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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Forever indebted.
DeleteThe kids should learn a thing or two.
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Too many people want to airbrush out the harshness of rocky beginnings.
ReplyDeleteThat is true.
DeleteThey also want to make it palatable for the straights. Assimilation is not always good though...
Too much whitewashing is bad.
XOXO
Big 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
I can see that.
DeleteBut I think that being Trans/not orthodox back then was just way too much for the picket fence gays. They wanted to mingle with the straights soooo badly...
She's quite the character.
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 👨🏼❤️💋👨🏽
She did!
DeleteIt's so important for us to find our 'niche'! She's a happy person now. I think that's the most important thing here...
XOXO
Yes we do!
ReplyDeleteAnd SO MANY gaylings forget that!
DeleteI get stabby when the young ones just brush the foreparents aside because they are not young and beautiful...
XOXO
A 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
That she is.
DeleteAnd you are right: there's so many gay men and women who just can't take Trans folks! Internalized homophobia is quite the ugly monster.
While most people stayed in the closet in the sixties and seventies, Trans women and effeminate gay men created a revolution.
Isn't that ironic?
And this administration does want to relegate us to the darkest corner they could find...
XOXO
They had it hard if you weren't in the accepting circles and "with it" people. Not to mention trans has gone back longer than most people think. Some even having the trans surgery in the 50's and 60's. April Ashley talks about her very early surgery and Britain first trans to have the surgery. Of course, she had the money to get it done by top notch surgeons. Most are not as lucky to have the connections and funds.
ReplyDeleteTo the gop....yet again, this is nothing new, move along and mind your own business.
Bingo!
DeleteThe Banana Republic gays wanted their picket fences and their 'normal' lifestyle (it was not a 'life') validated by the straights and Trans people just didn't let them have it! Boo fucking hoo.
The Repugs are, well, repugnant. What's new there?
XOXO