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Originally Posted by DapperButch

http://www.washingtonblade.com/2011/...trans-meeting/

I noticed that this apparently happened last spring, yet for some reason I've only been hearing about it here and others telling me about it this spring. So I'm a bit confused, lol.

Looking at some of the articles, it seems odd that there has been no follow up as far as what was achieved by the meeting. All it says is that they were focusing largely on ending job discrimination. But I think that even that agenda is ignoring the struggles of some of the most vulnerable of the trans population, namely trans people of colour, homeless trans people, other low-income trans people and trans sex workers. I guess I just don't like this "one step at a time" approach that always leaves the rights of the most marginalised to come last while the concerns of those with more social privilege typically come first, in the same way trans rights were forever thrown by the wayside by the LG community for decades in order to obtain LG rights. I really would hope that trans rights advocates would learn from that and lobby for everyone's rights, and recognising how desperately something needs to be done to keep some of the most marginalised trans people safe from violent assault and sexual assault.

So does anyone know anything further about what was on the table at this meeting? Nothing seems to have been said in its aftermath. It came as a "symbolic marker" and went without much talk of it, or so it seems.