Monday, November 25, 2019

Are We Overachievers?

I sometimes think that all trans people are overachievers, that we want to show the world that we are not living in the dregs of society.
First transgender Rhodes scholar named in diverse 2020 class
Hera Jay Brown among the 32 selected in the program, in which minorities make up the majority of the latest group
The Guardian
By Associated Press in New York
24 November 2019

Minorities make up the majority of the latest group of US college students to be named Rhodes scholars, and the class includes the first transgender woman selected for the prestigious program.

The Rhodes Trust announced the 32 selections late on Saturday after two days of discussions over 236 applicants from 90 colleges and universities across the US.

Along with University of Tennessee graduate Hera Jay Brown, the first transgender woman in the program, the class includes two non-binary scholars.
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Rhodes scholarships were created in 1902 in the will of Cecil Rhodes, a British businessman and Oxford graduate who was a prime minister of the Cape Colony in present-day South Africa.
Everywhere you look trans people have a hand in the creative process, from science, to engineering, to the arts, and music.

What do you think? Are we overachievers? Do we feel that we have something to prove?

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