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Aug 06, 2007
Quickie Link: GLBT Rights Activist Pulls Back on the "T"
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By vanrozenheim
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(USA) - Robin Bodiford, a Gay rights activist finds herself in the most unlikeliest of roles. As a small but strident band of activists lobbies to add legal protections for transgender people to the county ordinance, Bodiford is pulling back. ''We've always proceeded carefully and slowly to make sure that when we fight for our rights, we keep those rights,'' Giorgio said. "It makes little sense to secure transgender protections only to watch them get repealed six months later." At the meeting, about 10 people who favor the transgender amendment filed into the back of the room and tried to take over the microphone. "How dare you deny me my rights?" demanded Tiffany Arieagus, an AIDS counselor well known in the local drag queen circuit. "What about me?" Bodiford was shaken. ''I'm not here to be your enemy,'' she said.
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