You may have noticed lately that the gop is working overtime to make the lives of trans people more difficult than their lives already are. The gop wants to kick trans people out of bathrooms, sports. 31 states introduced legislation. The military. Doctors offices. Antitransgender health care. And trans women especially are under threat at all times. Was shot and killed on an east dallas street saturday morning. Then those of you who know all thats awful call trans people brave for putting up with it. Trans people dont want to have to be brave. They just want to be. This week we are talking to black trans women in dallas, texas, about trying to just be. Im back in dallas, yall. Yay while we often think about the black Trans Community being in big cities like l. A. And new york, we need to see that black trans folks are everywhere. Even in a state like texas, where 70 of the population identifies as christian, and not just Easter Christmas christian, megachurch christian. That is exactly why its important to be here in dallas because despite everything, the black Trans Community here is out, proud, and insisting on living their best lives, whether you like it or not. So here is the word. Ezekiel 37 114. The hand of the lord came upon me and brought me out of the spirit of the lord and fed me down in the midst of the valley. And in that valley was full of dry bones. Listen to what they said. Our bones are dry. Our hope is lost, and we ourselves are cut off. Goodness, gracious. Dont i know something about that . As a woman of trans experience, dont i know something about that. Jesus. Preach, preach. I was reared in a very spiritual household. My dad was a bishop. My mother was a pastor. All i knew was church, and i grew up in a pentecostal background. We went to church seven days a week. As a p. K. Kid, as they say, a preachers kid, youre going to do something in the church. So 12 years old, i felt the call to minister. Oh, but when i was 16, the scriptures looked different. Even, you know, at that young age. Then my life was blessed, you know, to basically live outside the norm. This is the bible belt. Yeah. I dont know if this is the buckle of the bible belt, but its pretty close. Home of the megachurch. Yeah. When you say pentecostal, that is like one of the very i dont have to tell you fiery, brimstone. Yeah. Youre going to can i say hell in a church . What the hell . Youre going to hell. If you dont live like this, youre going to hell. Yeah. And i was 16, you know. I was a child, you know. Being in a strict household, parents very well known, but, yet, that was a decision i could not walk away from. It was life or death. And so by the time 16 came, i wake up, as my mother would say, and now she has a daughter. And how did your family respond . Oh, it was a challenge, you know. They didnt know what to do. Of course at that time this was 24 years ago, almost 25. There was no terminology. So they used to mix, you know, Gender Identity with sexual orientation. So, you know, it was always about, you know, im running around being gay. So it was very difficult for me to even advocate, to educate my parents. I had to withstand, you know, the rejection. I had to withstand, you know, if i dont get my life right, you know, youre going to hell. You know, god didnt make adam and steve. He made adam and eve. Im like, god made everyone. I dont understand that context that youre putting. You know, a lot of the churches here in dallas, around the south, around the country have a version of christianity that is heteronormative. Yeah. Even if theres women ministers, they are still participating in the patriarchy. Yeah. Then you step in there and preach. Does it always go well . Is it ever a challenge . So at the beginning, it was a major challenge. I will say that i am very churchtrained. I can feel that. You speak the language fluently. Yeah. So when i show up and i walk in, by the time i do the drop mic, its like, oh, when are you coming back . Ill be glad to come back because there are some people that want to learn. They want to take a closer look at that book. I dont believe those scrip turz was there for us to keep interpreting them the same. The scriptures allow us to be convicted. It allows us to be corrected. It allows us to be encouraged. It allows us to grow. You just invoked the bells. Wow. You summoned up the holy ghost. I can take this two ways. Thank you, lord, for the confirmation or, oh, no, were going to have this conversation. This is gods doing, and im very blessed. So im not going to have the conversation god made a mistake. I want my community to be bold enough to understand that god intended for them to be here in existence. Thats why they were created. And they were created for a purpose. Then the other piece is those that are looking outside in that were trying to recruit as allies, love your neighbor as yourself. Im pretty sure thats in the bible somewhere. That is in the bible. It doesnt say your cisgender heteronormative no. There was no terminology such as that. No it just said your neighbor. Your neighbor. Whoever is next door. Whoever is next door. In their fully realized form. The kingdom of god is going to be diverse, and i think its important for us to accept that and let us move on together. [ Bells Tolling ] you got too