Sarah McBride Quotes

United States, Activist
August 9, 1990

Sarah McBride is an American transgender rights activist. She is currently the National Press Secretary of the Human Rights Campaign. McBride made national headlines when she came out as transgender to her college while serving as student body president at American University.

There's no question that the best way to get people to care about an issue is to humanize it.

Sarah McBride
- Care
- Issue
- Humanize
Being an American is an action; it's an ideal to strive for. It's being part of this constantly perfecting union that, with each generation, expands our scope and human understanding of 'We the people.'

Sarah McBride

My name is Sarah McBride, and I am a proud transgender American.

Sarah McBride
- Proud
- Name
- Transgender
Access to public facilities like bathrooms is important for transgender people. But the fight for transgender rights does not begin and end at the bathroom door.

Sarah McBride
Instead of moving backward, we should expand opportunity and protections by repealing hateful laws and passing comprehensive LGBT nondiscrimination laws at the local, state, and federal level.

Sarah McBride
- Laws
- Level
- Protections
Trump's campaign is not a collection of ignorant statements. It is a candidacy of hate and fear that poses serious risks to people of color, women, people with disabilities, immigrants, and LGBTQ people.

Sarah McBride
- People
- Fear
- Ignorant
Living authentically isn't an act of courage as much as an act of survival.

Sarah McBride
- Courage
- Living
- Survival
Efforts to bar transgender people from restrooms are nothing more than an attempt to codify discrimination before our country advances any further on transgender equality.

Sarah McBride

When the work you're doing every single day is so directly about who you are as an individual and who you are as a person, it can be both exhausting and empowering in different moments.

Sarah McBride
Change always seems impossible until it's inevitable.

Sarah McBride