'To Fuel The Hell-Fire Flames Of Bigotry' (blog/comments)

[Natasha]

'To Fuel The Hell-Fire Flames Of Bigotry'

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6/20/2008

"One of those people is the dean of the Texas Legislature, Rep. Senfronia Thompson. I met her during the 1999 session when a group of us during our TGAIN Lobby Days mightily tried to get transgender people put back into the James Byrd Hate Crimes Bill we'd been cut out by our nouveau Mattachine 'frenemies' in the LGRL (now Equality Texas) before we arrived in Austin."

[NicholeW.]

What a fantastic speech. Truth in a small package.

Nichole

[tekla]

I'm kind of shocked that people in Texas elect anyone.  I thought they got it by land-grant / genetic endowment.