Building Trust: The murder of Lashai Mclean highlights the best in our LGBT community � and what's lacking

Opinion: While ''LGBT'' has grown commonplace, the ''T'' remains not quite as fully integrated into the broader community. Just as commonplace, in my own experience, is a lack of understanding among the Ls, Gs and Bs about transgender people. I don't write that as some great sage who's a more enlightened member of our community. I think I still have my own considerable ways to go toward a better understanding of trans people and issues. I'm lucky, in a way, that I have a job that forces me to learn about other people. Most of the preconceptions and misguided ideas I once held have been changed by the simple act of knowing transgender people. I say this because I hope that at this moment in time gays, lesbians and bisexuals are paying close attention to what it means to be transgender in this city and this nation. ... (more)

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