We Face A Lot Of Discrimination, But Is It…

…Like an immigrant faces?

That is the question asked in a New York Times article.

Is Being Trans Like Being an Immigrant?
Both involve a journey. And both are under assault by this administration.
By Jennifer Finney Boylan
April 3, 2019

Last week, a 9-year-old American citizen, Julia Isabel Amparo Medina, was detained at the Mexican border for 30 hours. Although she had made the trip every school day from her home in Tijuana, Mexico, to school in California, authorities claimed they could not identify her.

Back in January, two British women angrily accosted the human rights activist Sarah McBride after a conference that had brought together members of Congress and the parents of transgender youth. The women, members of a group that denies the humanity of transgender people, referred to Ms. McBride with male pronouns and accused her of championing rape and the erasure of lesbians.

On the surface, it might seem as if the detention of Julia and the cruelty of transphobes is unrelated. But both hatreds, in fact, rise from the same dark spring.
[…]
Comparing the trans experience to those of other marginalized groups is awkward, and not least because gender and race and poverty have different, if entwined histories. We conflate them at our peril.

Still, the narrative of migration can provide a helpful metaphor for the lives of some trans folks. This isn’t true for all of us, to be sure. But for someone who transitioned midlife, like me, it works pretty well.

It is called “Intersectionality” where people are faced with multiple sources of oppression such as their race, class, gender identity, sexual orientation, and religion. In other words if you are trans and an immigrant you are going to face more discrimination than someone born here.

What the world needs now is not more walls — to keep out the strange, the different, the new. What the world needs now is not hatred — of men, of women, of anyone in between.

What the world needs now is bridges: across rivers, across genders, across every last border that divides us, one soul from another.

The article cites the source of the article on the trans girl…

9-year-old girl detained at border for 30 hours despite being U.S. citizen
The Santa Fe New Mexican
By Matt Stevens New York Times
March 23, 2019

A 9-year-old U.S. citizen was detained at a Southern California border checkpoint for more than 30 hours this week while authorities said they worked to verify her identity.

The girl, identified by NBC 7 San Diego as Julia Isabel Amparo Medina, had been making her daily commute from Tijuana, Mexico — where she and her 14-year-old brother, Oscar, live — to school in San Ysidro, Calif., on Monday, the news station said. Because traffic was moving slowly, Julia and Oscar opted to walk across the border rather than wait in the car and risk tardiness, according to NBC 7, which first reported the story.

In an email Friday, a Customs and Border Protection spokesman said two children arrived at one of the San Ysidro port of entry facilities for pedestrians at 10:15 a.m. Monday. The children, whom the spokesman did not identify, presented a CBP officer with U.S. passport cards, according to the spokesman, Ralph DeSio.

“The younger child provided inconsistent information during her inspection, and CBP officers took the 9-year-old into custody to perform due diligence in confirming her identity and citizenship,” DeSio said.

Yeah… inconsistent information! The passport was with her male identity and she was presenting as female and the extremely intelligent border patrol officers couldn’t figure out that she was trans.

Eventually, border agents confirmed that the teenager was a U.S. citizen, and he was permitted to enter the country, DeSio said. Then, around 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, the 9-year-old girl was admitted to the United States and released to her mother after authorities confirmed her identity and her citizenship, DeSio said.

It took them more than a day to figured out she’s trans.

This was downright bigotry! This is nothing more than harassment.