So Joe Biden was leaving an Obama-Biden campaign office in Sarasota, Florida after making a surprise visit yesterday, when a woman "who he thought had beautiful eyes" caught his attention.
She said something ...at first inaudible to pool, to which VP responded was the "civil rights issue of our time".
Pool later asked the woman, Linda Carragher Bourne of Sarasota about the exchange. She said her daughter was Miss Trans New England and asked 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," she told the pool.
The current Miss Trans New England is Nicole Hamidi
Bourne expanded upon it on Facebook. According to Queerty, which tried to erase the transgender under the umbrella of LGBT,
THEN! As I was waving my arms like Kermit the Frog (WITH the Peace Sign, of course…smile…), he SAW ME! He said, TO ME (!!!) “Wow! Look at those EYES!!!”
He immediately came over and gave me a HUGE BEAR HUG (pics to come, on the Late News…haha!). THEN! I got to TELL him what I had to SAY! Yup. Y’all guessed it! I spoke (babbled? I pray not…) about Civil Rights for Trans People, about the hatred, the murders, the UTTER NECESSITY to protect Our Trans Citizens!
He actually had a conversation with me about “it all.” He declared his Support, his DEVOTION to Civil Rights for ALL Peoples, and specifically Transgender Folks! It was a miraculous (to me) and Magical Moment In Time. I felt ZERO Bullshite coming from him. ZERO!!! He’s in our Corner, Friends!!! And. He has Obama’s “ear!” YAYYYYYYY!!!!
If nothing else, I feel as though, today, I was “gifted” with the opportunity to SPEAK UP! For ALL OF US!!! happy gettin’ the word out dancin’ :)
Speaking to an LGBT crowd of supporters in August in Provincetown, MA Biden said
Many of you have advanced civil rights at great expense. If I had to use one adjective to describe this community, it’d be courage. You have summoned the courage to speak out, to come out. We owe you.