Higher Standards
Transgriot
By Monica Roberts
05 July, 2010
http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2010/07/higher-standards.html (http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2010/07/higher-standards.html)
July 4 has come and gone, and I spent most of the day doing some hard, solid thinking about the state of the trans community and the African American segment of it.
I'm not feeling much pride in a community in which I do not see myself or people who share my ethnicity represented in it's senior decision making leadership ranks.
I see my people along with our Latina sisters taking the brunt of the casualties from anti-trans hatred. I don't see the issues we consider important reflected in the priorities of a movement we helped jump off.