The Honesty Of Being Trans
by: Autumn Sandeen
Sat Mar 05, 2011 at 13:30:00 PM EST

http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/18791/the-honesty-of-being-trans

There is an insightful read over at Questioning Transphobia (there actually are many insightful reads at Questioning Transphobia, which is why I read the blog) entitled holding on. This post talks about why author little light loves trans community and believes in its members -- and it has to do with the honesty of trans community members. An excerpt:

    I want to suggest that we believe in us because we, as a people, are marked above all by our integrity.

    There is not much you can say that describes all trans people. We are a broad and heterogeneous bunch. But you can say this: contrary to what the cheap punchlines and propagandists, the frat boys and the Womyn's Landers, the sketch comedians and the murder defendants would have you believe, we are not united in a grand campaign of deceit. We may not be magical, or magically virtuous, but we are, as a people, astonishingly honest.

here's the quoted article

holding on
Written by little light
February 23rd, 2011 at 11:38 pm

http://www.questioningtransphobia.com/?p=3631

I believe in trans people.

Not because we are magically insightful.  Not because we are full of arcane shapechanger wisdom.  Not because we are more or less great or holy than anyone, in our way.  We have among us wonderful people and people who do and say terrible things.  We have our crooks and our hypocrites and our abusers and our traitors, same as anyone, right alongside our heroes and champions and grand examples of high character.  We are a mixed bag, you and me and you and you and you.  We don't have any more or fewer secret Mysteries in our blood, wherever it bleeds from.  We're people, with our tiny daily mistakes and triumphs, our hopes and our hopes for forgiveness.

I believe in trans people.

This piece is in fact something that anyone who is not trans, should have as required reading before they make unfounded judgments about trans people.  Its a reminder to us of things we may have lost sight of ourselves.