Which leads me back to a point I have been wanting to make for awhile. At our last Trans Day of Remembrance planning meeting, the subject came up about how many more transgender people were there. Maybe not organized - but there.
If you watch any of these video's it turns out we have always been somewhere in the shadows waiting for our turn.
I have also began to follow another very wordy blog whom I think was trying to explain away any transgender movement.
I would argue she doesn't read much other than her own blog or doesn't get out much.
As I have always said, it matters not how beautiful you are or aren't, or how rarely you do get out of the closet, unless you are a complete ass, you are part of a larger transgender movement.
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| Candis Cayne |
There is much more to this link including Jen Richards, co-writer, star, and producer of "Her Story," who then used the example of transgender actress Candis Cayne who
became a positive role model. Cayne, when she came to national attention in 2007 starring in the ABC drama, Dirty Sexy Money. She was the first transgender actress to play a recurring transgender character in primetime, said Richards.
Growing up, Richards said she didn't see people like her on television. They were usually "the dead prostitute or the punch line," she said.
The next generation of trans people will have the advantage of seeing "trans people speaking in their own voices" onscreen in programs like "Her Story," said Richards."
Maybe it's just me, but this just might be a transgender movement?
Maybe it's just me, but this just might be a transgender movement?
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