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Title: A Different Take On The Transgender Breakout Session
Post by: Shana A on January 27, 2009, 08:37:27 AM

A Different Take On The Transgender Breakout Session
by: Autumn Sandeen
Mon Jan 26, 2009 at 17:00:00 PM EST

http://pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=33CF17ED8132411ECBAD5E3DAB94EB62?diaryId=9208 (http://pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=33CF17ED8132411ECBAD5E3DAB94EB62?diaryId=9208)

How often does one get to be extremely offended and angered by reporting of an LGBT writer who visits an intimate trans space? That was me today, knowing I'd sat in a room with a clueless LGBT new media reporter this past Saturday at the Equality Summit's Transgender breakout session.

This excerpt below is from a piece is from the other new media reporter who went to the transgender breakout session -- she produced a piece for LA.MetBlogs:

    I went to the ->-bleeped-<- session and out of all the minorities struggling to find their voice in the LGBTI movement, none is between a bigger rock and a harder place than trannies.  Generally considered a liability - as in, "You
    Buffalo Bills and walking Thai surgery centers represent that slippery slope argument they keep talking about"  - trannies are the black sheep of the LGBTI family.  My group was stymied as to how to make their social and political challenges relevant to the movement without alienating the public and indirectly hurting the gay community as a whole.  What I took away from this was: that's how non-white gays and lesbians used to, and still do, feel!