I see more non-caucasian transgender people than white ones....

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Is this anecdotal, or has anyone else noticed this too? Or is it just a San Francisco thing?

― andy --, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 23:55 (twenty years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/21/28850786_97396c0fa6_m.jpg

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 23:56 (twenty years ago)

dude, Asia SF

― jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 23:57 (twenty years ago)

I want this thread title to become the tagline for a sixth sense sequel.

― JimD (JimD), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 00:37 (twenty years ago)

You're just a racist sexist fuck: you notice non-white people more, and non-straight people moreso. Take a course. Jesus, it ain't the 1990s!

― paulhw (paulhw), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 02:13 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I'd consider the orig post more closely if it weren't my impression that the trans community isn't very well served by most support/awareness groups. Used to know someone who worked in the field and there were usually many fewer people of color at the seminars and less attention paid (in the form of discussion groups, workshops, etc) to issues of race.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 02:49 (twenty years ago)

Whoops! Meant to say that people of color in the trans community aren't very well served etc.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 03:06 (twenty years ago)

Transgender.

Dude. Why does that word sound so good? Trans gender. Transgender.

Say it.

Go on.

Say it out loud. "TRANSGENDER".

"I AM TRANSGENDER"

If you're in an office and there's people around, say it out loud, making no efforts to explain yourself. This will make me laugh.

― MESTEMA (davidcorp), Friday, 4 November 2005 12:54 (twenty years ago)

Take a course.
Spoken like someone whose entire world is school.

― when something smacks of something (dave225.3), Friday, 4 November 2005 12:59 (twenty years ago)

Jim D saves thread from being otherwise DOA.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Friday, 4 November 2005 13:26 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

http://www.sf360.org/features/LatinoFilmFest_Muxes.jpg

― gershy, Monday, 17 September 2007 07:08 (eighteen years ago)

To attempt to address the original question, I'm pretty sure that, historically, some non-Western cultures are more accepting of people who identify as transgender. In some instances there are traditional roles for them within the culture, rather than them being seen as "freaks"...If I'm not mistaken, in certain Pacific Island cultures, TG folk might occupy a sacred role; they are recognized as being healers, oracles; I guess potentially serving a sort of shamanic function.

― dell, Monday, 17 September 2007 07:37 (eighteen years ago)

Or mummy's little helper

― badg, Monday, 17 September 2007 07:53 (eighteen years ago)

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