Further reason for Derbyshire & Co. to despair.
You won’t find Henriette Cecile Beigh and Andrea Yoshiko Uehara on the new “Celebrations” page of The Oregonian, but someday you might find them in the history books. That’s because Rita and Andi are transgender trailblazers. Born 55 years ago as Henry Charles Beigh and Andrew Iwao Uehara, they are, perhaps, the only same-sex couple to become legally married in the state of Oregon, a feat accomplished during the brief time that Andrew had become Andi and Henry had not yet become Rita. They even have the certificate to prove it.
Of course, there’s also the dentist who has very good reasons for the state not to cut funding for dental care for the 400,000 poorest adult Oregonians, and the community activist (and black single mother!) who says, “That’s all great and wonderful, but the point I’m trying to make is, you work at a social-service program, but the only people of color are the janitors. You work with all black people, but yet you don’t have any people of color in your personal life. How serious are you about your fight to change things?” —So those National Review bigots pundits could take their pick, really.
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