Trans Formed: To Be Homeless & Transgender

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Trans Formed: To Be Homeless & Transgender
By Lydie Raschka
Special to The Washington Post
Monday, July 28, 2008; Page C08

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/27/AR2008072701583.html

This tall, African American transgender woman speaks with a slight Texas drawl and favors tan slacks. She is brilliant -- the kind of person who learned to speak French watching "Sex and the City" on DVD by changing the language function. Last summer she won a full scholarship to a New England college, where she is pursuing a degree in international business. But when she came "home" to her cot in our church basement on break, she told me the students at her college don't really talk to her: "Their eyes kind of glaze over, you know?"

[NicholeW.]

A very beautiful and heart-touching essay that leaves me with the overwhelming question: why are we unable to see others in ourselves and why does it appear to be easier to those we would consider as "having nothing?"

Thanks, Syne. Thank you so very much.

Nichole