#transvoices: Mara Keisling
It is Transgender Awareness Week, It started Monday. It will culminate on the 20th with Transgender Day of Remembrance.
The National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) believes that awareness and understanding are critical steps in the journey to acceptance.
Since Mara Keisling founding NCTE in 2003, she has led organizational and coalition efforts that have won significant advances in transgender equality, including the inclusion of gender identity in the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, the first-ever Congressional hearing on transgender issues, and countless federal administrative and state-level wins.
As one of the nation’s leading voices for transgender equality, Mara is regularly quoted in national and local print media and has appeared on major television networks, including CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News. She was part of the first all-transgender television interview on Melissa Harris-Perry’s show in 2012.
A proud Pennsylvania native, Mara holds a B.A. from Pennsylvania State University and did her graduate work in American Government at Harvard University. Prior to founding NCTE, Mara worked for 25 years in social marketing and opinion research.
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Pretty amazing
When you think about it. The T was barely in the conversation for so long, the sad afterthought of the LGBT fight. And in the last 10-15 years they seem to be growing faster in awareness throughout society and acceptance faster than anyone else. Obviously not celebrating when we have so far to go, and there will be setbacks too. That the advances correspond with Keisling's efforts in DC, only a coincidence? I suspect not.
Love ya, mean it