good again. The bells never ring when im talking. I must not be saying good stuff. Im trying to say some good stuff, but the bells like, no, no, no. Its kind of crazy to me that we live in a world that privileges folks based on how much they fit in. Mmhmm. Sometimes you are not supposed to fit in. Uhuh. Sometimes you are supposed to be that Big Glittery Ray thats just like, hey, yall are boring, you know . This is one place. You can come up here any way you want to. Pocahontas crow and ncx created house of rebirth for black trans women who dont have a home or cant go back home. A place that is part clubhouse and part sanctuary. I notice in here, its filled with clothes and not just like serviceable clothes. Like beautiful clothes. Clothes to make you feel better and feel like you can go out into the world. Right. Like clothes are such a big part of a persons, i think, transition too. I think its a beautiful time to be able to figure out what your style is. Oh, to experiment with, as you said, in the midst of some sort of transition, you may not know what it is until you see it. People dont think about folks comfortability going to shop, you know . Are you going to get help . Is somebody going to say, hey, maybe you should try this one. This might fit a little bit better. Theres so many things that i think people take for granted. Heres just a small sampling of things you dont have to worry about if youre cisgender. Being verbally or physically abused. Stranger asking about your genitalia. Having to go through a psychological evaluation in order to receive basic medical care. Having to endure laborious conversations about pronouns when your dumb uncle who you know understands but simply refuses because uncle maga wants to be an asshole. You identify as a cis. Yes. I think being a black cis guy, theres a responsibility, i think, thats there when we Start Talking about someone else who we might have a little privilege over. Yeah. And i certainly sprexperienc that privilege, im very used to and excited to be course corrected. I know i know more than the average person, but that doesnt mean i know anywhere close to enough. What do you know thats more than the average person, kamau . I can say cisgender and know what that means. When the persons Gender Identity matches the sex everyone assumed they were at birth. Easy. That puts me in 1 of people. Heteronormative. A system that teaches us that heterosexuality is the normal and natural way to shall. What else do i know . Nonbuy nar i. Gender identities that are neither male nor female. Can you say them no the correct format . Yes. You know whats so funny . Ive worked for this organization, and the h. R. Lady, bless her heart. Shes like maybe 60something. Shes like, hthey. Im so excited that youre here. They are a really beautiful person, and im really excited about them. And im like im standing in front of you. Hi, they. Yeah. It was cute, though, you know . I guess it was like effort. Effort matters more than i feel like sometimes just none at all. Cisgender heterosexual men like myself, theres the idea like if im not hurting anybody, if im not killing anybody, im doing enough. Obviously we can do more. What can men like me do better . Let me ask you. Yes. What do you feel like the Cisgender Heterosexual Man role is . I think the hardest thing to do is to tell other cisgender heterosexual men to shut up, to not let them, quote, unquote, Locker Room Talk go. Obviously theres things that could be southeaeen as harder, its easy to think im not going to get involved in this. Because its not Locker Room Talk. Its violence. People getting killed. Its violence in that when were able to laugh at somebody elses humanity being like taken away from them, that wasnt the physical act of violence, but it was the precursor to the physical act of violence because its on okayed in the minds of the person who might go and do that thing or the minds of the person who has a child who might go and do that thing. Its simple for you to reach out to your homeboy and be like, hey, that wasnt cool that you did that right there than for me to do it. Right. Mmhmm. Than for pocahontas to do it. It does matter, like, not only that you are not harming anybody, but also that youre proactively, like what we say, like being antiracist, you know. This turned into, like, an intervention, which i appreciate at, im not mad. This conversation needs to be had. Absolutely. I aint the letting you off the hook easy type. vo conventional thinking doesnt disrupt the status quo. Which is why tmobile for business uses unconventional thinking to help your business realize new possibilities. Only one 5g partner offers unmatched network, support, and valuewithout any trade offs. burke switch to farmers and you could save an average of four hundred and sixtyseven dollars on your auto insurance. Just by phoning it in to farmers. neighbor just by phoning it in . burke just phone it in. homeowner yeah, you just phone it in its great friend 1 im phoning it in and saved four hundred and fortyfour dollars for switching my homeowners insurance, too friend 2 i dont know what youre waiting for. 