I grew up hearing, “Go Sarah!” I am one of the lucky ones. My parents love and support me. My high school teammates and school respected me and supported me; and believe it or not, for a few years, New Hampshire, the state I love, uplifted me when a few noisy anti-rights activists bullied me. One of my supporters was Sen. Jeb Bradley. In 2018, Sen. Bradley encouraged me to empower myself and others to speak up for a bipartisan bill he helped sponsor. HB 1319 added the words, “gender identity” to our “Law Against Discrimination” and afforded me and my peers the very rights the law outlined against discrimination.

So why last year and this session in our State Legislature is Sen. Jeb Bradley voting to discriminate against me and my peers? Why is Sen. Bradley taking away my rights as a human being and making my body political? Why has Jeb Bradley now become an activist using our government to bully citizens based on gender identity? My gender is not for Mr. Bradley to dictate and for the government to block. Other young trans girls should not be erased from our public places in school communities. Jeb Bradley and his fellow activists cannot govern my peers and me out of existence. I encourage you to reach out to Jeb, and let him know that we don’t support him voting to break the very laws he helped create.

Sarah Huckman

West Ossipee