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Title: On the receiving end of horizontal violence
Post by: Shana A on September 02, 2011, 09:18:55 AM
On the receiving end of horizontal violence
Posted by LGBT Weekly
Thursday, September 1st, 2011
Commentary: Trans Progressive
by Autumn Sandeen

http://lgbtweekly.com/2011/09/01/on-the-receiving-end-of-horizontal-violence/ (http://lgbtweekly.com/2011/09/01/on-the-receiving-end-of-horizontal-violence/)

Back in 1999, the Rt. Rev. Barbara C. Harris stated the following in a sermon commemorating the 25th anniversary of the ordination of women in the Episcopal Church: "Let there be peace among us, and let us not be instruments of our own oppression."

Well, the trans community has a habit of eating its own to the point of becoming instruments of our own oppression. We engage in horizontal violence of the spirit without second thought.