TransGriot: Why The Transgender Community Hates HRC...or "Equality, only for the majority"

TransGriot: Why The Transgender Community Hates HRC

Simple.

The word 'equality' makes you think that EVERYONE is equal. Unfortunately, this is not the case.

I have noticed, in my reading/people watching/personal experiences, that the LGB of the community seems to have just as much misunderstanding and willful ignorance about gender variance as the masses.

After reading TransGriot, recommended by a member of TYFA, I have a deeper understanding of why. Some issues I had read elsewhere, some have only been alluded to and some were new and shocking to me.

It's great that we have come to a time when we shove all our letters - LGBTQ -, together to present a united front. Unfortunately, what isn't understood or seen by most is that it may be a united front in name only - with 'haves' and 'have-nots' deeply entrenched in it's history.

I am certainly not attempting to paint all LGBTQ communities with the same brush - just like anywhere or anything, I acknowledge that some places you will find more inclusion than others. What matters for the entire LGBTQ community is what the soldiers within their own foxhole are fighting for.

While the States can be vastly different than Canada, we have to accept that their policy and decision making is often reflected here and influences us - for good and bad.

Let's educate ourselves to ensure that when we support 'equality' this is what we are actually doing. Not 'equality' in a 'support-a-cause-sort-of-way', but EQUALITY where everyone in EVERY community (and here I am referring to LGBTQ, aboriginal, religion, race...anything and everything you can think of!) is covered by the blanket from chin to toes...no one is left out in the cold.

Please, read TranGriot to get a fuller understanding.