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Freedman-Gurspan’s previous job was at the National Center for Transgender Equality, where she worked as a policy adviser for the Racial and Economic Justice Initiative. In that role, she also urged the government to release undocumented transgender immigrants who cannot be adequately protected from sexual violence in detention…
Freedman-Gurspan was raised by a single Jewish mother in Brookline, Massachussetts. Her mother, Marion Freedman-Gurspan, adopted her daughter from Honduras. Marion Freedman-Gurspan wrote in Transitions of the Heart, that her daughter began identifying herself as gay from the age of 12. Adding that it was only after Freedman-Gurspan moved to Norway in her junior year of college that she began dressing like a woman. Marion writes “I sent a son abroad for his junior year of college…by the time [I] visited Norway in May, [I] was visiting a daughter.” According to her Facebook page, Marion Freedman-Gurspan is a retired social worker who now spends her time as an advocate for the transgender community.
