Trans activist Sass Rogando Sasot’s speech at the UN

[Shana A]

Trans activist Sass Rogando Sasot's speech at the UN
December 13, 2009

http://birdofparadox.wordpress.com/2009/12/13/trans-activist-sass-rogando-sasots-speech-at-the-un/

You Tube link:

A written transcript of the speech Reclaiming the lucidity of our hearts may be found on the blog of her organisation, link here

    United Nations, New York, 10 December 2009: Panel discussion organized by the Permanent Missions to the United Nations of Argentina, Brazil, Croatia, France, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden on the occasion of the International Day of Human Rights.

    Theme: Opposing grave Human Rights Violations on the basis of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

[Suzy]

This is an awesome speech!

Kristi

[cynthialee]

Made me cry.

[Alyssa M.]

Wow. I wasn't expecting anything special. I was wrong.

[V M]

Great and powerful speech   

[Allamakee]

Ms. Sasot is a terrific speaker.  I'm so glad she was able to travel to the UN to represent us.  A human face often wins hearts in ways that words alone do not.

In the first post is a link to the transcript of her speech, but I couldn't get it to work.  Transgriot has a copy of it so I will post a link to sites, just in case one of them go down.

http://strapmanila.blogspot.com/2009/12/reclaimin-lucidity-of-our-hearts.html

http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2009/12/strap-founders-un-speech.html

[gennee]

Great speech. I was encouraged by her words.

Gennee

[Virginia87106]

She spoke with such passion and emotion.  It was truly a great moment.

[tekla]

Now is the time that we realize that diversity does not diminish our humanity, that respecting diversity does not make us less human, that understanding and accepting our differences does not make us cruel. And in fact, history has shown us that denying and rejecting human variability is the one that has led us to inflicting indignity upon indignity towards each other.


Good stuff