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Transparent creator makes powerful Emmy speech: ‘We have a trans civil rights problem’
Transparent creator Jill Soloway won an Emmy Sunday (20 September) for outstanding direction of a comedy series and used the moment to call for transgender equality.
The series, about a college professor who comes out to her three adult children as a transgender female, stems from Soloway’s personal experience as the child of a transgender parent.
She spoke of her father, a transgender woman, and said: ‘Thank you moppa for coming out and coming to LA and coming her tonight. Something interesting about my moppa, 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.”‘
Soloway added: ‘We don’t have a trans tipping point yet, we have a trans civil rights problem.’
After her speech, the website crashed.
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