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Title: Power, vulnerability, and getting read
Post by: Natasha on August 12, 2008, 05:08:08 PM
Power, vulnerability, and getting read

http://transgroupblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/power-vulnerability-and-getting-read.html (http://transgroupblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/power-vulnerability-and-getting-read.html)
8/11/2008

I got read this morning.  The circumstances aren't really relevant beyond setting the context. I had just come up out of the Metro and was walking the couple of blocks to my office when a man stopped me to ask a question. My answer didn't satisfy him and he became angry and closed in on me, close enough to pick up some subtle cue that caused him to suspect I was transgender.