State Rep. Leigh Finke, who transitioned in 2017, said that “the hate has increased exponentially” since her honor.
discussion on Fox News’ “Outnumbered,”Finke, who transitioned in 2017, was named as one of the “heroines who make a positive impact in their communities every day.”The main criticism, however, was that she got the honor despite having only been elected in November, meaning she didn’t get it through “her merits,” as Harris Faulkner put it.
Despite only recently being elected — and never expecting to run for office — Finke “has been an activist for transgender and LGBTQ+ rights, as well as Black Lives Matter, almost her whole life,”That hit “a lot closer to home” after her transition, the paper said, saying “national and coordinated attacks against the rights of transgender people and others in her community motivated her to be the representation Minnesota was lacking.
In her new role, she mostly hears from “parents of trans children” because “gender-diverse families sometimes don’t understand exactly what it means for their trans child to be an adult,” she said.Trans people “just live our lives and win elections and do the same things everyone else does,” she said of having “a pretty optimistic future for the trans community.”
“There’s going to be pushback against that, but I think that we will be victorious, we will see a future in which trans people are living fully and hopefully without fear,” she said.
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