Butterfly Music Transgender Chorus Analysis

In her article “Art Talk with Sandi Hammond of the Butterfly Music Transgender Chorus” by Paulette Beete, she introduces Sandi Hammond, Choral director, composer and former singer that creates a new transgender chorus with the intentions of helping and creating a safe place for transgender singers to find their voice, figuratively as well as literally.(1) Author states, Hammond’s degree in music, her needs for doing something meaningful in her life, and her previous friendship with a trans-male inspired her to discover and resolve the issues that the transgender singers were facing. Hammond claims her transgender chorus changed the way people thought about the transgender community in the positive direction and that she was able to help them …show more content…
It is clear that Hammond’s exaggeration was meant to obfuscate the trusting readers to believe there is a magnificent change in the transgender community. I can not and will not repudiate the fact that Hammond deeds were to help, support and make a safe place for transgender singers. Hammond states “ I had a deep need to use my degree in meaningful way” (1). In the article Hammond in her own words describes how really she feels about transgender singers “here’s Hammond on the unique needs of transgender singers and why the chorus is just as valuable to the larger community as it is to the transgender community” (1). It shows she understands the values that transgender singers can have and she is determined to make changes. “ I had a trans-male singer, decade ago, and it stayed with me” (Hammond 1). Having a transgender friend can help to understand the hardship they are going through. I can see Hammond's deeds were out of sympathy, but not empathy. According to the author Hammond was cisgender herself, so she was not able to experience exactly how a transgender person feel in the …show more content…
I was not a Muslim so I did not have a right to study in the university and also it was extremely difficult to find friends. I remember my father always encouraged me to go out and socialise with everyone regardless of their religion. Leaving in a country that ninety percent of them are Muslim it is hard to find someone with the same interests as me but still my father insist, because he knew if I isolate myself I wouldn't be able to find any friend and society wouldn't come after me to make friends. And he was correct regardless of my religion, I found many Muslim friends that we are still in contact. Hammond states that she was able to change the stigma of the transgender community by creating a chorus just for transgender singers (Hammond 4). Isolating transgender singers may help their members to find more transgender friends, but it will not change how some other cisgender people think about them. Hammond desire to help the transgender community was successful in certain extent, but it was not enough to help all transgender people in all over the world. However her action shows if anyone wants to make a difference and help other people they