Caban asks panel about discrimination and outreach; Bryony Price responds

Yeah, I just want to echo my gratitude to this panel as well.

I especially enjoyed working with the students of the clinic, and I'm very excited that you will soon be joining the legal community because we need more folks like you.

And I'm sure that you have learned through this process that the law is politics.

All the way down.

And, you know, we may have a federal government that is wielding the law in such a way to hurt people, but that also means that we can wield the law to help people.

And I think that this is a piece of legislation that does that.

And I just enjoyed our conversations.

And thank you for...

Explicitly putting on the record the amendments you're looking for.

I'm excited to incorporate them.

I know we spoke about them at our last meeting, waiting for exactly this part of the legislative process to have this hearing so that we had the opportunity to go in and make those amendments.

So looking forward to staying in touch and getting those done.

And I just want to extend the same question that I

mentioned to the last panel, just giving you an extra opportunity to talk about any other instances of

types of discrimination that we should be aware of and thinking about and, you know, thoughts on what CCHR should or could be doing in terms of outreach.

and education.

No pressure.

One thing I'd like to mention, I myself, I've been in the US.

This is my ninth year in the US, but I'm still pursuing permanent residency.

I was up for a renewal this year.

I've just kind of come back.

But I was reminded in this process how...

Difficult about the intersectionality of this kind of legislation and bill and how difficult and binary that system is and

how without proper guidance and without proper terminology that you end up having to

lie in certain aspects on certain forms um because you don't want to flag the system for discrepancy especially I myself I'm a public school educator

um there's a lot of like misinformation around our community around um LGBTQIA plus educators um and I think uh

a more comprehensive conversation and protections for those people is very important because also that's who are

young people, our children are like looking to for guidance oftentimes before they're even able to have discussions with their families, etc.

And I think that

It's very important.

important that the conversation becomes destigmatized and the protections are there to ensure that that is possible.