Texas Bathrooms bill

Rep. Senfronia Thompson compares Texas's discrimination against transgender kids with her experience of segregation.

Transcript

00:00I remember those days. You remember? Bathrooms. White. Colored.

00:19I happen to have been a member of this society during a period of time in history where we had separate but equal.

00:30Bathrooms divided us then and it divides us now.

00:39I can tell you as an African American how deeply I felt discriminated against because of the fact of the color of my skin and of my ethnicity.

00:52Those of you probably don't have that feeling because you have not had the privilege of walking in my shoes.

01:02But I can tell you, ladies and gentlemen, I hope you never have to walk in those shoes.

01:09I can also tell you that separate restrooms for transgender kids are also based on fear and not fact.