"Representative Sarah McBride (D-DE) often wonders if her Republican colleagues forget that she has parents. Would her fellow elected officials still ferociously and publicly demean her if they remembered that the two people who love her more than anything in the world had to hear the insults, too? It's easier for them to dehumanize her than to confront the real person behind the political pawn they have reduced her to, she told LGBTQ Nation."
"Rep. McBride knew running for Congress would mean inviting more discrimination into her life, but she could not have predicted how much. "I don't think I anticipated entering Congress not only in a Republican trifecta with Donald Trump as president, but after an election where hundreds of millions of dollars would have been specifically spent on trans issues, and every conceivable issue in some way by the Republicans would seem to be brought back to trans issues.""
McBride often wonders whether Republican colleagues remember that she has parents who hear insults aimed at her. Colleagues' misgendering, slurs and public demeanments allow easy dehumanization and avoidance in Capitol hallways. Running for Congress brought intensified discrimination that exceeded prior expectations. The post-election environment, a Republican trifecta with Donald Trump as president and heavy spending targeting trans issues, has amplified attacks and tethered many political debates back to transgender topics. Increased front-page transphobia has made it harder to shield her parents from harassment and has deepened personal and familial pain.
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