What We’ve Gained And Lost Since Stonewall

[stephaniec]

What We've Gained And Lost Since Stonewall

https://medium.com/gender-2-0/what-we-ve-gained-and-lost-since-stonewall-f95f9909d9d0

Medium/Miss Major
2 days ago·


"There is no because of this or that — Stonewall just happened. There was a tendency at that time for white people to think, well, she's a junkie or she's an alcoholic or she's a drug addict. She's anything but human, so why listen to her? That was the basic attitude towards us trans women in the 60s. And it just happened to be everywhere. Some of the girls back then, like Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson, tried to speak up for us, but just got laughed at. Everyone, especially the police, had been treating us trans girls poorly for years. They used to make trans women wear three articles of male clothing under their female attire in order to enter the bar. It was such a mental and emotional persecution building up over time — the ->-bleeped-<- just hit the fan, period."

[suzifrommd]

From the article, talking about police:

shooting all of our young black men every opportunity they get 

That statement made me so upset. It's unnecessarily inflammatory and bashes law enforcement officers, the majority of whom do their dangerous jobs quietly, and endure slurs like these based on a few foul racists in their midst.

Once I read that, I lost all appetite for reading the rest of the article.