Oh, Louise...!.
The Trans experience is not homogeneous or 'easy' (just like any other LGBQ experience) but we are kind of used to much more palatable ‘Trans stories' because that's much more easier to digest. Transitioning twenty, thirty, forty years ago was no walk in the park. Just listen to what Louise has to say about her journey. It's illuminating.
“We owe a debt of gratitude to our Trans elders”, someone commented on YouTube. And they are not wrong. We do.
XOXO
Any community owes a debt to those who came first and blazed a trail for the rest of us to follow. And we all owe a debt to anyone who blazed a trail to simply be accepted as themselves.
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Too many people want to airbrush out the harshness of rocky beginnings.
ReplyDeleteBig says,
ReplyDeleteThis was less about the struggle to transition than about how she danced in the clubs. The important thing here, from my perspective: she was (and is) free to express herself and she's happy.
XOXO
HuntleyBiGuy:
ReplyDeleteThis is a fascinating story, from her early life through the clubs and her engagements with others. She found her community. I wish this for so many others, as well as finding happiness.
XOXO 👨🏼❤️💋👨🏽
Yes we do!
ReplyDeleteA beautiful person living their truth, a lesson for all :)
ReplyDeleteAnd to think there are gay and lesbian men and women who abhor trans men and women. They can’t stand the use of the term LGBTQ+ , without the TQ+ there is no LGB ! They forget without the trans leading the charge at the Stonewall Inn of NYC 1969 and Compton’s Cafeteria of San Francisco in 1966 most of us would still be in the closet. That comfortable closet that to our horror became a stultifying and suffocating tomb ! And now we have a deranged government and it’s sick followers that want us back in that closet that becomes a tomb.
-Rj