Tired Of Being Invisible
Transgriot
By Monica Roberts
23 July, 2010


http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2010/07/tired-of-being-invisible.html


I get the honor of closing out this LGBT Week of posts here at the Rude Pundit. It has been an interesting week of commentary from some of the leading bloggers in the LGBT blogosphere.

Guest posting stints like this remind me that even though I don't consider myself an 'A' list blogger, other people and my blogging
peers think the TransGriot is all that and three bags of chips, and I thank The Rude Pundit for the invite.

So let's get to what's on my mind today.

I spent Tuesday and Wednesday attending the 2nd Annual Texas Transgender Nondiscrimination Conference on the Rice University campus. One of the conversations I was engaged in during our lunch break on Tuesday was the lack of visibility for African descended trans people.

We are all invisible, race does not matter. Just as many wish news articles didn't make a deal out of if a person is trans, I wish they didn't make a deal out of race. The article mentioned people from around th globe but I don't see any oriental people protesting about not having some one in the white house, nor do I see and Mediterranean people.


I guess I don't really think race when it comes to friends or jobs or anything else like that. I have a hard time seeing others that do in any good light and find them (racists) to be rare in my area.