Dr. Khiara Bridges appeared before a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on abortion access in post-Roe v. Wade America on Tuesday, battling beliefs Senator Josh Hawley espoused that she said were transphobic and subjected trans people to violence – a response the Republican from Missouri made clear he did not appreciate.
A Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, Dr. Bridges earned her law degree from Columbia University School of Law, and her Ph.D.
in Anthropology from Columbia University. She earned her B.A. in Sociology from Spelman College where she graduated summa cum laude. RELATED: ‘Jan.
6 Wasn’t a Fantasy’: Top Missouri Paper Says It’s ‘Long Past Time’ for Senate to Investigate Josh Hawley Senator Hawley focused his questions on transgender people, who the far-right have been negatively targeting from several different angles. “Professor Bridges, you said several times, you’ve used a phrase I want to make sure I understand what you mean by it.