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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJoe Biden says LGBT issues, Transgender discrimination the "civil rights issue of our time"
WASHINGTON -- Vice President Joe Biden said transgender discrimination is "the civil rights issue of our time" during a visit to a Florida field office on Tuesday, according to pool reports.
Biden was meeting with volunteers at an Obama for America office in Sarasota, Fla., when he singled out one woman "who he thought had beautiful eyes," reads the pool report. The woman said something to Biden that was inaudible to the pool reporter, but Biden responded to her by saying it was the "civil rights issue of our time."
The woman, Linda Carragher Bourne of Sarasota, later said her daughter was Miss Trans New England and that she had asked Biden if he would help them.
"A lot of my friends are being killed, and they don't have the civil rights yet. These guys are gonna make it happen," Bourne told the reporter.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/30/joe-biden-transgender-rights_n_2047275.html
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Joe Biden says LGBT issues, Transgender discrimination the "civil rights issue of our time" (Original Post)
ashtonelijah
Oct 2012
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He's a smart man. I am glad he is our VP and we will have 4 more years of him.
Behind the Aegis
Nov 2012
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Kurovski
(34,655 posts)1. Kick
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)2. The Drug War on the other hand is fucking awesome
But of course that's not a civil rights question because you have no right to control what you do with your own body.
Kurovski
(34,655 posts)3. Yep. Bringin' the love.
it's amazing to hear a VP speak like this about a group of Americans who have generally, and across all strata been considered a joke, freakish, and often shit upon and scorned with very few to rise in speaking in their defense.
Joe Biden, the VP of the United States of America is, as they say "the real deal".
Behind the Aegis
(54,007 posts)4. He's a smart man. I am glad he is our VP and we will have 4 more years of him.