Saturday, June 6, 2015

Talk is cheap

The truth is most tranwomen of privilege talk a lot about the conditions and circumstances of transwomen in general and those less privileged or less economically off than them, but in the end, they don't really care enough about them.

They give speeches, even get awards for their experience and lives, but every night go home to their privileged lifestyle and enjoy a good life while all the rest of the transwomen in this country struggle to live, fight to exist, and try to get through each day.

There's a big divide in the transcommunity, very much like the rest of the country, between the haves and have nots, the 99% of transpeople just getting through life finding ways to get through their transition and get on with their life, and the 1% who talk about it and nothing else.

Talk is cheap when it comes to transpeople, especially transwomen, notwithstanding their race, ethnicity or heritage. Talk is what the transwomen of privilege find easy, because they don't live the reality of the rest once they've attained privilege, if they even had to attain because it was given to them.

Talk is cheap. As we've seen some come out to sell books, some for the spotlight, some to be celebrities, and some because it's the goal to be at the forefront of an issue without investing themselves in it beyond talking about it.

Talk is cheap. Just hear all the transwomen talk about it, but ask them what have they done other than talk, other than be in the spotlight, write books, give speeches, meet with the media, give interviews, etc., in other words, just talk.

Talk is cheap to the transwomen trying to have a life, but talk is what transwomen of privilege use to make a living on all the lives of the rest of the transwomen. Words pay the bills of the 1% but does nothing for the 99%.

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