The Transitive Property: Why Transgender Awareness Week Is Important
Monday, February 28th, 2011 | By Cristopher Bautista
http://www.stanforddaily.com/2011/02/28/the-transitive-property-why-transgender-awareness-week-is-important/This week is Transgender Awareness Week at Stanford, and of course, I love it when people are aware of me. But I feel like whenever I write a column during a week that is important for LGBT issues, I always end up writing about something depressing. When I was younger, the only transgender people I heard about were the ones who had been wronged, who had been murdered. The lesson I learned as a young child, watching the news and reading the newspapers, was that transgender people are bad, deserving the things that come to them. As I grew up, I was so scared to be myself, so scared that if anybody found out about me, that I'd end up that way too. And I'm not going to lie, that impression left on me during those childhood days still hasn't left me. There are days when I get out of bed sad and think how easy and great and convenient my life would be if I had just been born with, you know, the "right" parts, that I'd meet an early end because I put myself too far out there.
But this week is not the week to get depressed.
