Loretta Lynch Quotes
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While the American people at that time generally were familiar with homosexual issues, few know much about transgender people who were generally quite discreet and had not been militant. They were politically and media wise, almost invisible. Hence the statement was very meaningful and appreciated coming from a high government official. North Carolina passed a state law making it illegal for any person to use a public bathroom reserved for a gender different from what appeared on their birth certificate, regardless of what the city, county or local community had been doing or wanted to do. Transgender men who dressed, looked, acted, and lived as men, under the law would have to use the women's toilet, which could in many situations would cause them to be attacked by others perceiving that man was attempting to use the women's rest rooms.
Statement to the LGBT Community when announcing that the Justice Department had filed suit against the State of North Carolina for passing a law that illegally discriminated against transgender people Quoted in Time, May 23, 2016
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Dyer was the 32nd and current mayor of Orlando, Florida, first elected in 2003, when he gave this interview to his Alma Mater magazine. Orlando had a few months earlier been the scene of the worst mass shooting in the history of the United States when one terrorist killer attacked a popular nightclub.
Loretta Elizabeth Lynch is an American lawyer who served as the 83rd attorney general of the United States from 2015 to 2017. She was appointed by President Barack Obama to succeed Eric Holder and previously served as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York under both Presidents Bill Clinton (1999–2001) and Obama (2010–2015). As a U.S. attorney, Lynch oversaw federal prosecutions in Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and Long Island.