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I knew that there was something different. I began my transition in 64. I went to college, and i came out with a nursing lvn license. So i was able to get that money. Yeah. Well, you know, you had to do something. Of course, of course. To pay for those Neiman Marcus dresses. So i worked as a nurse. So at the hospital you worked at, you were at the hospital, i was sharon. Okay. And undressing, going back home with my family. Oh. Thats got to be stressful. It was. It was very stressful. I thought it was really, really time for me to be me. Yeah. I ended up in seattle, and a friend of mine came to visit. She had a nightclub act. She was a snake charmer, and she left, and she left the snake. She said she was going to come back and get them. But i had this 12foot anaconda and 6foot Boa Constrictor in my guest room. Long story short, i ended up with the snakes. Uhhuh. And developing my own nightclub act. Yeah. Im really working all over the country. Wow. And im lady shonda, the snake charmer. And now im opening for acts like mary wells, the barks. Whoa. Ike and tina turner. Ike and tina turner. It was really an interesting few years of my life. So from that point on, my life was my life, you know . You could be who you were everywhere. Yeah. Yeah. But i didnt want the Entertainment Thing anymore. I decided to move to the bay area. Thats like 76 maybe. Its on and poppin in the bay. Yeah. Theres still black folks in the bay. Oh, it was hey. So i just loved it. It was everything. Yeah. Now were into late 70s. At the time, we did not know what it was, but the Aids Pandemic was about to hit. Oh, yes. And that began my activism. Now there is a large Lgbt Community here in dallas. But unfortunately they have a lot to do in terms of equity for the Trans Community. Mmhmm. Theres a divisiveness in the lgbtq community. I love my brothers, but they forgot who made this this this Comfort Level that they experience now, who made that possible. Mmhmm. They forgot. Like so much of history, the lgbtq Liberation Movement in large part has been whitewashed, maybe white gay manwashed. Trans activists such as marcia p. Johnson and miss major Griff Ingracie are key figures who play vital roles in the organizing that activism that was happening before and after stonewall. History shows and has proven that the people at the forefront of the movement were black trans women. We were the ones who were arrested, who got beat with those clubs. We were out there fighting for rights for our brothers too, for our sisters. Mmhmm. Mmhmm. It wasnt about just us. It was that we were tired of our community being treated as thirdclass citizens. While things have certainly changed since ms. Sharons generation, black trans women are still fighting for their rights. And in the 21st century, if youre going to fight, you might as well have a podcast. Welcome back. If youre here for the first time, this is the third episode of all for one. The topic for today is dating. When we started, it was really important to me that we created content that wasnt just for us but other people who may not be in the community could relate to it and gain something from it. So when you talked about dating in the podcast, what are you talking about . Dating as a single trans woman in this country is a fool, a proper fool. So the hardest part is trying to find somebody today. Where did you all meet the people youre dating . They resort to Online Dating because you have that safety of distance. So you can give disclosure in advance, and if theyre not with it, fine. I can have that conversation. Am i a fetish . Are you wanting to date me . I just want that sense of normalcy when im dating. I dont want to feel like i have to explain myself to him, why im trans and why i do this and why i do that. You feel like an experiment. I dont want your first question to be what i have between my legs. You dont want that to be where the conversation starts, and im sure that happens sometimes. It happens all the time, not sometimes. You have to be really protective because theres going to be a lot of people who want access to you, and its not always good. Right. Right. Were more likely to get killed than anything. Because of the shame. You dont want people to know you like me or you cant understand why you like me. Youre saying about the shame, the idea there are men who are attracted to trans women. But like you said, dont know why or have shame around it. Mmhmm. How do you negotiate . Yeah. It works if youre like extremely on guard. Its not a matter of being comfortable with me. I need you to be comfortable with yourself. Because im going to exist whether youre in my space or not. Ok, at at t everyone gets our best deals on all smartphones. Let me break it down. You got your new customers they get our best deals. You got your existing customers they also get our best deals. 