2008-The Year Of The Black Transperson

[Natasha]

2008-The Year Of The Black Transperson

http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2008/12/2008-year-of-black-transperson.html
Monica Roberts
12/19/2008

Ever since Christine Jorgensen stepped off the plane in New York from Denmark in 1953, the media coverage concerning transgender people has been disproportionately focused on white transgender people.

What little coverage we have garnered has been limited to African-American oriented publications such as EBONY or JET, focusing on us when the subject turns to transgender prostitution or repeated inaccurate, insensitive and sensationalized stories filled with incorrect pronoun usage about transwomen who lost their lives to anti-transgender violence.

[Shana A]

also posted at http://www.bilerico.com/2008/12/2008-the_year_of_the_black_transperson.php

[RebeccaFog]

I've felt that black TG's are overlooked often too.

Except in stupid hollywood where transgendered people are thought of as punchlines.  It seems that they find it more effective to get a laugh from a transgendered character who is black.

It's hard enough to be a minority sometimes, but being a minority within a minority has to be the worst.

This is just how I feel.