Lawmakers should break their silence about the escalating anti-transgender rhetoric and legislation in the US Capitol
Representative Nancy Mace is proudly embracing her George Wallace moment. It’s time for dissent.
When Vivian Malone and James Hood enrolled at the University of Alabama in 1963, Governor Wallace traveled to Tuscaloosa to stand defiantly in the doorway of the Foster Auditorium. In tailored suit and tie, the white southern governor, whom Dr Martin Luther King once called “perhaps the most dangerous racist in America today”, prevented the two Black students from attending class.
Jay Saper is an organizer of the bathroom sit-in in Congress led by Gender Liberation Movement
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