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Title: Why Black Transgender Role Models Are Important
Post by: Butterfly on April 19, 2009, 09:22:45 PM
Post by: Butterfly on April 19, 2009, 09:22:45 PM
Why Black Transgender Role Models Are Important
Transgriot
By Monica Roberts
April 19, 2009
http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2009/04/why-black-transgender-role-models-are.html (http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2009/04/why-black-transgender-role-models-are.html)
Wyatt T. Walker wrote in a December 1967 Negro Digest article, "Rob a people of their sense of history and you take away hope."
So when I stated that I wish I'd had pioneering transgender role models to look up to of African descent growing up like white transwomen have with Christine Jorgensen, April Ashley, and Phyllis Frye, I was speaking not only from a personal frame of reference, but from a historical one as well.
Yes, those people and many others have wonderful qualities that anyone can admire and emulate. But they also have in common the fact they are white.
Transgriot
By Monica Roberts
April 19, 2009
http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2009/04/why-black-transgender-role-models-are.html (http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2009/04/why-black-transgender-role-models-are.html)
Wyatt T. Walker wrote in a December 1967 Negro Digest article, "Rob a people of their sense of history and you take away hope."
So when I stated that I wish I'd had pioneering transgender role models to look up to of African descent growing up like white transwomen have with Christine Jorgensen, April Ashley, and Phyllis Frye, I was speaking not only from a personal frame of reference, but from a historical one as well.
Yes, those people and many others have wonderful qualities that anyone can admire and emulate. But they also have in common the fact they are white.