I'm afraid my post this morning might have led to people thinking that I don't like the idea of transgendered people being included in the so-called "GLBT" community. On the contrary, I do, I just haven't had much experience in the true spirit of community. Most of the time it seems like our community is rather a bunch of disparate factions who just seem to be traveling in the same direction. As Ben Franklin put it in "1776", "we must all hang together, or assuredly, we will hang separately".
In response (or rebuttal) to Ronald Gold's "No to Transgender" piece the other day on Bilerico comes this piece by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss about transphobia in the gay community:
http://www.bilerico.com/2009/12/transphobia_in_the_gay_community.php
It's nice to get some historical perspective.
I think that's often true, certainly up to a point, Jaye...
ReplyDeleteYes, we have the fact that we are "trans" in common, but it's not the same sort of link as sexual orientation provides.
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chrissie
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