Sarah McBride
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567 appearances
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first heard Jun 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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You know, there are things that I did and said 5, 10, 15 years ago that I look back and regret because I think that they were too illiberal.
Because I think I bought into a culture online that didn't always bring out the best in me.
But I do think that those were exceptions.
And even when I was an advocate...
I was always perceived as one of the more mainstream respectability advocates.
I was always considered someone who was too willing to work across disagreement and engage in conversations that we shouldn't be having.
I was always considered someone who was too willing to work within the system.
And so I think I fundamentally always had the same perspective and fundamentally have always believed that we cannot eliminate grace from our politics and our change-making, and that's rooted in...
Watching my parents grow and change after I came out, like, I went into that experience knowing my parents were gonna, like, they are progressive people.
They embraced my older brother, who's gay, without skipping a beat.
But I knew when I shared that I was trans with them, it was going to be devastating, to use a word that my mother uses.
And I knew that if I responded by shutting down the conversation, by refusing to walk with them...
By refusing to give them grace and assume good intentions when they would inevitably say and do things that might be hurtful to me, I would stunt their capacity to take that walk with me.
And I saw us as a family move forward with a degree of grace toward each other, that we were all going to inevitably say and do things that we would come to regret, that might hurt a little bit.
But that if we assumed good intentions and walk forward, that my parents would go from saying, what are the chances that I have a gay son and a trans child from a place of pity to a place of awe in the diversity of our family and the blessings that have come with that diversity?
And that only came from grace.
And then I saw it working in Delaware, passing nondiscrimination protections.
I've seen it time and time again.
And so I have borne witness to change that once seemed so impossible to me as a kid that it was almost incomprehensible, not only become possible, but become a reality in large part because of grace in our politics.
And yes, because I was willing to
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