It's not lost on me what my presence at the podium behind that lectern means. Being a first in many different ways, I'm an immigrant, I'm a queer Black woman, a person of color, and it is incredibly a heavy weight that I understand is important to carry with respect and understanding,
There are folks who came before me, who laid down the path for many of us to take and to be able to break glass ceilings and to be able to do what I'm able to do every day.
When you have a president at the State of the Union ... speaking directly to the LGBTQ+ community-the transgender community-saying, 'I have your backâ, that's pretty powerful.
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