Why

Transgender women of color have complained for years the issues and focus on the transgender community and movement was not just dominated but defined and controlled by white (trans)women. Now that Laverne Cox, Janet Mock, and others have celebrity status they decided they have the right to speak for all (trans)women.

If the vast majority of in-transition and post-transiton women (many of whom are stealth) don't accept the few out (trans)women, mostly white but not all, the right to define who they were or are as women (transgender optional), why should they accept women of color have the same right?

I don't see why any (trans)women would allow let alone accept another (trans)women to define them. They might agree on some of the issues facing transgender people, even I do most of the time, but I wouldn't accept any celebrity speaking for me.

It seems that some transgender women of color have chosen to do what they've long criticized white transwomen of doing. Demanding the right to speak for the many is color independent, it's all in the individual, and no one has the right or should take the right to stand up and say they speak for those they don't know.

I don't speak for you, so speak for yourself but not me.