Trans Power
Filed By
Dr. Jillian T. Weiss |
August 06, 2012 11:00 AM http://www.bilerico.com/2012/08/trans_power.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BilericoProject+%28The+Bilerico+Project%29&utm_content=Google+Reader The trans community is seeing and being seen in way that it never before has in its long and secretive history. We are being discussed at the highest levels of politics in the United States and around the world, as a group worthy of the recognition and respect accorded to all human beings by virtue of the rights inherent in being human.
At the same time, this has created a platform for the oldest prejudices and canards against us to be aired as we struggle to create lives worth living. Martin Luther King often said that the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. But how quickly justice is to be achieved is not stated, and the arc can be long indeed, generations long.
What are the barriers to transgender people achieving the measure of power necessary in democracy for the recognition of the human rights to which we are entitled? Why are we so far behind the gay community in rights, economic power and cultural acceptance? What do we need to move our community forward?
I've been thinking about that lately, and here's what I've come up with. What do you think?
