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	Podcast:		The Brian Lehrer Show
	Episode:		When The Personal Becomes Political
	Category:		News & Politics
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	Publish Date:		2018-03-07 10:33:14
	Description:		When you're the first openly transgender person to speak at a national political convention, the personal becomes political. Sarah McBride, national press secretary at the Human Rights Campaign, shares her story and her activism and talks about her memoir, Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality (Crown Archetype, 2018). McBride says she knew she was transgender for almost her entire life -- before she even knew what being transgender was. She remembers going to sleep as a child and hoping she'd wake up as herself, i.e. a girl. "For me, it felt like a constant feeling of homesickness." @SarahEMcBride says she knew she was transgender her entire life -- she remembers going to sleep as a child and hoping she'd wake up as herself (a girl). "For me, it felt like a constant feeling of homesickness." pic.twitter.com/77VoXtUqy0 — Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) March 7, 2018 @SarahEMcBride says when she first came out to her parents, they felt like they were losing their son. She worked to get her parents to say, what are the chances we have a gay son + a transgender child, not out of pity, but out of awe at the diversity of our family. — Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) March 7, 2018 @SarahEMcBride has advice for a counselor with a transgender child at her school: "Take your cues from that child...do what that child requests. Oftentimes, school is the safest place...it can be life-saving for that child." — Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) March 7, 2018
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