Friday, July 03, 2009
Of New Jack Racism – Jim And Jane Crow Makes A Comeback !
TransGriot Note: Guest post by Dawn Wilson, 2000 IFGE Trinity Award winner and the first African-American trans person to win the award.
http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2009/07/of-new-jack-racism-jim-and-jane-crow.htmlOnce again the forces of ignorance in the TG community show themselves. When my friend Monica wrote about the lack of African American transgender persons at the recent event in the White House she was kinder than I would have been.
It is well noted in many surveys that the minority transgendered population suffers the most in today's society.
Case in point, the 2000 Washington DC Transgender Needs Assessment Survey (WTNAS) which pointed out the gross disparities faced by many young minority men and women.
