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Transphobia In A Suit
The Anti-Trans Hate Machine: A Plot Against Equality
The Importance of Gut Wrenching Stories in a Lawsuit to Block the New Health Policy
Cecilia, Tanya and Jason start working on a lawsuit. They pull the case together in less than two weeks after the government announced the rule. But three of them agreed that Tanya and Cecilia's own personal gut wrenching stories were an essential part of the legal strategy to convince the judge to do the right thing.
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Every time I fight for something that I believe in, I'm high. I am speed bowling like if I just shot something into my veins. Activism became my drug. Every day, it's like I chase the same height that I use to chase with heroin. I chase it through activism.
Speaker 1
So when Jason called her to ask her to join the lawsuit to block the new health policy, she says, there was no hesitation. It
Speaker 2
was like, it's no way that I would not do this. I have to do this for myself and I have to do this for my community. We have to fight. It's fight never ends. But hey, it's an opportunity to get high to me. Who doesn't
Speaker 1
want to be high? Hey, more fights ahead mean more highs for Cecilia. So you're like, let's do
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it. Let's do it. Keep me high. Keep me high conservatives.
Speaker 1
So Cecilia, Tanya and Jason start working on a lawsuit and they move fast. They pull the case together in less than two weeks after the government announced the rule. But three of them agreed that Tanya and Cecilia's own personal gut wrenching stories were an essential part of the legal strategy to convince the judge to do the right thing. Despite the need to relive these experiences over and over, Tanya and Cecilia knew exactly what they had to do. Cecilia told about how not long after she moved to the US, she was having really bad stomach pain and needed to see a doctor right away. The problem is she didn't have many options. She was uninsured and undocumented at the time. But then she found a doctor that she could actually afford to go
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