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A Black Transgender Woman’s Testimony Helped Ratify the 14th Amendment. Then Conservatives Began Attacking Her Identity

By Chelsea Bailey, CNN (CNN) — On a Friday in June, Frances Thompson swore an oath before a congressional committee and began to testify about what she’d experienced during a race riot in Memphis one month earlier. She told the committee how seven White men, including two police officers, forced their way into her home and […]

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