Jill Soloway and Jeffrey Tambor of Amazon's Transparent earned Emmy awards last night...Solloway for Best Director for a Comedy and Tambor for Lead Actor in a Comedy.

Soloway's male parent, who she apparently calls Moppa (or Mapa...spelling uncertain) is a transgender woman.

Thank you Mapa for coming out and coming to L.A. And coming here tonight. And something interesting about my Mapa, Carrie: She could, tomorrow, go and try to find an apartment, and in 32 states it would be legal for the landlord to look her in the eye and say, 'We don't rent to trans people.

We don't have a trans tipping point yet. We have a trans civil rights problem, so go to transequality.org and vote to pass the trans equality bill.

--Soloway

That caused the website for the National Center for Transgender Equality to crash.

Thank you so much. I’m so, so honored. You know, I had a—well, this entirely ruins the nomination room let me be very clear about that. I had a teacher who used to say, you know, ‘When you act, you have to act as if your life depends on it.’ And now I’ve been given the opportunity to act because people’s lives depend on it.

I’d like to thank Jill Soloway for giving me the privilege and the responsibility of Maura Pfefferman from the Pacific Palisades. I would like to thank this gorgeous cast. Every time and everywhere you rest your eye, there is genius. I would like to thank my teachers: Rhys Ernst, Zackary Drucker, Jenny Boylan, Van Barnes. Thank you Leslie Siebert and Joannie Burstein for putting this in my hands. You said that Jill Soloway was going to change my life and, in fact, that happened. Thank you to my lovely wife, Kasia. The reason—I wouldn’t even be standing here. Hi, Liv. And thank you to Roy Price, Joe Lewis, and the brilliant publicity team at Amazon, my new BFFs. Did I thank Leslie Siebert? Because she really wanted it. Good.

And I'm going to wrap up by saying, not to repeat myself, but to specifically repeat myself: I’d like to dedicate my performance and this award to the transgender community. Thank you for your patience. Thank you for your courage. Thank you for your stories. Thank you for your inspiration. Thank you for letting us be part of the change. God bless.

--Jeffrey Tambor