Congresswoman gives emotional House speech on her gender-nonconforming child

Pramila Jayapal celebrated her child’s ‘newfound freedom’ and urged legislators to enact protections for LGBTQ people

The US congresswoman Pramila Jayapal gave an emotional speech about her gender-nonconforming child while advocating for LGBTQ civil rights legislation, saying her child had discovered “newfound freedom”.

Jayapal, a representative from Washington state, choked up on Tuesday as she talked about the impact of her child embracing their gender identity: “I didn’t intend to say this today, but my beautiful now 22-year-old child told me last year that they were gender non-conforming, and over the last year, I have come to understand from a deeply personal mother’s perspective … their newfound freedom … to rid themselves of some conformist stereotype of who they are, to be able to express who they are at their real core.”

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