Comments on: Black and Transgendered? Double the Suffering. http://dcentric.wamu.org/2011/02/black-and-transgendered-double-the-suffering/ Race, Class, The District. Mon, 16 Jul 2012 03:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: TONI NEWMAN http://dcentric.wamu.org/2011/02/black-and-transgendered-double-the-suffering/#comment-952 TONI NEWMAN Sat, 29 Oct 2011 18:53:00 +0000 http://dcentric.wamu.org/?p=4075#comment-952 I am african american transgender who has lived this life for past 15 years and yes even with degrees and mainstream work experience before i was transgender It has been a difficult journey.  Most of my friends from a decade ago are dead now.  I wrote about this in my book I Rise-The Transformation of Toni Newman in chapters 9 and 10.  Mainstream american discriminates against the black transgender then on top of that the black community discriminates as well.  Double discrimination is what I endured and had to keep preservering with very limited resources.  Most black transgenders lose their way and become addicts, homeless, and depressed.   A chance is all we need to survive and exist. Visit my webpage http://www.tonidnewman.com and read my book and hear it first hand from african american transgender. I am african american transgender who has lived this life for past 15 years and yes even with degrees and mainstream work experience before i was transgender It has been a difficult journey.  Most of my friends from a decade ago are dead now.  I wrote about this in my book I Rise-The Transformation of Toni Newman in chapters 9 and 10.  Mainstream american discriminates against the black transgender then on top of that the black community discriminates as well.  Double discrimination is what I endured and had to keep preservering with very limited resources.  Most black transgenders lose their way and become addicts, homeless, and depressed.   A chance is all we need to survive and exist. Visit my webpage http://www.tonidnewman.com and read my book and hear it first hand from african american transgender.

]]> By: guest http://dcentric.wamu.org/2011/02/black-and-transgendered-double-the-suffering/#comment-331 guest Thu, 10 Feb 2011 14:07:00 +0000 http://dcentric.wamu.org/?p=4075#comment-331 First, it's disingenuous to preach celibacy in response to a statement detailing the extreme desperation that leads people to prostitution as a means of survival. Second, what on earth does the anti-vaccine bandwagon have to do with this? First, it’s disingenuous to preach celibacy in response to a statement detailing the extreme desperation that leads people to prostitution as a means of survival.

Second, what on earth does the anti-vaccine bandwagon have to do with this?

]]> By: Anonymous http://dcentric.wamu.org/2011/02/black-and-transgendered-double-the-suffering/#comment-330 Anonymous Thu, 10 Feb 2011 02:20:00 +0000 http://dcentric.wamu.org/?p=4075#comment-330 "Our transgender brothers and sisters are far more likely to lack proper medical care, to be unemployed, to live in extreme poverty, and to be HIV-positive" The only sure way of avoiding HIV is to not have sex and not use needles of any kind, period. A tough call but its not like celibacy is a new concept and there are more people jumping on the anti-vaccine bandwagon everyday. “Our transgender brothers and sisters are far more likely to lack proper medical care, to be unemployed, to live in extreme poverty, and to be HIV-positive”

The only sure way of avoiding HIV is to not have sex and not use needles of any kind, period.

A tough call but its not like celibacy is a new concept and there are more people jumping on the anti-vaccine bandwagon everyday.

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