NCTE Lobby Days: Where’s Waldo, HRC, or Barney Frank?
Last October Representative Barney Frank said: “It’s partly because some of the people who are now lately to this fight weren’t there helping us through the lobbying. “ and then said: I have been pleading with people in the gay and lesbian and bisexual and transgender communities to lobby for us. Instead, they want to strategize, many of them. Some, no. Some have done a very good job. But many of them weren’t there. Hearing those words, I assumed that the lobby day events would get extra special attention (especially to gaining access). But since the event I’ve heard from numerous lobbyists that their access was no different than in years past. If the education…
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How “Transgender identity and history” appears across the Collective corpus
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- The TERFs52
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- Healthcare and medicine197
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