It’s the “civil rights issue of our time”

Vice President Joe Biden chatted with Linda Carragher Bourne, mom to Lorelei Erisis. Lorelei is Miss Trans New England and is part of the I AM Trans video project.

According to the White House pool report:

He singled one woman out who he thought had beautiful eyes. She said something inaudible to Vice President Biden, to which he responded it is the “civil rights issue of our time”

The woman, Linda Carragher Bourne of Sarasota said her daughter was Miss Trans New England and asked if the Vice President would help them.

“A lot of my friends are being killed, and they don’t have the civil rights yet. These guys are gonna make it happen,” she told the reporter.