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I felt like she was gay growing up, you know, but she kept denying it and kept saying that she wasnt. So i never would have thought trans. I didnt see that. So when did malaysia tell you . One day we was coming from the store, and i was going to drop her off somewhere. She said, oh, by the way, im going to live my life as a woman now. And i almost wrecked my car. I said, well, how the hell you going to do that . I love the fact that she was in the back seat like a child. She got out of the car. She slammed the door because it was just a heated argument. By the way, can i have my Birthday Party at your house . And so on her birthday, she had a Birthday Party at home. She came in full oh, so she came to her birthday yes. I everngaged for a little whiled i had to go lay down. I come from a christianity background. As a parent, thats stuff you dont talk to people about. So how did you come to terms with it . It seems like now you it took a while. We had a roller coaster relationship. Mmhmm. She had this thing where, mommy, you got to start calling me malaysia. Im like, no, pierre. She would be like, i dont like that punk, that boy. Id get angry when shed say it. Talking about pierre, as if pierre was a separate person . Right. You know, when you have your child, they tell you, congratulations, its a boy, its a girl. Youre healthy and perfect to me. But to her, she wasnt, and that bothered me. Like what is it in you that you dont like about yourself . As though we was having this tugofwar, and she would stay away because she felt like i wasnt respecting her. And so i started missing my baby. This is my child. I love my child. So i would pray, am i missing something . Explain that to me because my childs sexuality is this. I cant hate or not love my child. So i started yielding, like, okay. You want to be malaysia, ill kal call you malaysia. But come home. Right. Hey, trey. Hey, boyfriend. Tell me about malaysia out in the world, out in the culture. She already had her platform on facebook because she had this thing she called story time that used to get on my nerves. Let the brakes down. And we let the brakes down. Anybody looking for a transgender wife . Malaysia was full of life. She was a character. So she just always would record herself going live, just talking. Hilarious. It was crazy how many people would be on their live watching her. You like this ombre. It was an accident too, bitch, because i put a little filler and i dont feel like wiping it out, right . I grabbed my lipstick and i just leave the middle part clear, and i had an ombre. Malaysia gave her this confidence. Pierre was timid, shy. Sometimes id be like, i cant believe its the same person. Being trans, when you finally just accept who you actually are and you live in that, you leave behind all the timidness, the shy, the scariness. You be who you are. Sometimes that offends people. Dont nobody why it does, but it does offend people. In april 2019, the world witnessed the violence trans women faced for simply existing when a video of malaysia being attacked and beaten in a parking lot went viral. Everybody in the world could see exactly how it goes, how trans women are looked at in the community. Most people dont really get to see what actually happened. They just hear about it. And then malaysia had the press conference, right . Uhhuh. This has been a rough week for myself, the transgender community, and also the city of dallas. I just felt like, just lay low, you know. Just figure things out. Which i think she kind of felt that way too. She didnt want to be the voice for this. She didnt want to be the face of the girl who got beat up on. Yeah. And theres a lot of pressure. Black folks in general, we get abused or brutalized, that pressure becomes the new face of the movement. This time, i could stand before you, whereas in other scenarios, we are at a memorial. I had a phone call early morning. I think it was like on a it was a sunday. It was monday morning. Just one month later, malaysia was shot and killed in another hate crime. I had so much angry when malaysia passed. I was angry at malaysia. I got angry at god too. I just kept trying to make sense of it. But bringing stuff to my remembrance, our malaysia would tell me all the time, Everybody Knows, she will always say she was willing to die for her respect and her transition. She said theres so much in it. It angers me to say it now because i was just like, are you nuts . But its like, you know how jesus came here and he knew what his purpose was . Mmhmm. So i just feel like when i look back at it, that was part of what she was supposed to do, to open doors. A lot of people have been beaten, killed, so im going to turn it into something positive. And thats the malaysia booker foundation, where families with transgender kids can go for muchneeded guidance and support. People get so caught up with the trans, but it affects the family as well. My baby girl, like she took malaysias death so hard. She really breaks me down because i see how much it affects her. At the funeral, she had said, i had a brother that i love. I grew up with a father who i loved, and i was later introduced to malaysia who i loved. That was my sister, and she means a lot to me. And she said that, and i was just like, wow. I thought about some of the times when we would get into it, and i thought about, like, im glad she wasnt alone. She can go cry to somebody who she felt understood her. Like when we into it, she can go over and be with her extended family. When she into it and mad at them, she run over here, mama. It takes a village. Right. I want to acknowledge a couple of people because malaysia has a lot of love from a lot of people. You can just look around. Heres the extended family. Could you all please stand. Thats jordan, t. J. [ applause ] she