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struggle4progress

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Thu Feb 23, 2017, 03:17 AM Feb 2017

Jackie Evancho asks for a meeting on transgender rights

By John Wagner
February 22 at 8:51 PM

Teenage classical singer Jackie Evancho, one of the first performers to be enlisted for President Trump’s inaugural festivities, took to Twitter Wednesday night to express her dismay with the administration’s revocation of federal protections for transgender students and to request a meeting with the president.

In a pair of tweets, Evancho, who has a transgender sister, said she was “obviously disappointed” with the decision “to send the #transgender bathroom issue to the states to decide” ...


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/02/22/jackie-evancho-who-sang-the-national-anthem-at-trumps-inauguration-asks-for-a-meeting-on-transgender-rights/?utm_term=.be1a43e18752

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Jackie Evancho asks for a meeting on transgender rights (Original Post) struggle4progress Feb 2017 OP
She better wear a jockstrap to the meeting !! flying-skeleton Feb 2017 #1
I'm shocked...shocked! regnaD kciN Feb 2017 #2

regnaD kciN

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2. I'm shocked...shocked!
Thu Feb 23, 2017, 05:21 AM
Feb 2017

Someone who sold their soul for a spot at the Trump inaugural suddenly discovers that...Trump actually carries out his platform pledges? Gee, who could possibly have imagined that?


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