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TRANSCRIPT: Ugandan Trans Woman Pens Courageous Open Letter to Parliament

Started by Shana A, November 29, 2012, 08:35:59 AM

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November 29, 2012, 08:35:59 AM
TRANSCRIPT: Ugandan Trans Woman Pens Courageous Open Letter to Parliament
The woman asked her members of Parliament to reject the so-called "kill the gays" bill.
BY Sunnivie Brydum
November 28 2012 6:04 PM ET

http://www.advocate.com/news/world-news/2012/11/28/ugandan-trans-woman-pens-courageous-open-letter-parliament

Cleo K., a transgender woman living in Uganda, penned an open letter asking her members of Parliament to reject the country's "Anti-Homosexuality Bill," which would criminalize LGBT Ugandans and subject some to the death penalty.

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While western activists rally against the draconian legislation, Americans have heard precious little from LGBT people living in Uganda. This morning, a transgender Ugandan woman, going by the name Cleo K., posted an open letter to members of parliament on her Facebook account, asking the legislators for tolerance and tepid acceptance of variant sexual orientations and gender identities.

Read her entire poignant message, in which she delineates sexual orientation from gender identity and chronicles her own family's long journey to accepting her, on the next page.
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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