Posted on 08/22/2015 1:21:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
IT was snowing in Maine on Jan. 9. I’d been to the dentist’s the day before. The staff there were pleasant enough when I changed genders 12 years ago. “We’ll just change your forms,” the receptionist had said, cheerfully. “It’s no problem.”
That day, Papi Edwards, 20, a transgender woman of color, was shot to death outside a hotel in Louisville, Ky.
If you’d told me in 2000, as a transgender woman just coming out, that I was a person of privilege, I’d have angrily lectured you about exactly how heavy the burden I’d been carrying was. It had nearly done me in: the shame, the secrecy, the loneliness. It had not yet occurred to me that other burdens, carried by other women, could be weightier.
On Jan. 17, I moved into a new apartment on 106th and West End in Manhattan, in anticipation of the spring semester at Barnard College, where I teach English. My son Zach came down with me, helping to carry my luggage. He was heading back to college the next day. We had lunch at an Ethiopian restaurant called Awash, on Amsterdam. I pointed out the window at the building across the street, where I’d lived with the screenwriter Charlie Kaufman in the early 1980s. I wasn’t out as transgender then; I couldn’t imagine it. Yet here I was, 30 years later, a Barnard professor, having lunch with my son, who is a drama major at Vassar.
Lamia Beard, a 30-year-old black trans woman, was shot that day in Norfolk, Va. It was the weekend before the Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday....
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
A switch-hitter for a "parent" and a drama major fag for a son.
No need to bring fruitcake for THIS family's reunions.
Dear God. What a freak. I’m sorry that man is ugly. And trying some sort of fake “womanly” smile that is so unbecoming in a man.
What “real” man attends Vassar?
Two riders were approaching. The wind began to howl.
http://hamptonroads.com/2015/01/police-id-victim-early-morning-norfolk-shooting
The area is known for its transgender prostitutes, according to the above article.
“Floyd Beard” was original name of the man also known as “Lamia”.
was “the” original name...
Epic.
Simply epic.
I loved Dragnet.
But nahhh... must have been straight white guys!
Evangelicals! Catholics who beat them to death with catechisms!
“Because non-trans folks never get shot.”
Sometimes I feel like I just woke up in La-La Land. - I was a kid born in a little Southern town, living on a hill beside cotton fields all around. I woke up in La-La Land; my little house on the hill is now surrounded by a by-pass highway on which there are Mexican & Chinese restaurants & my waiter at the pizza place is gay. I like Mexican & Chinese food, also pizza; but SHUT UP ALREADY!! - The woman in this “story” has no idea what the motive was in these shootings. Probably mugging & robbery. When in doubt, follow the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$. -
Amish.
These people are certifiable..
Black, white, it doesn't matter. Trying to fool Mother Nature and your "date" or "trick" does matter.
Am I a bad person for not giving a damn?
--Austin Powers.
Heck, it's Louavul. Everybody gets shot there sooner or later.
looks like the kind of guy who wouldn’t take finding out his date was “transitioning” into a female very well.
Why is it that these people think anyone cares about their incessant whining about how bad they had/have it? Like no one else has problems, issue etc. Shut up..... We don’t care...............
Transgender are clearly people of privileges, Sick, mental patients running the media circus.
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