Donna Rose: Pride — A Transgender Perspective
http://blog.aclu.org/2008/06/20/donna-rose-pride-a-transgender-perspective/At first glance I'm pretty unremarkable. I'm a middle-aged woman, and a single parent to a 22-year-old son. I was divorced after a marriage of almost 20 years. I have a successful career as an IT consultant for Fortune 500 companies. I havetwo dogs, I rent a home, I enjoy photography and music, and I live paycheck to paycheck just like millions of other Americans.
The thing that makes me unique is that I'm transsexual. More specifically, I'm a transsexual woman. My path to womanhood was admittedly "untraditional" and arguably a bit more difficult than most, but somehow that seems to make it all the more valuable to me. That single fact about me doesn't make me better or worse than anyone else. It doesn't make me more or less worthy of basic human rights. It doesn't define me. Unfortunately, there is a world of people that choose to disagree.
