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 ...
The subtext of this article is how, as a white transsexual, she doesn’t have to fear murder as much as transsexuals of color, because men of color are more likely to murder transvestite/transsexuals.
S/he see this as some kind of white privilege instead of seeing it as it really is.
America is such a great country that you can be completely effed in the head and still get a great job as a teacher at a university.
A problem about which the author of the article (illustrated in #7 above) need have no fear!!
My pet with stage 3 cancer the last months has a genuine, actual hard burden hes living with.
Tran-man doesnt rank a tiny violin as far as I am concerned. Tran-man in a sane world would get genuine psychological and spiritual help. Instead of secular lies and cheerleading, and God made you this way bs.
Apple didn't fall far from that tree.
Trannies are so ugly. Maybe not before they started wearing dresses....
You’re not a bad person: you’re simply sane.
A former male needs help moving boxes? That’s not what girls against males in girls’ sports say.
Great Gutfeld response.
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