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FILE - In this June 13, 2012, file photo, police officers and supporters clap as Officer Richard Haste, center, exits the courthouse after posting bail in New York. Haste pleaded not guilty to manslaughter charges in the shooting death of unarmed, black teenager Ramarley Graham. Haste was expected to offer his first public account of the slaying at his department disciplinary trial on Friday, Jan. 20, 2017. Haste initially faced a criminal manslaughter charge in the 2012 death of Graham, but the case was ultimately dismissed. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

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CHICAGO, IL - FEBRUARY 25: Demonstrators protest for transgender rights on February 25, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois. The demonstrators were angry with President Donald Trumps recent decision to reverse the Obama-era policy requiring public schools to allow transgender students to use the bathroom that corresponds with their gender identity. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

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LONDON, ENGLAND - JUNE 25: Daisy Thwait, 1, watches the Pride parade with her father as the LGBT community celebrates Pride in London on June 25, 2016 in London, England. Across the city performances and speeches take place as a parade makes it way through the centre ending in Trafalgar Square. 2016 Pride in London comes just two weeks after Omar Mateen shot dead 50 people at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. (Photo by Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images)

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FILE - In this June 26, 2016, file photo, a woman holds a rainbow flag during the NYC Pride Parade in New York. Young Americans overwhelmingly say they support LGBT rights when it comes to employment, health care and adoption. That’s according to a new GenForward survey, which finds 92 percent of young adults support HIV and AIDs prevention, 90 percent support equal employment, and 80 percent support LGBT adoption. Across ethnic groups, large majorities of Americans aged 18 to 30 favor training police on transgender issues, government support for LGBT youth organizations and insurance coverage for transgender health issues. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

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Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during an event to formally launch the Biden Institute, a research and policy center focused on domestic issues at the University of Delaware, in Newark, Del., Monday, March 13, 2017. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

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Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price speaks outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, Monday, March 13, 2017, after Congress' nonpartisan budget analysts reported that 14 million people would lose coverage next year under the House bill dismantling former President Barack Obama's health care law. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

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U.S. Attorney Zachary T. Fardon of the Northern District of Illinois speaks during a news conference Friday, Jan. 13, 2017, in Chicago. The U.S. Justice Department issued a scathing report on civil rights abuses by Chicago's police department over the years. The report released Friday alleges that institutional Chicago Police Department problems have led to serious civil rights violations, including racial bias and a tendency to use excessive force. (AP Photo/Teresa Crawford)

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NEW YORK, NY - FEBRUARY 19: People take part in a rally called 'I Am A Muslim Too' in a show of solidarity with American Muslims at Times Square on February 19, 2017 in New York City. A new version of a Trump administration travel ban will not stop green card holders or travelers already on planes from entering the United States, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly said. (Photo by Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images)

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DURHAM, NC - MAY 10: Unisex signs hang outside bathrooms at Toast Paninoteca on May 10, 2016 in Durham, North Carolina. Debate over transgender bathroom access spreads nationwide as the U.S. Department of Justice countersues North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory from enforcing the provisions of House Bill 2 (HB2) that dictate what bathrooms transgender individuals can use. (Photo by Sara D. Davis/Getty Images)

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NEW YORK, NY - FEBRUARY 16: Immigrants and their supporters rally outside of the Varick Street Federal Immigration Court during a protest against recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids, February 16, 2017 in New York City. Last week, U.S. immigration authorities arrested hundreds of undocumented immigrants in multiple states. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

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FILE This Tuesday Aug. 25, 2015 file photo shows Gavin Grimm on his front porch during an interview at his home in Gloucester, Va. A U.S. appeals court has overturned a policy barring a transgender student from using the boys' restrooms at his Virginia high school. A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday, April 19, 2016 that the Gloucester County School Board policy is discriminatory. A federal judge had earlier rejected Grimm's sex discrimination claim. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

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The trans sister of Trump inauguration singer just scored a...

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A new sticker designates a gender neutral bathroom at Nathan Hale high school Tuesday, May 17, 2016, in Seattle. President Obama’s directive ordering schools to accommodate transgender students has been controversial in some places but since 2012 Seattle has mandated that transgender students be able to use of the bathrooms and locker rooms of their choice. Nearly half of the district’s 15 high schools already have gender neutral bathrooms and one high school has had a transgender bathroom for 20 years. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

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A Los Angeles Unified School District bus driver walks past parked vehicles at a bus garage in Gardena, Calif., on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2015. The nation's two biggest school systems, New York City and Los Angeles, received threats of a large-scale attack Tuesday, and L.A. reacted by shutting down the entire district. New York dismissed the warning as an amateurish hoax and held class as usual. In LA, the threat came in the form of an email to a school board member that raised fears of another attack like the recent deadly shooting in nearby San Bernardino. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

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Hundreds protested outside the White House against Trump's...

