The Importance Of Hatred To A Transgender Community

What is hate? I mean, you would think you know the definition but it’s really hard to quantify the impact of that word; all emotions, love, hate, and sadness, are like that.. The definition does not match the feeling in the slightest. Hatred is something everyone has to deal with but in particular, transgender people have to deal with hate. Danica Roem is openly transgender and she’s a member-elect of the Virginia House of Delegates. In fact, she is the first transgender person to be elected to public office. I would love to meet Danica not because she’s an inspiration to members of the LGBTQ+ community everywhere. (which she is). Not because her victory over a self proclaimed homophobe who had been in office for 25 years and also openly disrespected her by not using her preferred pronouns and refusing to debate her in a predominantly red state is pretty earth shattering. (which it is). …show more content…
I was never very interested in politics, I like to follow the news and I know our current political system is broken on a number of fronts. I think Danica is going to fix that, not by public policy, I am confident that Danica is going to be a fantastic leader but she isn’t going to fix our problems that way. She is fixing our problems by being an inspiration to people everywhere. There are now girls who never thought they could run running thanks to Hillary Clinton. There are African-Americans who never thought they could run running thanks to Obama. Soon there are going to be LGBTQ+ people who never thought they could run running thanks to Danica.Since everyone reading this lives in New Jersey I just want to say don’t be surprised if you see the name Trent Tournour on the ballot one day. I started this by talking about how it is hard to understand emotion but there is one