Thursday, July 28, 2016

Why It’s Significant That Millions Will See This Transgender Advocacy Ad Tonight

On Thursday night, Donald Trump will accept the Republican Party’s nomination for President. The millions who watch this happen on Fox News will also see this ad: The woman in the ad, Alaina Kupec, is not an actress, but an actual transgender woman who lives in North Carolina, where HB2 prohibits her from using the women’s restroom in public buildings. Kupec hopes the ad will help people conceptualize who trans women actually are. “The fictional ‘man in the dress’ is just that,” she told BuzzFeed. “It’s a political boogie man used to further a political agenda at the expense of a very fragile community.”....
http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2016/07/21/3800608/transgender-ad-fox-news-republican-convention/



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