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Deal With It

Started by Shana A, June 02, 2009, 08:46:10 AM

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Shana A

June 02, 2009, 08:46:10 AM
Monday, June 01, 2009
Deal With It
Posted by Monica Roberts at 5:48 AM

http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2009/06/deal-with-it.html

While perusing the digital copy of the May 1983 issue of EBONY, I ran across an article written about pioneering African-American sex therapist Dr. June Dobbs Butts.

She had this to say about transgender people:

"It goes against the grain for a lot of Black people to think that there are Black men who want to undergo sex-change surgery. When they think of transsexuals, they usually think in terms of Christine Jorgensen and Renee Richards and other White persons who've been in the news.

"Many people don't know that the first such surgery that was done in the US was done at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, and the patient was a Black man (Avon Wilson).
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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