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On the recordMarch 11, 2024
I worry for my 15-year-old daughter, who will think that it is normal, a conflated part of her identity as a girl or a woman in this country, to experience these indignities and these violations.
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Ayanna Pressley
Democratic · Massachusetts
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Pressley expresses concern for her daughter's normalization of trauma and violations.

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