really touched me at the funeral when she told me and t. J. To stand up and she acknowledged it to the world that she acknowledges us. That was really heartfelt. I balled in tears because i couldnt believe it. To let the Community Know that its okay. Yeah. Everybody always remember this is your life. Dont let mthese mother [ bleep] control you and tell you what you cant do. Do what you want to do. This is your life. Ay it all off. It was an easy decision to apply with sofi loans, just based on the Interest Rate and how much i would be saving. There was only one that stood out and one that actually made sense and that was sofi personal loans. It felt so freeing. I felt like i was finally out of this neverending trap of interest and payments and debt. We cant make you leave your acne alone. But we can help get rid of the spots that your acne left behind. Differin dark spot correcting serum has the maximumstrength dark spotfading power you can get without a prescription. 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The community is not that big, and she was like a big part of our community. Malaysia was my grandbaby, so i was just like, after malaysia, it was like, this is way, way too close to home. Niecy was like, come on, pocahontas, you have to do something. I was like, girl, let me get through this. Let me get through this. You dont have a second. So we created a space. Yeah. It was like on the heels of malaysia being killed. Mmhmm. This house is personal, really personal to me. When i look at my baby, its like all my gay children, i realize if i dont do it, who going to take care of them . I ma id it to 36 years old, and what i can give yall to help yall to where were not out here getting killed anymore . The significance of pocahontas making it to 36 is important because the average Life Expectancy of a black woman of trans experience is 35. 35. Thats because the violence they face comes in all forms. Sometimes theres a law there to protect you, and sometimes there isnt. I can point out every day the way that the law fails people, and specifically people who are literally at the margins. Thats why we dont trust the law. Thats why we dont go to the law. The law doesnt protect us in that way. Diamond styles is the Executive Director of black trans women inc. , a National Nonprofit that is focused on advocacy and positive visibility. Ava torres smith carrington is an attorney focusing on systemic trans discrimination. If you are a black trans person and you apply for a job and get it, and you experience discrimination and youre just kind of like out of luck. Okay. You lost income. Lets talk about housing discrimination. There are currently 21 states with no housing antidiscrimination laws to protect trans people from being unfairly evicted or denied housing. You could go to a shelter, but then in some places, youre not guaranteed access to that shelter. Ive been through that where i couldnt go to a womens shelter. I couldnt go to a mens shelter, and i couldnt go to the lgbt shelter because i wasnt hiv positive. So here were starting to connect the dots, right . You have employment. You have housing. You cant even get to a shelter. The one thing i always like to think about is public accommodation laws. These laws protect lgbtq folks from being unfairly refused service or entry from places like restaurants, movie theaters, hotels, libraries, health clinics, and hospitals. And guess what . 23 states dont got em. Now youre pretty much getting erased out of society. Then youre more likely to be involved with law enforcement. Then theres a possibility of you going into the criminal legal system, and you can also experience discrimination in that space. So its obviously against the law to commit violence to another person. Its obviously against the law to commit violence against your partner. How has the law failed trans black women specifically . If im getting beat up by my boyfriend in my apartment, the police can come. He can actually weaponize my transness and say, thats not even a woman. Thats a man. Mmhmm. You can fight him back. And so now his response to my violence can be something totally inappropriate. He could leave and this man kills me or continues to beat me. Mmhmm. You havent done anything in regards to protecting me in a Domestic Violence situation. So i think the way that you got to do the work is work from the point of, like, who is actually experiencing the most violence . Who is actually the most oppressed . Who is actually denied the most opportunity . And working from that point is how you make sure that everyone can live and thrive in a society that feels a little bit more freer. Every day unilever does good for communities across america. Every squeeze every smile every drop every style every spray every bubble every day dove, suave hellmanns donate everyday products to local communities. 