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This Trans Woman Doesn't Understand Why People Are Pissed She Voted For Trump

“I felt that this is the first time I walked through Pride as completely myself."

Meet Edie DePoorter-Dixon, proud trans woman and... Trump supporter?

DePoorter-Dixon, 30, who was born in Cuba to a Catholic family and raised in Nebraska, came out as transgender in 2015. Earlier this year, the Oregon resident also came out publicly as a conservative, Women in the World reports.

While recently attending Portland Pride with her hunky husband, Daniel DePoorter-Dixon, the crowd "stared in disbelief" at her red “Make America Great Again” hat, which she wore to complement her tight daisy dukes and black Nirvana t-shirt.

“I felt that this is the first time I walked through Pride as completely myself,” she says. “The M.A.G.A. hat wasn’t just a Trump hat, it represented freedom of political choice—something I felt like I had to hide from the gay community.”

DePoorter-Dixon claims to have lost nearly all her friends in recent months, and CC Slaughters, the Portland gay club where she regularly danced, has canceled her shows. She says that the consequences of coming out as conservative have been worse than the physical harassment she suffered while living for years as a gay man in small-town Nebraska.

"I still had my friends, family, and support system," she explains. "I lost all of that, including my career, for coming out conservative.”

Bruce Ross, a former friend, blames DePoorter-Dixon's alienation from the LGBT community on what he describes as intolerance and racism, related to her vocal criticism of Islam and the Black Lives Matter movement. “Hate isn’t a political view—sorry,” he says.

Although Trump ignored LGBT Pride month and penned an order rescinding Obama-era protections for transgender students, DePoorter-Dixon is more focused on issues such as free speech and gun rights. “Whatever party I feel aligns more with [standing for] our constitutional rights is where my support and loyalty lies,” she says.

Women in the World also spotlights another trans woman, Athena Brown, who has become alienated from her LGBT friends but finds the conservative community to be "absolutely friendly, accepting, and loving.”

A 2014 Gallup poll found that one in five LGBT Americans identifies as conservative, and Log Cabin Republicans president Gregory Angelo believes that number is even higher today.

“Supposed advocates of the LGBT community do not have its best interests at heart if they are trying to shut down anyone who disagrees with them," Angelo says. "That is harmful to our ability to move toward a country where LGBT Americans have true equality.”

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