WASHINGTON – Earline Budd came out as transgender to her Baptist family when she was a 9-year-old boy. Like many transgender women, the Washington native was in for a rough time. Her family didn’t accept her, and she said it was a traumatic experience. The...

“Look professional,” I told myself as I walked into the White House through what I thought was the main entrance. It was my first time walking into the most popular house in the U.S. Of course, I would be excited and nervous. I constantly restrained...