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Dems Pick Transgender Speaker For Convention

Amanda Prestigiacomo

This week in Philadelphia, a male-to-female transgender will speak at the Democratic National Convention. The Hill reports that Sarah McBride, the national press secretary for the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, will address DNC goers, making history as the first openly trans individual to speak at a major political party’s convention.

McBride was invited to address the DNC by the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus, which has previously endorsed presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

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