‘What they wanted was just to be treated as any other person.’
I interviewed several trans people this year. One woman had never told her family because they were so judgmental. It was only after her parents died that she felt comfortable living her truth.
In both cases, these people said that what they wanted more than anything from others was to be treated like human beings. They asked to be greeted as you would any other colleague or associate. They wanted others in their realm to be willing and interested in getting to know them for who they are as people. They longed for people in their communities to take the time to see them and talk to them and get to know them.
But then I had time to sit with all that they had shared with me. During their lifetimes, they had not enjoyed what some consider to be a simple privilege of humanity: being seen and accepted without judgment. They had experienced rejection from the people they loved the most. They had lost the ability to earn a living because employers or co-workers rejected them. They had lost the feeling that they were safe because strangers attacked them. All they wanted was just to be.
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