“My book is not about Aaron or my relationship, but that’s the most sensational thing they want to pull out. They’re not talking about my advocacy or anything like that, it’s just about this most sensationalized … meme of discussion of trans women’s lives: ‘We’re not real women, so therefore if we’re in relationships with men we’re deceiving them.’ So, it just feeds into those same kinds of myths and fears that they spread around, which leads to further violence of trans women’s bodies and identities.”
Janet Mock speaks about her experience on Piers Morgan Live. Go to BuzzFeed to see how this story plays out.
Shame, Piers!
As far as I'm concerned, if they say they are women, they are. Period. I remember working with a woman who waited for her son to grow into a man, hoping he'd understand her wish to be a man herself/himself... If you'd look at him She/he behaved like a man, almost an asshole, just the way she/he cruised the girls in the department. I hope, these many years later, that she has become an "he". Mentally, she was "there". Only her body betrayed her.
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