Former Vice President and Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden noted the importance of transgender rights and called conversion therapy “sick” at a virtual campaign fundraiser Wednesday (May 13).
The event was hosted via Zoom by former presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker and was attended by 115 people, according to the Advocate.
One such attendee brought up the recent death of Aimee Stephens, the transgender woman at the center of a Supreme Court case determining whether anti-transgender discrimination would be federally prohibited.
Biden replied saying he was due to meet with Stephens before she passed away. “I was supposed to call her,” he said. “I had her picture and her bio on my desk; I was supposed to call her.
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