Musician and philanthropist Sir Elton John says that members of the transgender community are the most courageous people in the world and his personal hero. For a time, 100 interviews discussion, John and his husband David Furnish director, spoke with journalist Katie Couric what it meant for them such prominent symbols of the LGBTQ movement. be previously killed in June than the protection for transgender Trump administration reversed in the US health care system, says John, who during – during two blacks trans women – Riah Milton in Ohio and Dominique “Rem’Mie” Fell in Pennsylvania, the youngest of the Supreme Court decided that federal law protects gay and transgender employees from discrimination in the workplace is an important step forward for LGBTQ rights continued discrimination against the trans community is “an absolute disgrace to humanity “. “You are the most courageous people in the world,” said John. “And the fact that they will be killed, the fact that they are not treated as non-existent and important … These people are heroes to me … to exercise their rights, to make it not feel like an absolute shame for both mankind . “the pair also talked about how many parallels between the coronavirus pandemic in the United States and the global crisis of HIV / AIDS in terms attracted the systemic reasons why the disease disproportionately affect black and brown communities. “What we have seen with HIV / AIDS when it began in the ’80s, was that affected a marginalized community, but then grew to become the largest disease that affects the entire planet … with’ HIV / AIDS, now we see a disproportionate number of new infections among African Americans blacks, “says Furnish, noting that while African Americans 13% of the US population, are the AIDS infections account for 42% of all new cases of HIV /. “COVID also has a light shown on this because we have seen a disproportionate number of African-Americans from COVID influenced and the same socio-economic problems that we face with HIV / AIDS who come out on top.” The solution to these inequalities, by John and Furnish, is to meet the community who most need help with access to health care. “COVID exposed the cracks even deeper,” says Furnish. “We know that HIV / AIDS. We saw. And COVID showed an even greater light. There is something very unpleasant for [that ‘s] richest country in the world, the richest country in the world not exists for all improved access to health care is affordable. it is an absolute fundamental human right, and we believe that “this article is # TIME100Talks part. Finding Hope, a special series for the heads of families in various fields with actions for a better world. I want more? Register for access to multiple virtual events, including live interviews with newsmakers influential. This interview is part of a special series created in collaboration with Katie Couric. Read more about the TEMPO relationship with Katie Couric, and sign up for their newsletter the day of morning wake week with Katie Couric. Picture copyright
Elton John says that members of the transgender community are his heroes: They are the bravest people in the world ‘
