UN Speech: Transgender Discrimination pt.2
Going back to this topic...
A trans activist I know called Denise Anderson said of the video:
"But what are you all going to do to help with this......
We cannot keep just attending the one day a year to remember our brothers and sisters.....
The few cannot keep doing the work for others...
Help change these things... support campaigns.... PUSH for these kind of short films to be shown on a big screen at Sparkle.... Sparkle cannot just be a party.... it must be a education and realisation that we have a part in shaping our own lives... and don't give me the line that the more we do ordinary things then things will change... thats a small part to pay.... awareness..... AWARENESS is the key.......and Sass is brilliant and deserves more support......."
Another commentator said:
"Trans people are starting to develop a voice, this is the first step to us being able to define ourselves and talk to the rest of the world as people in our own right, rather than having others, whether they be shrinks, La Luna, Julie Bindel, Janice Raymond, Moving Wallpaper or Kenneth Zucker, speaking for us. We need to move from being the subject of other people's conversations to speaking for ourselves and in our own right as people. If Sparkle could start to move in that direction then we will have moved successfully towards this and have become citizens in our own right rather than objects that can be taken the piss out of with impunity."
I say:
Sass's UN speech needs to be seen by as many people as possible!
As much as it may pain some people to hear Denise's challenge, as I understand it we need to not blend into the background, not be quiet and disappear.
Sass's speech at the UN and her action of standing up on a podium is a call to arms.
But I also understand that transgendered people are just like any other people - some are loud, some are shy, some are politically active and others are not.
All the same, until our voice is bigger than it is right now then we will be trampled under foot in an indiscriminate way.
So the question is:
If not you... Who? If not now... When?
I'm not quiet about being transsexual and I hope I never will be.
A trans activist I know called Denise Anderson said of the video:
"But what are you all going to do to help with this......
We cannot keep just attending the one day a year to remember our brothers and sisters.....
The few cannot keep doing the work for others...
Help change these things... support campaigns.... PUSH for these kind of short films to be shown on a big screen at Sparkle.... Sparkle cannot just be a party.... it must be a education and realisation that we have a part in shaping our own lives... and don't give me the line that the more we do ordinary things then things will change... thats a small part to pay.... awareness..... AWARENESS is the key.......and Sass is brilliant and deserves more support......."
Another commentator said:
"Trans people are starting to develop a voice, this is the first step to us being able to define ourselves and talk to the rest of the world as people in our own right, rather than having others, whether they be shrinks, La Luna, Julie Bindel, Janice Raymond, Moving Wallpaper or Kenneth Zucker, speaking for us. We need to move from being the subject of other people's conversations to speaking for ourselves and in our own right as people. If Sparkle could start to move in that direction then we will have moved successfully towards this and have become citizens in our own right rather than objects that can be taken the piss out of with impunity."
I say:
Sass's UN speech needs to be seen by as many people as possible!
As much as it may pain some people to hear Denise's challenge, as I understand it we need to not blend into the background, not be quiet and disappear.
Sass's speech at the UN and her action of standing up on a podium is a call to arms.
But I also understand that transgendered people are just like any other people - some are loud, some are shy, some are politically active and others are not.
All the same, until our voice is bigger than it is right now then we will be trampled under foot in an indiscriminate way.
So the question is:
If not you... Who? If not now... When?
I'm not quiet about being transsexual and I hope I never will be.