This Is New And Different
June 30th, 2008 by Autumn Sandeen
Well, I’ve never seen this before. A group of trans-identified folk fundraising for a major party presidential candidate perceived to be a transgender friendly candidate.
Well, I wasn’t planning on giving to any presidential campaign this year, but I donated in response to this letter. It’s knowing that the few dollars I donated are going to be bundled with other transgender people’s donations, 
and identified as coming from a group of folk who identify as I do.
Frankly, it’s becoming more and more important to me that transgender people are politically visible. For the future, transgender people’s civil rights and protections will likely depend a great deal on how well we present ourselves as human beings — and as valuable constituents — to our lawmakers.
I intend to continue to stay pretty damn visible. My peers apparently feel pretty similarly.
Posted in 2008 Election, civil rights, law and legislation, politics, transactivism, transgender, transgender civil rights |
July 1st, 2008 at 6:07 pm
i got a wee bit panicky when i saw the headline about Obama courting the religious right about steering social service funds to faith based groups. I did a Kyle’s mother from south park actually out loud “WHAT WHAT WHAT !!
- but my young friend in earshot reminded me , this is politics and he is likely trying to win some votes in order to show McPain to be the dud he is - and besides its the congress that ultimately makes that decision -
I continue to be hopeful that Obama is doing what he needs to do in order to get elected and that is a good thing. Its important to be realistic - I mean i never want to experience the dissapointment felt after Clinton jerked us around so badly- remember those heady days of feeling we finally had a lavender foot in the door.
Its wonderful to see our TG community organizing - ENDA in Oct changed everything..and our growth and self advocacy has grown in quantum leaps. YAY US !