Frankie Gonzales-Wolfe, chief of staff to Bexar County Commissioner Rebeca Clay-Flores, hoped to be the first openly trans person elected in Texas.
to become the first openly transgender person elected in Texas, has layers of meaning for its subject.“There is no manual for trans people for how to run for office,” said Gonzales-Wolfe, who had been involved behind the scenes in politics for decades before throwing running for the District 8 seat on the San Antonio City Council. “I learned that firsthand. It’s not the same.
“He said he was willing to give me the support if I was willing, when I go to the dais, to leave me being transgender at the door,” she said. “In my head, I was like, would you ask a cisgender woman that? 'Don’t be a woman when you get to the dais? ' “In Texas, with the anti-trans legislation that is being proposed and passed over the last 10 years, that sort of backdrop has brought some of the issues that we talk about in the film more resonance and more timeliness,” said Whitehouse, a former Express-News photo intern. “When I started working on the film I could have never really pictured that.”
“Just a few framing statistics: There are more than 500,000 elected officials in the United States. There are fewer than 100 transgender elected officials in the United States,” he said. “So transgender people have largely been shut out of the legislative process. And I think that’s part of the conversation we’re trying to have.”
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