Evicted for Being LGBTQ: Why We Need the Equality Act

Queen Hatcher-Johnson was evicted for being transgender. Now, Queen is speaking out in support of the Equality Act, which would add LGBTQ protections to existing civil rights laws.

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Transcript provided by YouTube (unedited)

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hurt people hurt people heal people help
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people i’m healed so i’m helping people
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i’m speaking out for the equality act
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because i believe
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that voices they can change
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people’s perspective i have lived uh
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from new york down to florida i’ve never
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had
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sustainable housing it was couch surfing
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it was shelters
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i know what it is to sleep on a bench i
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know what it is
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to sleep in an abandoned house
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from my reality and from the people that
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i know in the black trans community
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that is our reality housing
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discrimination does not get the
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attention that it should
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and then you add being a trans woman
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then you add being black
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you just keep adding layers to
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discrimination
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so it’s been about a couple of years
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since i’ve been
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kicked out of my home in north carolina
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i had called the landlord to do some
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maintenance to the property that i was
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renting from him so it started with him
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asking me
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about the transgender flag and exactly
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what the meaning behind the flag
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was i thought that i was educating him
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about the trans experience i thought
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that
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i was creating an ally by talking to him
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i think it was maybe three or four days
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later
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a week at most he called and he told me
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he said well i just wanted to inform you
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that i will be selling the property that
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you’re currently living in
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and you need to evacuate the property
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within two weeks
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i felt dehumanized i felt worthless
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i felt the same way i felt when i came
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to know my authentic self and my family
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rejected me
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that feeling came back since coming to
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atlanta
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i have unpacked some of the trauma that
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i have brought along with me from north
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carolina
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and i have a family that i have created
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now that i’m a homeowner i don’t have to
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fear being put out my home
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based on you know me living my authentic
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life
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so i still have that flag as a banner of
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creating conversations tearing down
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stigma discrimination so we need laws
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and policies to protect people of trans
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experience they need to speak to people
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of trans experience
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i am going to run this race and finish
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get to the finish line and if i’m the
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only one there i’m going to go back
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and bring some more people we all going
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to be at the finish line and then we’re
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going to pass the baton for those to
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come behind us
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[Music]
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you

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