Jill Soloway: We don't have a trans tipping point yet, we have a trans civil rights problem
Submitted by Robyn on Mon, 09/21/2015 - 1:43pmJill 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.