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Transgender Heckler: Obama's Response 'Heartbreaking'
An activist who heckled President Obama and was ejected from a White House reception wrote in an op-ed published on Thursday that she finds the president’s actions on transgender immigrants disheartening.
Jennicet Gutiérrez wrote in the Washington Blade that her protest on Wednesday evening is justified, given Obama’s past inaction on helping transgender immigrants.
“Last night I spoke out to demand respect and acknowledgment of our gender expression and the release of the estimated 75 transgender immigrants in detention right now,” Gutiérrez wrote.
“It is heartbreaking to see how raising these issues were received by the president and by those in attendance,” she wrote in the article titled, “I interrupted Obama because we need to be heard.”
“I stood for what is right,” she added. “Instead of silencing our voices, President Obama can also stand and do the right thing for our immigrant LGBTQ community.”
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