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1. 1. Out In The Mountains : News - Marriage Campaign Comes Home to Vermont

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   Published on: 6/13/2006   Last Visited: 6/13/2006

   Caitlin Daniel-McCarter, President of Free To Be GLBTQA remarked that while the discussion is framed as an LGBT struggle, transfolk have nothing to gain and are habitually excluded from the LGB civil rights movement.

2. 2. Out In The Mountains : News - Marriage Campaign Comes Home to Vermont

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   Published on: 1/1/2004   Last Visited: 1/29/2008

   Caitlin Daniel-McCarter, President of Free To Be GLBTQA remarked that while the discussion is framed as an LGBT struggle, transfolk have nothing to gain and are habitually excluded from the LGB civil rights movement.

3. 3. Out In The Mountains : News - Trans Conference Lays Foundation for Equality

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   Published on: 12/29/2003   Last Visited: 12/29/2003

   Ethan Fechter-Leggett (L) and Caitlin Daniel-McCarter (R)
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   "This year our focus has been on trans issues," said Free to Be President Caitlin Daniel-McCarter.
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   The President was "willing and able to work with us," said Daniel-McCarter. "In fact he seemed excited that we came to him to talk to him about the proposal." Daniel-McCarter added that Fogel would be attending the conference with his wife.
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   "We wanted a ‘big name' trans person in order to draw as many community members from beyond the university as possible," said Daniel-McCarter.
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   Daniel-McCarter cited recent murders and rapes of transgender people across the country and a "scary" interaction in her home neighborhood in Chicago as one motivation behind a conference to promote understanding. Daniel-McCarter (who identifies as a "straight queer") and Fechter-Leggett are dating, and the two had stopped in a convenience store to buy yogurt.
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   Daniel-McCarter suggested that people who are easily classifiable as either male or female are less likely to be harassed over gender issues than those who occupy some middle ground.
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   At least one "fully transitioned" female-to-male transgender student at UVM, Daniel-McCarter said, experiences harassment from students, especially in bathrooms, but also in classrooms and with professors. "This university rocks, but there's definitely a few things that could be better." The conference aims to clarify identity issues, look at the construction of gender, identify sources of prejudice, and encourage openness. "Among my lesbian friends, they think that identifying as trans is a way to defy queerness, to fall back into a heterosexual identity. And besides," said Daniel-McCarter, "no one who grew up with male privilege and benefits can ever be a woman to them, they say. Not to mention why anyone would want to be 'one of them.' "And in the straight world," she continued, "well, my sister is a lesbian, and my Dad understands that and is very supportive.
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   Above all else, Daniel-McCarter wrote in a response to emailed questions, "just this one day of exposure to the issues that transpeople face will be a milestone for our community.