Privileged and Pretty Equals Success
Posted by Marti Abernathey on Sep 2nd, 2009
http://www.transadvocate.com/privileged-and-pretty-equals-success.htm (http://www.transadvocate.com/privileged-and-pretty-equals-success.htm)
This morning I received an email talking about a website called "The Pink Butterfly Network". It claims to be a knockoff of Lynn Conway's Transsexual Women's Successes, pointing to transsexual women who should inspire us.
I like Lynn Conway, and her Transsexual Women's Successes page has become more than just pretty faces. But this knockoff site and others like it bother me. A success to who? What qualifies as a success? Someone that is feminine? Someone that is pretty? To me, this list plays to the worst face of the trans-community. It's reminds me of this: