{"id":3600,"date":"2016-05-11T13:03:06","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T05:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/11\/the-line-in-loretta-lynchs-defense-of-transgender-rights-that-made-everyone-cry\/"},"modified":"2016-05-11T13:03:06","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T05:03:06","slug":"the-line-in-loretta-lynchs-defense-of-transgender-rights-that-made-everyone-cry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/11\/the-line-in-loretta-lynchs-defense-of-transgender-rights-that-made-everyone-cry\/","title":{"rendered":"The line in Loretta Lynch's defense of transgender rights that made everyone cry"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When\u00a0Attorney General Loretta Lynch delivered an impassioned defense of transgender equality at a press conference Monday, one line in particular stood out.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mara Keisling,\u00a0founding executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based National Center for Transgender Equality, says she began crying when she heard it, and noticed the same response from other transgender rights activists on social media.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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In Lynch’s written remarks<\/a>, the sentence was part of a 129-word paragraph addressed directly to the transgender community:\u00a0 Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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When\u00a0Attorney General Loretta Lynch delivered an impassioned defense of transgender equality at a press conference Monday, one line in particular stood out.\u00a0 Mara Keisling,\u00a0founding executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based National Center for Transgender Equality, says she began crying when … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1269,1471,749,2434,2807],"class_list":["post-3600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-lgbt","tag-lgbt-rights","tag-politics","tag-transgender","tag-transgender-rights"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}