Are We Really One Family?
Filed by: Father Tony
December 17, 2009 10:30 AM
http://www.bilerico.com/2009/12/are_we_really_one_family_the_answer_was_in_goldgat.phpAs part of the Bilerico editorial team (an uncompensated part, I add, because it is important that you know I make no money from this), I watched the unfolding of communal anger with interest and not a little deja vu as I listened to the indisputable shouts of "You hurt us!" and "You insulted us, you bigot."
Others have handled the failure of our team in detail. I'm taking this opportunity to examine the breakage, to wonder if it will heal, to wonder if it was never whole and to wonder what will be left when the cast comes off.
I came to some conclusions.
No matter how hard I try to understand the strife experienced by trans folks, I will always stumble in my appreciation. In this regard, a parallel can be drawn between the trans community and my Jewish friends. I don't opine about the Holocaust with them because the depth of their feeling about it is off limits to me. There are some rooms I cannot enter with them. The same is true with my trans friends.
