"I mean, look, you know, if you look into the history of what made it possible for people like me to have rights - like we do to get married - like, a lot of that was advocates and activists who were transgender in the '60s or '70s... who stuck up for everybody's rights."
"I get that it would be politically convenient, honestly, for people to pull up the ladder after them and leave out others, but that's not OK. People have to stick together. And that's not just across the LGBTQ community, it's like, anywhere somebody is getting beat up or having, literally or figuratively, because of who they are, I think everybody else has to stick up for them."
Pete Buttigieg urged cisgender gay and bisexual people to stand with transgender people who face widespread political attacks. He criticized removal of transgender references from the Stonewall National Monument website as terrible and emphasized transgender activists played a crucial role in early rights movements that enabled marriage equality. He warned against politically convenient exclusion of transgender people and insisted communities must stick together. He framed solidarity as a broader moral duty whenever anyone is targeted for who they are. Conversations also touched on AI, the New York mayoral race, military service, accusations about his sexuality, and closeted gay conservatives.
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