"Meet Raffi Freedman-Gurspan, a 28-year-old transgender woman from Honduras who was raised in Brookline by her adoptive parents.
She’s the White House’s newest staffer, according to NPR , and the first openly transgender person to ever hold a staff position. She’ll serve as an outreach and recruitment director in the White House Office of Presidential Personnel.
Freedman-Gurspan, who worked as a policy adviser for the National Center for Transgender Equality after her stint as the legislative director with Massachusetts Rep. Carl Sciortino’s office, has been living as a woman since her senior year at St. Olaf College." Full story here!
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