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DURHAM, NC - MAY 11: A gender neutral sign is posted outside a bathrooms at Oval Park Grill on May 11, 2016 in Durham, North Carolina. Debate over transgender bathroom access spreads nationwide as the U.S. Department of Justice countersues North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory from enforcing the provisions of House Bill 2 (HB2) that dictate what bathrooms transgender individuals can use. (Photo by Sara D. Davis/Getty Images)

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The Trump administration is gutting federal guidelines that...

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Native American women at Standing Rock deliver powerful...

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SALT LAKE CITY, UT - APRIL 2: Thousands of Mormons sing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in the Conference Center during the 186th Annual General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints on April 2, 2016 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Mormons from around the world will gather in Salt Lake City to hear direction from church leaders at the two day conference. (Photo by George Frey/Getty Images

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FILE - In a Monday, Dec. 1, 2014 file photo, Tomiko Shine holds up a picture of Tamir Rice, the 12 year old boy fatally shot on Nov. 22 by a rookie police officer, in Cleveland, Ohio, during a protest in response to a grand jury's decision in Ferguson, Mo. to not indict police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown, in Washington. For centuries, grand juries have held some of the criminal justice system’s best-kept secrets. But their private process has come under extraordinary public scrutiny after high-profile decisions not to indict police officers in the deaths of unarmed men. Calls for more transparency have sounded in Congress, statehouses and editorial pages, mixed with notes of caution about forswearing secrecy that can safeguard witnesses and the accused. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File) (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana))

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Actor Maulik Pancholy attends the premiere of "Trishna" during the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival on Friday, April 27, 2012 in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)

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Adan Garcia, 20, left, from San Luis-Santa Barbara, Honduras is interviewed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer after a raid in Santa Ana, Calif., Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2007. The week-long series of raids targeting five counties in the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area resulted in the arrest of 338 illegal immigrants at their homes, while another 423 were taken into ICE custody at county jails, said Virginia Kice, spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. (AP Photo/Mark Avery)

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In this Monday, Aug. 22, 2016 photo, transgender high school student Gavin Grimm poses in Gloucester, Va. Grimm, who was born female but identifies as male, heads back to Gloucester High School for his senior year as the U.S. Supreme Court considers whether to intervene in his case that challenges the county school’s policy barring him from using the bathroom of his choice. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

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Nearly 800 parents of transgender students sign letter...

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Jojo Striker is the third trans person reported murdered this...

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A woman is arrested during an anti-abortion protest during the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2008. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

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Study finds violent threats against abortion clinics are at a...

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President Donald Trump listens as Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, after Vice President Mike Pence administered the oath of office to Sessions. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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Thousands gather at Denver's City Center Park for a rally in support of the Muslim community and to protest President Donald Trump's executive order to temporarily ban some refugees from seven mostly Muslim countries, in Denver, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2017. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

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Holly Doll, of Mandan, an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, holds a protest sign outside the state’s capitol building, in Bismarck, N.D., Saturday, Oct. 29, 2016. Doll and more than 60 other demonstrators voiced their opposition to an oil pipeline crossing an under water source that lies on the reservation land. (AP Photo/ John L. Mone)

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Jamie Killips of Madison waves an LGBT pride flag Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017, during the Women's March near State Street in Madison, Wis. (Angela Major/The Janesville Gazette via AP)

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FILE - In a Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2016 file photo, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau holds a press conference at the National Press Theatre in Ottawa, Ontario. Canada's ethics commissioner is launching an investigation into Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's recent family holiday at the Aga Khan's private island in the Bahamas. Ethics commissioner Mary Dawson said Monday, Jan. 16, 2017, Trudeau may have violated the federal ethics code during his holiday with the Aga Khan, a family friend, philanthropist and hereditary spiritual leader to the world's approximately 15 million Ismaili Muslims. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP, File)

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In this photo made Thursday, March 31, 2016, gay-rights supporter Mathew "Skippy" Mauldin holds a flag during rally outside the Capitol in Jefferson City, Mo. Republican lawmakers still upset about a U.S. Supreme Court ruling legalizing gay marriage have advanced measures in about a dozen states, including Missouri, that could strengthen religious protections for those who decline to provide services to same-sex couples. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

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Trump says he won't roll back LGBTQ protections—but...

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Sir Mo Farah file photo. File photo dated 13-08-2016 of Great Britain's Mo Farah celebrates winning the Men's 10,000m final. Issue date: Sunday January 29, 2017. Sir Mo Farah has issued a statement on Facebook regarding US president Donald Trump's travel ban, saying: "On January 1 this year, Her Majesty The Queen made me a Knight of the Realm. On January 27, President Donald Trump seems to have made me an alien." See PA story ATHLETICS Farah. Photo credit should read Owen Humphreys/PA Wire. URN:29905466

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British-Somali Olympian slams Trump's executive order for its...

