Race Matters-Even In The Trans Community

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Race Matters-Even In The Trans Community
Transgriot
By Monica Roberts
28 September, 2010


http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2010/09/race-matters-even-in-trans-community.html


One of the issues I get pushback on by some people in the trans community is when I point out the numerous instances in which trans people of color are erased, ignored, or just flat out not talked about when it comes to trans community issues.

Some vanilla flavored or young POC transperson will read my stuff blasting the erasure and trot out various spin lines such as 'we're a small community', 'we're one people' accuse me of being 'too fixated on race' to deflect the reality that as a subset of the larger culture, the trans community is infected by the same ills and isms of the dominant culture.