Why WE Can't Wait Either

[Shana A]

Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Why WE Can't Wait Either
Posted by Monica Roberts at 1:30 PM

http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2012/01/why-we-cant-wait-either.html

TransGriot Note: Guest post from Cheryl Courtney-Evans, the editor of the Abitchforjustice Blog.

Yesterday was the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday; it was a national holiday, resulting in celebrations, remembrances, and excerpts from his speeches repeated virtually everywhere in these United States (and some places abroad).

As I listened to the recitation of one of his literary offerings from his "Letters from a Birmingham Jail", that concerned "Why we can't wait", I thought about the lesser known equality promotion Rev. King did for the Gender Non-Conforming (GNC; aka LGBT) community (as we know, he and Coretta both spoke up for us on many occasions), and I couldn't help but consider how this piece could relate to the transgender community and how still today, too often we still find ourselves at the very bottom of the "totem pole" of society.

So just as Rev. King enumerated the reasons "Why we can't wait", I'd like to share with you all the reasons WE as a transgender community can't wait either...after all, patience is suppose to be a "virtue", right?