Blog Against Racism Day

1.12.2005

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Opportunity to Prove Yet Again that White Transmen Don’t Get It ~ Priceless

And this same guy will wonder why “transsexuals don’t get any support from people of color!”

Or

State: “People of color are more homophobic or transphobic.”

Which begs the questions, than who? White people?

Own one’s white privilege means living in the world in our bodies, aware and present. Until white queers understand how our race enhances our position in the world, even as transsexuals, all the better things we want for ourselves will only happen piecemeal, if at all.

Like I asked earlier this week: how does the position of this white transman in the cartoon serve him, and us other white transsexuals? How does the belief that people are more homophobic or transphobic than us, serve us?

And in the end, I come back to paraphrase of my new favorite quote. What bodily instincts do we kill for the glory of the Great White Transsexual?