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Transphobia In A Suit
The Anti-Trans Hate Machine: A Plot Against Equality
The Impact of Roger Severino's Action on the Biden Administration
Roger Severino, Tanya and Cecilia were able to keep the rule at bay. But it's still being fought in court. "I think I stood up and jumped up in the middle of a Zoom," said Cecilia about her win. For Cecilia, the wind feels profound too.
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Speaker 1
By moving quickly and suing the government right away, he, Tanya, and Cecilia were able to keep the rule at bay. But it's still being fought in court. Roger Severino was so effective at using the bureaucracy to his ends that he's tied the Biden administration in knots, trying to unwind it all. That's why this is
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still a for federal judge. We needed a win. And I'm not so foolhardy to think that a preliminary injunction in a single case is like liberation or equality. It just didn't seem like good things could happen, you know, at that point. Getting a win like that helps. Seeing a repudiation of that kind of hate and bias is good for the soul.
Speaker 1
And so good in fact that he let Tanya know about it right away. I
Speaker 4
was in the middle of a Zoom and I think I stood up and jumped up in the middle of the Zoom. I said, yes. And I, you know, I hope nobody heard me. I hope I had my mic off. But I was in the middle of a Zoom meeting and I was just, I was ecstatic.
Speaker 1
How does it feel to potentially be making history with this case and with your life? I'm just wondering how that feels if you've ever taken time to think about what the impact of what you're doing through this case might be historically. I know that it came out of fear and panic and anger and wanting to respond. But have you had a chance to think about just the other ways in which it may be in some ways revolutionary?
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You know, I didn't think about that. Thank you for telling me. But I didn't really, I didn't really think about. I was making history. I was more focused on transgender people, bodily autonomy and the right to self-determined their own gender identity. And you know, I've been fighting so long. I don't really look at the, I didn't really look on it on that, that mezzo level. This is what I've been doing for many, many years. It's just a continuation of, you know, what I was already doing. And I didn't see it as on a national level. I feel great about it. I feel I need to do this. I need to stand up for the rights of the transgender children for trans folks. I need to keep up the fight because of the harm that it's doing to my community.
Speaker 1
For Cecilia, the wind feels profound too. What was that like for you and what went through your mind as this person who was almost thrown out of the country but had in a way helped it lived up to its highest ideals with what you did?
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