They created state-sponsored discrimination against transgender individuals.

– Attorney General Loretta Lynch

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

We are standing united as San Franciscans to condemn North Carolina’s new discriminatory law that turns back the clock on protecting the rights of all Americans including lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals, effective immediately, I am directing City Departments under my authority to bar any publicly-funded City employee travel to the State of North Carolina that is not absolutely essential to public health and safety.

– San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

So yeah, I'm transgender. And yeah, I've transitioned.

– Lana Wachowski

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

One would hope that transgender people would support philosophies that are helpful and not harmful to trans people.

– Mara Keisling

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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