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Protesters and immigrants' rights' advocates rally in opposition to President Donald Trump's immigration order as it sowed more chaos and outrage across the country Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017, at Battery Park in New York. Some travelers were detained at airports, while panicked families searched for relatives. Protesters like these registered their opposition to the president's sweeping measure that was blocked by several federal courts. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

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Protester Gregory Saint-Jean holds a sign during a rally against President Donald Trump's executive order on Muslim immigration, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2017, in downtown Miami. Protesters manifested their opposition to Trump's executive order restricting immigration from some Middle Eastern and African countries. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

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Hundreds of New Yorkers rally in Washington Square Park, on January 25, 2017, voicing loud opposition to President Trump's executive order banning Muslims from certain countries from traveling to the U.S. (Photo by Michael Nigro) *** Please Use Credit from Credit Field ***(Sipa via AP Images)

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FILE - In this Sept. 26, 2011 photo, college student Jasmine Oliver, of Warwick, R.I., top left, and Javier Gonzalez, of Pawtucket, R.I., top right, display a banner and shout their support for allowing illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition rates while attending public colleges in the state, during a Board of Governors of Higher Education meeting on the campus of the Community College of Rhode Island, in Warwick, R.I. But research varies on the effects of resident tuition rates for illegal immigrants, including on enrollment, and students may still face a tough road even if they graduate with a college degree: Without passage of the DREAM Act or other federal immigration reform, illegal immigrant students have no pathway to legal status, and it remains illegal for employers to hire them. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

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Donald Trump climate change demonstration. A protestor dressed as US President Elect Donald Trump takes part in a demonstration outside the US Embassy, in London, against Trump's stance on climate change. Picture date: Friday November 18, 2016. See PA story ENVIRONMENT Trump. Photo credit should read: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire URN:29212880

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Black Lives Matter demonstrators and supporters of Joshua Beal, who was shot to death by an off duty Chicago police officer, and a group supporting Blue Lives Matter gather Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016, in the Mount Greenwood neighborhood of Chicago. The predominantly white neighborhood on Chicago's southwest side has been rocked by confrontations between protesters and police supporters for the second time since the fatal shooting of a black man by police over the weekend. (E. Jason Wambsgans//Chicago Tribune via AP)

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FILE - In this July 12, 2013 file photo, abortion rights advocates fill the rotunda of the State Capitol as Texas senators were wrapping up debate on sweeping abortion restrictions and were poised to vote on a measure after weeks of protests. Abortions have declined in states where new laws make it harder to have them - but they’ve also waned in states where abortion rights are protected, an Associated Press survey finds. Nearly everywhere, in red states and blue, abortions are down since 2010. While some of the new laws have been blocked by lawsuits, most have taken effect, contributing to closure of about 70 abortion clinics in a dozen states since 2010. States with the most closures, according to state officials and advocacy groups, include Texas with 27, Michigan and Arizona with about 12, and Ohio with at least four. (AP Photo/Tamir Kalifa, File)

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Carmen Perez, left, and Linda Sarsour, co-chairs of the Women's March on Washington, participate in an interview Jan. 9, 2017 in New York. The march will be held Jan. 21, 2017, the day after Donald Trump's inauguration. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

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A Muslim organizer of the Women's March is under attack from...

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FILE - In this Nov. 19, 2016 file photo, Mark Zuckerberg, chairman and CEO of Facebook, waves at the CEO summit during the annual Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in Lima, Peru. Zuckerberg is going to court to gain ownership of isolated pockets of land tucked away within his sprawling estate in Hawaii. Court documents filed by Zuckerberg's attorneys last month say many of the original owners died without a will and courts never established who inherited the land. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix, File)

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FILE - In this July 13, 2013 file photo, abortion rights advocates, left, protest in the State Capitol as anti-abortion rights supporters pass them in Austin, Texas. A coalition of national advocacy groups sued Texas on Monday, Dec. 12, 2016, seeking to block Texas' soon-to-be-implemented rules mandating the burial or cremation of fetal remains. The lawsuit filed Monday by the New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights is the latest legal battle in a state whose tough anti-abortion laws were already largely voided this summer by the U.S. Supreme Court. (AP Photo/Tamir Kalifa File)

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UNITED STATES - JANUARY 18: Secretary of Health and Human Services nominee Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., accompanied by Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., takes his seat before the start of his confirmation hearing in the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) (CQ Roll Call via AP Images)

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Protesters gather outside the White House after Donald Trump’s first visit as president-elect on November 10, 2016 in Washington, DC. Photo by Olivier Douliery/ABACA

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