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August 19, 2015

White House Hires First Transgender Staffer 
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The White House has hired a transgender woman of color to serve as an
outreach and recruitment director, marking what officials are calling
the first time the White House has hired an openly transgender staffer.
Raffi Freedman-Gurspan is a former policy adviser on racial and economic
justice for the National Center for Transgender Equality. She has
advocated for transgender migrants to be released from immigrant
detention centers and for the federal government to do more to protect
transgender women from violence. At least 17 transgender women have been
murdered so far this year.

 

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