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Sharon Franklin Brown's Story

Started by Shana A, October 09, 2009, 04:44:08 PM

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Shana A

October 09, 2009, 04:44:08 PM
Friday, October 09, 2009
Sharon Franklin Brown's Story
Posted by Monica Roberts at 12:00 PM

http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2009/10/sharon-franklin-browns-story.html

Thanks to the archived pages of JET magazine, we'll get to take another trip on the way back machine and check out a little trans history with soul.

This time we're going to travel back to November 1995 and the North Carolina campus of Fayetteville State University. We're going to tell the story of transwoman Sharon Franklin Brown's brush with job discrimination.

Sharon grew up in a southern African-American community, feeling the usual angst about her gender issues and sensing her family's shame about them. After telling her parents she was going to make the physical changes to complete her transition, they disowned her for 18 years.
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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