Why Black Transgender Role Models Are Important

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Why Black Transgender Role Models Are Important
Transgriot
By Monica Roberts
April 19, 2009


http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2009/04/why-black-transgender-role-models-are.html


Wyatt T. Walker wrote in a December 1967 Negro Digest article, "Rob a people of their sense of history and you take away hope."

So when I stated that I wish I'd had pioneering transgender role models to look up to of African descent growing up like white transwomen have with Christine Jorgensen, April Ashley, and Phyllis Frye, I was speaking not only from a personal frame of reference, but from a historical one as well.

Yes, those people and many others have wonderful qualities that anyone can admire and emulate. But they also have in common the fact they are white.