We Have Two Highly Visible Trans People...

...In jobs at the Democratic convention, one is making a speech on Thursday night and another trans person is making sure she doesn’t run over the allotted time.

Transgender woman serves as official timekeeper for Democratic convention
USA TODAY Network
By Joey Garrison
July 25, 2016

PHILADELPHIA – A Tennessean who recently became the state’s first transgender woman to be appointed to a local government board has been tapped to serve as the official timekeeper at the Democratic National Convention.

Marisa Richmond, a longtime Democratic activist from Nashville, said she believes the designation makes her the nation’s first transgender person to be a podium official at a major party convention.

It will give her a prime seat at Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Arena for the four nights of speeches, culminating with the expected nomination of Hillary Clinton for president.

“It’s a personal honor and a privilege to be up there on the stage,” Richmond, 57, said. “I’ll be just a few feet away from all of the speakers all four nights. It’s literally one of the best seats there.

“It shows that this is easily the most trans-friendly convention ever,” she said. “It shows that this party has really made progress in terms of inclusion and diversity.”

And the other trans person is Sarah McBride,

Meet the First Openly Transgender Speaker at a Party Convention
Time
By Katy Steinmetz
July 26, 2016

When Sarah McBride takes the stage in Philadelphia on Thursday night, she will have just three minutes to make her speech. But she will only need to say a word to make history.

When she does, the 25-year-old press secretary will become the first openly transgender person to address a major party convention. And if there is one thing she would like you to take away from her speech, it is the message that she is a fully realized person with feelings—not a duper, not a predator, not an abstract concept to be bandied about in America’s culture wars.

“People forget our humanity,” McBride told TIME from her hotel room on the first day of the 2016 Democratic National Convention. “Behind the dialogues and debates are real people that hurt when they are made fun of, that hurt when they are targeted for discrimination and that have the same dreams and aspirations as everyone else.”
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McBride, though she will be a new presence in America’s living rooms, is not new to politics or to offering herself up as a public face for the transgender community. The staffer for the LGBT rights group Human Rights Campaign grew up in Wilmington, Delaware, and was active in campaigns from an early age, rallying for the likes of late Delaware attorney general Beau Biden. Part of that was an effort to overcome her internal struggle about her gender identity, she says, but she found that “making a difference didn’t actually make me feel more complete.”

And this doesn’t even included trans delegates at the convention,

There Are More Transgender Delegates at the 2016 DNC Than Black Delegates at the RNC
Policy Mic
By Celeste Katz
July 25, 2016

PHILADELPHIA — The numbers tell the story.

There are more transgender delegates to the 2016 Democratic National Convention here in the City of Brotherly Love than there were African-American delegates to the Republican National Convention in Cleveland last week.

According to various tallies, about 27 or 28 transgender delegates, superdelegates and committee members will serve at the DNC, which gavels in Monday night.

Only 18 African-Americans served at the GOP gathering, a turnout that reportedly marked a historic low for the last century.

Yes, the numbers do tell a story.