03 Nov 12
My Mom, Joe Biden and I all agree, Transgender Discrimination is the 'Civil Rights Issue of Our Time'
By Erisis
http://transprov.wordpress.com/2012/11/03/281/So, as many of you might know, my incredibly adorable and emotionally opinionated, old hippie Mom made quite a splash this week. She had the chance opportunity to meet Vice President Joe Biden, who was coming out of the Democratic Party Headquarters in Sarasota Florida when he spotted my Mom's big blue eyes and made a bee-line to her to give her a big old bear hug! It was just serendipity that my Mom was next door at her hairdressers when VP Biden was in town. She didn't even know the Dem Headquarters were in that building!
But when my Mom saw the Secret Service guys and found out who they were there to protect, she put on a fresh coat of lipstick and talked her way through the checkpoints. We're a lot alike that way. It's little coincidence that I became a genuine Pageant Queen (Miss Trans New England 2009), or that I've got a lot of opinions myself, that I am never afraid to say and say it LOUD! It's just how I was raised.
The further details of this encounter are easy to find. The last time I googled, "Biden + Transgender" the results were hovering around one and a half million, with over 600 'news' hits. Suffice it to say though that my Mom, when she had the opportunity to say a few words to the Vice President of The United States of America, spoke of her transgender daughter and the imperative need to help transgender people achieve full civil rights!
