Donald Trump's Inauguration Singer Speaks Out Against Transgender Bathroom Bills

[highplainsdem]

Source: Huffington Post

Jackie Evancho has agreed to sing at President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration ― but that doesn’t mean she has to agree with his party’s anti-LGBTQ platform.

Evancho, who rose to fame on NBC’s “America’s Got Talent,” is the only solo act signed on to perform at the Jan. 20 event so far. And while the 16-year-old country singer is facing harsh criticism for her decision to perform, she’s helping fight another battle.

Jackie’s sister Juliet came out as transgender in 2015 and is one of three transgender students suing a Pennsylvania school district over their right to use the bathrooms that best correspond with their gender identity.

“For me it’s not political,” Jackie said about trans rights in an interview with The New York Times published Wednesday. “It’s just accepting people for who they are.”

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[Xipe Totec]

1. She's not a country singer - Classical crossover. nt

[Tikki]

2. Hopefully she will speak out against any stupid bathroom bill before she starts singing

at trump's clown show.

The young can be brave beyond their years.


Tikki

[Cracklin Charlie]

3. A 16 year old is the only performer?

That's pathetic.

Who voted for this guy? I mean, really? Did anyone really vote for him?

[NYC Liberal]

4. The minority did.

The only upside to this election is knowing that even though far too many people voted for him, they are in the minority. He won only because of a quirk of an archane electoral system; our country as a whole rejected him.

What I can't fathom, though, is that his approval rating is at 37% two months after the election in which he got 46% of the vote. I want to know what exactly it was in the last 2 months that was finally the last straw for a full 10% of his supporters. Bragging about sexual assault wasn't enough? The Russia ties were known well before the election. He said repeatedly that he would repeal the ACA. So what was it?

[Lucky Luciano]

5. Hillary and her "scandalous " emails are out of the picture.

His crappiness is the main news now. Some of those in the gap between approval and votes for the fuhrer may have hated Hillary more.