Sunday, April 01, 2012
Damn Skippy We Have The Right To Dream
Posted by Monica Roberts at 2:00 AM
http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2012/04/damn-skippy-we-have-right-to-dream.htmlI read Laverne Cox's recent HuffPo article which talked about the Jenna Talackova Miss Canada Universe controversy and a transwoman's right to dream.
But like Laverne, I'm troubled by the arrogant presumption of cis people that they have the right to interfere with our human rights by any mean necessary.
We struggle to achieve the first dream in terms of making our minds and bodies match and being able to live our lives in the gender role we present to the world. That task is difficult enough without having a vast array of haters eagerly working to place barriers in our way so that we can't achieve our dreams we had for our post transition lives.
We transwomen must push back just as hard against the people determined to kill our dreams and aspirations and fight to make them a reality.
