When she gets up to go to the bathroom, an employee tells her she has to use the men’s bathroom.
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The spot shows Alaina Kupec, a transgender woman from North Carolina, trying to use a restroom while dining out with friends.
The ad will premiere nationally on TV next Thursday, July 21, during the Republican National Convention on Fox News Channel.
According to the groups who produced the ad, it will run once again on MSNBC during the Democratic national convention the following week.
Freedom for All Americans Education Fund, the Movement Advancement Project, the National Center for Transgender Equality and the Equality Ohio Education Fund made the ad with additional support from the Equality Federation Institute, the HRC Foundation, and the National Center for Lesbian Rights.
Although Trump appears to have embraced North Carolina Gov.
While the likely GOP nominee, Trump, has previously stated he believes HB2 should not have been passed, he has an abysmal record of supporting LGBTQ rights: He referred to the Supreme Court’s legalization of same-sex marriage as “shocking” and vowed to overturn it as president, should he win. The ad has already been released on YouTube. The minute-long ad dramatizes the predicament faced by many transgender people across the nation in the face of heated rhetoric in places like North Carolina and MS as they pass discriminatory laws aimed at curbing transgender civil rights.
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The ad comes amid legal fights over transgender rights that were stoked by a North Carolina law limiting protections for LGBT people. LGBT advocates have pointed to laws like HB 2 as contributing to transgender people’s avoidance of bathrooms for fear of harassment or violence, citing preliminary statistics gathered from the national 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey. “Eight percent have had medical problems like urinary or kidney infections from avoiding the restroom”.
