Representative Sarah McBride

It was sort of a house built on sand in some ways. I think that because of that, we perhaps as a community didn't do enough public education to build the foundation that the gay rights part of the movement had built when they got to 2010, 2012, 2014, with progress on the issue of marriage, where that public support was rooted in a knowledge foundation, an understanding of who gay people were.

And I don't think that that foundation existed or to this day exists for trans people.

And I don't think that that foundation existed or to this day exists for trans people.

And I don't think that that foundation existed or to this day exists for trans people.

Yeah, I mean, the torrent of hate that came in after that was really frightening and traumatizing for me. And after that experience...

Yeah, I mean, the torrent of hate that came in after that was really frightening and traumatizing for me. And after that experience...

Yeah, I mean, the torrent of hate that came in after that was really frightening and traumatizing for me. And after that experience...

I mean, I just had never experienced that level of hate. Now it's essentially an everyday occurrence. Really? I mean, online, it's pretty incessant.

I mean, I just had never experienced that level of hate. Now it's essentially an everyday occurrence. Really? I mean, online, it's pretty incessant.

I mean, I just had never experienced that level of hate. Now it's essentially an everyday occurrence. Really? I mean, online, it's pretty incessant.

I mean, I said the other week I live rent-free in some folks' heads, and it's... I mean, I will say stuff that have nothing to do with me, and literally just saying it will result in a torrent of anti...

I mean, I said the other week I live rent-free in some folks' heads, and it's... I mean, I will say stuff that have nothing to do with me, and literally just saying it will result in a torrent of anti...

I mean, I said the other week I live rent-free in some folks' heads, and it's... I mean, I will say stuff that have nothing to do with me, and literally just saying it will result in a torrent of anti...

trans commentary but like I mean that it doesn't bother me anymore because of that experience that I had then where I realized so I I got this hate including a lot of people telling me I should kill myself Yeah, what was the phrase? It's KYS. KYS, KYS, KYS. And I never would have expected that people telling me that I should do that would ever actually impact me.

trans commentary but like I mean that it doesn't bother me anymore because of that experience that I had then where I realized so I I got this hate including a lot of people telling me I should kill myself Yeah, what was the phrase? It's KYS. KYS, KYS, KYS. And I never would have expected that people telling me that I should do that would ever actually impact me.

trans commentary but like I mean that it doesn't bother me anymore because of that experience that I had then where I realized so I I got this hate including a lot of people telling me I should kill myself Yeah, what was the phrase? It's KYS. KYS, KYS, KYS. And I never would have expected that people telling me that I should do that would ever actually impact me.

But at a certain point, the volume and velocity of it became so much that I couldn't help but feel it. And I remember after this, I remember thinking, I don't know that I can do this, do this work. And I went on this sort of information adventure to understand the psychology and bullying of trolling, and I came across a This American Life episode that really just allowed things to click for me.

But at a certain point, the volume and velocity of it became so much that I couldn't help but feel it. And I remember after this, I remember thinking, I don't know that I can do this, do this work. And I went on this sort of information adventure to understand the psychology and bullying of trolling, and I came across a This American Life episode that really just allowed things to click for me.

But at a certain point, the volume and velocity of it became so much that I couldn't help but feel it. And I remember after this, I remember thinking, I don't know that I can do this, do this work. And I went on this sort of information adventure to understand the psychology and bullying of trolling, and I came across a This American Life episode that really just allowed things to click for me.

It was a Lindy West who wrote about her body and her weight a lot, and she would get trolled, and then she wrote about how much that trolling hurt her, and the troll reached out and apologized.