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There, in case you dont believe me. I started sewing actually when i started drag. Okay. I ended up making something for kennedy davenport. She ended up so then i ended up with outfits on rupauls drag race. I met alyssa, and then i sewed for ta a lot of people dont know the difference between drag culture and drag queens and being a trans woman. Right. So i feel like when you are a drag queen, it is more of an art form. It is more than expression. When you are being a woman, it is a lifestyle. You know . It is something that you wake up and you do every single day. It is who you are. It is not a constant. Theyre not selling it at party city. Yeah. Or you wake up every day as a woman. You wake up every day in your own skin. Im thankful that my mother is so proud of the person i have become, too. Have you two always been so close . Yes. Yes, always. Even more so after i became trans, to be honest. There is a narrative out there that the black community is more homophobic than other communities. The assumption is a southern mom like yourself would not accept a transgender child. How do i not accept it is the question . The question is not how do i accept it. How would i not accept my child . Thats the better question. That Birth Certificate reads me as the mother. This is a care that has moved inside your belly. This is something that you gave life to. Why would you turn your back on your own child when you have society already judging your child. If im going to hell, listen, im going to go there and im going to look fabulous. Im not going to let anybody control my life. You only have one to live and im going to live it the way im going to live it. I have nephews and nieces and, you know, people that im trying to give them something thats different to look up to. Im not crying. No. And i just want to make them proud. You know, tracy did a video recently. Oh, my god look at this video. Tracy is on tv. I said yes, it is. I didnt know you know, they looked up to their aunt tracy. I definitely thank god every day for my talent because i dont know where i would be if it wasnt for fashion just because i feel like there wasnt many women for me to look at in that form when i was growing up. There was literally only Jerry Springer and mauri and they were just literally exploiting the trans women with is it a boy or a girl . They were more fascinated with this than anything else. It is nice for girls to look out and see, especially a girl of color, being able to live her dreams. You got your existing customers they also get our best deals. Everyone. Gets. The deals. Questions . Got it. But, why did you use a permanent marker . Because i want to make sure you remember. I am going to get a new whiteboard. Its not complicated. Only at t gives new existing customers the same great deals on all smartphones. 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They may not have had an opportunity to finish high school, to go to college. They may not have had the opportunity to get that internship or to start that job that could have put them on the right track. Being trans, doors might be close to you that would be opened to other people. And very simple doors. If you want a job at that coffee shop, that door might be closed to you. Yes. There are many things that many of us take for granted. Yes. If enough of those doors are closed to you, you end up having to do survival work. Trans people are people. We bleed the same. You know, we cry the same. We laugh the same, and we deserve to live without fear of discrimination. You knew when to hit the wind machines because your hair was doing that while you were doing that speech. Maybe somebody would say, oh, i like that hair im listening to her. You know how it is. The neighborhood doesnt feel as welcoming. I have heard stories of black trans women being put out of clubs and being discriminated against. But you know this is a place you can go to and you dont have to worry about that. It is about to be lit. Whats up, naomi . How are you feeling today . Being able to come here and just let my hair down, i mean, i get to just be me, naomi or naynay. How did you come together . I joined the Scene November of 2019. They were the fem queens of the scene. How does gay family get formed . And why is it necessary to call it out as family. You can say, this is my friend. This is my mentor. It started in the 70s. A lot of people were put out of the house. You know, they were put out of homes. You had people who have been in the scene longer who would literally have to take people in to their house and ill take you under my umbrella. Ill make sure you have a place to live. It really started as that. She helped me through the avenues when i was in college and going through that. We had a house with it was so many of us. And she took care of everybody. She made sure everybody was where they needed to be. Its your chosen family. We all know that family isnt always a dna thing. Its also an i see you thing. But we dont all know having to find a new family because our bio family, the culture at large and the laws kick us out. Thats how it is when youre trans, but especially a black trans woman. These family bonds they form are strong and beautiful. We all need more family like this. Family who loves us, sees us and fights for us. Hopefully i can be the new cousin. Hi, welcome to all of our viewers here in the United States and all around the world. Thank you for joining me. You are watching cnn. I am robyn curnow. Joe biden on his next stop, and a look on tap in brussels, and Benjamin Netanyahus 12grip on power comes to an end. The u. S. Government looking into a possible leak at a Chinese Nuclear powe