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Obama Made History By Using This Word in the State of the Union

There were over 6,000 words in President Obama’s State of the Union address, but he made history Tuesday night when he used just one of them: transgender. In a section of the speech in which he noted that Americans “respect human dignity,” Obama included the word along with lesbians, gays and bisexuals: “That’s why we defend free speech, and advocate for political prisoners, and condemn the persecution of women, or religious minorities, or people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender.

 

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