Except for today I did.
So when someone pointed at me today and said, "yeah! white arm bands! yeahhhhhh!!" I felt compelled to correct her.
I explained that today is Transgender Remembrance Day and she stood there witht his puzzled look on her face. "Whats that?" she asked me.
Almost too stunned at what she was asking, I paused and asked, "Whats what?"
"What's transgender?"
Seriously, do people not know what it is, or was it just my lucky day that I found the one girl who didn't. Anyway, I gave here a brief description of what it was, which I'm pretty sure she wasn't listening to.
But then she formed a brilliant question in the empty space between her ears, one which she felt compelled to ask me:
"Oh, you mean like Chris Crocker?"
I may not be transgendered, but somehow I feel that I represent at least someone when I say that I am embarrassed for the T community when it comes to Chris Crocker. People obviously know nothing about transgender, and the only person they know is the new spokesperson; Chris Fucking Crocker. This brash and cocky "star" is some people's first and sometimes only view of the transgendered community. And this ANGERS ME! People don't want to be judged by other people's actions! What if Michael Jackson represented the Black Community? It's unfair for a group to be evaluated and value based upon one eccentric representative. Maybe the reason that transgendered people are so looked down upon is because of the few that make it into mainstream society.
Its no wonder that they're commonly seen as freaks and unaccepted in society. Look at the models they have to base themselves off of.
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