{"id":4287,"date":"2016-06-12T22:43:23","date_gmt":"2016-06-12T14:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/12\/7-ways-to-be-a-better-ally-to-transgender-women-of-color\/"},"modified":"2016-06-12T22:43:23","modified_gmt":"2016-06-12T14:43:23","slug":"7-ways-to-be-a-better-ally-to-transgender-women-of-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/12\/7-ways-to-be-a-better-ally-to-transgender-women-of-color\/","title":{"rendered":"7 ways to be a better ally to transgender women of color"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Https%3a%2f%2fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2fuploads%2fcard%2fimage%2f113391%2ftrans-women\" src=\"http:\/\/i.amz.mshcdn.com\/_s_tyhrmtvl4v7Fn9qZ13M7P5NA=\/575x323\/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F113391%2FTrans-Women.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=7+ways+to+be+a+better+ally+to+transgender+women+of+color&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F06%2F12%2Ftransgender-women-of-color-ally%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F06%2F12%2Ftransgender-women-of-color-ally%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>We need to talk about inequality in equality movements.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">It\u2019s an unexpected problem, and one that is especially present in the push for LGBTQ rights.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">The LGBTQ movement has <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/everydayfeminism.com\/2015\/10\/white-cis-gay-men-lgbtqia-mvmt\/\" style=\"line-height: 1.5\">long been critiqued<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\"> for focusing on white gay men above all others. Anyone deviating from that description often experiences tension in a movement that claims to include but commonly excludes them.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/10\/18\/transgender-ally-words\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">5 accidentally transphobic phrases allies use \u2014 and what to say instead<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>But there&#8217;s one group that especially needs attention in this conversation of misplaced focus: transgender women of color. Holding<span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">\u00a0multiple marginalized identities leaves them vulnerable to layered violence and discrimination, and that can extremely risky \u2014 sometimes, deadly.<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/06\/12\/transgender-women-of-color-ally\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/pride-2016\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Pride 2016<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/better-allies\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Better Allies<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/race\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Race<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/women\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Women<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/lgbt-issues\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Lgbt Issues<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<a href='http:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?iu=\/6692\/mash.to\/rss&amp;pos=atf&amp;tag=ad&amp;mtype=standard&amp;type=rss&amp;sz=300x250&amp;c=1465742099' target='_blank'><br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?iu=\/6692\/mash.to\/rss&amp;pos=atf&amp;tag=ad&amp;mtype=standard&amp;type=rss&amp;sz=300x250&amp;c=1465742099'><br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/EDqyaer4UQA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We need to talk about inequality in equality movements.\u00a0 It\u2019s an unexpected problem, and one that is especially present in the push for LGBTQ rights.\u00a0The LGBTQ movement has long been critiqued for focusing on white gay men above all others. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/12\/7-ways-to-be-a-better-ally-to-transgender-women-of-color\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3309,2334,3308,3310,1049],"class_list":["post-4287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-better-allies","tag-lgbt-issues","tag-pride-2016","tag-race","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}