Privilege is not an identity
Email This Article I’ve always felt that the Achilles’ heel in
the transgender culture is one of class. First
off, there is education. I’ve often joked
that the thing that keeps transgender identity
apart from other trans groups is thirty to
forty thousand words. As in, a doctorate or
thesis. The language that transgender groups
have access to puts it in a group of its own.
Next comes the hormones, the sexual-reassignment
surgery (SRS) . You need to research hormones,
availability, side-effects, prescriptive routes,
approval process. You need counseling for
SRS, traveling expenses to different parts
of the country (or the world), bouts of unemployment.
In the modern day and age of the internet,
how would a transgender person out on the
street do this? Next, there is therapy. Therapy
therapy therapy. How much does therapy cost?
And what happens if the transgendered individual
does not have a job that provides coverage
for transgender therapy?
I can’t help but think of the underclass
and the working girls who are trans-identified.
What do you say to a person who does not
have access to one or all three of these transgender
privileges?
What can you say?