Sarah McBride

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The Ezra Klein Show · Sarah McBride on Why the Left Lost on Trans Rights · 17 Jun 2025 podcast

And look, I don't believe that every person from an underrepresented or an unrepresented community needs to always bear the brunt and burden of public education, right?

I don't believe that every LGBTQ person has to be out and sharing their story and doing all of that hard work.

But for the folks who are willing to do it,

We need to let them.

And one of the problems we've had is that we've gone from it's not my job as an individual person who's just trying to make it through the day to educate everyone to no one from that community should educate.

And frankly, we should just stop having this conversation because the fact that we are having this conversation at all is hurtful and oppressive.

And maybe it is hurtful.

But

You can't foster social change if you don't have a conversation.

You can't change people if you exclude them.

And I will just say, you can't have absolutism on the left or the right without authoritarianism, right?

The fact that we have real disagreements, the fact that we have difficult conversations, the fact that we have painful conversations is not a bug of democracy.

It's a feature of democracy, right?

And yes, that is hard and difficult, but again, how can we expect that the process of overcoming marginalization is going to be fair?

And I think the discourse has taken this understandable critique of society and the way we operate and the burdens we place on marginalized people, and we've somehow said...

Well, the one place that we have control over whether we allow for that marginalization is in the strategies we use to overcome it.

And so we're not going to engage in that because it's sort of self-oppression.

And I think that is such a self-defeating and counterproductive approach.

What do you think it is?

I think it is the recognition that in a free society, we are going to live and think differently.

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