Quote Originally Posted by Unisex View Post
My question to you (and many other trans): Has the GLB community become more of an obstacle than a incentive for the progression for the trans community?
While I have worked with many lesbian and gay groups but to me the main agenda never fully includes transgendered persons. There are lots of people even gay people who feel this is a choice for us and they are not educated at all about persons diagnosed with gender dysphoria

I was just talking to a few black gay men the other day and they were telling me how they felt it was hard enough to be respected as a gay person and that trannies take away from the serious issues.

I understand most peoples attitudes about us and toward us are totally based on images of us portrayed by the media.

There are trans people all over the world doing amazing things but the only ones that will ever get press and or being noticed are those that are scandals. So most people assume we are all like the girls on Jerry Maury or on youtube and all these blog sites claiming to have had sex with and fooled hundreds of unsuspecting men.

Most people have no idea what a transexual really is according to The Harry Benjamin Standards of Care for Transexuals including many transexuals and those that claim to be into transexuals.

Anyone that knows me knows I am about doing for self I don't expect anyone gay lesbian or straight to take us serious until we do ourselves first.

I personally feel the transexual community has taken steps back from where we were decades ago.