Laverne Cox
Actress, producer and transgender advocate; co-creator and star, 'TRANSform Me'
Gender Anti-Anxiety Medication
Posted: 10/21/11 01:14 AM ET
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/laverne-cox/gender-anti-anxiety-medication_b_1009424.htmlRecently my brother was chatting with someone and mentioned his sister and that she's transgender. The first question this person asked upon hearing this information was, "Has she had the full surgery yet?" By "the full surgery" this person meant bottom surgery. They basically were asking my brother to talk about his sister's genitalia. Not surprisingly, my brother wasn't really comfortable talking about his sister's genitals, nor would I be comfortable talking about my brother's. Ew!
But I suspect no one would ask me to talk about my brother's sex organs. If they did, God forbid, it likely wouldn't be the first question they asked me about him. This is because my brother doesn't identify as transgender. Yet it has been my experience that many people have no problem asking transgender people and the people in our lives about what's going on between our legs as soon as they hear we are trans.
