Trans* Year End Reflections: The Shape of Things to Come[/b]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/laura-a-jacobs-lcswr/trans-year-end-reflection_b_8884128.html?utm_hp_ref=transgenderThe Huffington Post/By Laura A. Jacobs, LCSW-R Posted: 12/31/2015 12:16 pm EST Updated: 12/31/2015 12:59 pm EST
"This season always makes me mull our future.
Our history is one of oppression. It is a history of being directed how we were to live: that it was necessary we dress a particular way or that we were unable dress a particular way, that we were required to use certain bathrooms or were forbidden from using certain bathrooms, that we were compelled to assume specific, predefined identities or that we were prohibited from taking on other identities. It is a history of the mainstream insisting we set aside our needs so as to maintain the social order. And it is a history of being assaulted and murdered for having the audacity to insist our presence be recognized. Ours is a history of pain."
