Through the Gateway: Promulgating Change
I was looking back and reviewing the recent Laverne Cox cover on the upcoming issue of Time Magazine and in awe of this as a yet another marker of how far we have come in transgender issues within even the past year. We are finding, as transgender individuals, increased visibility within the greater world from all that we are doing.... each and every one of us who proudly herald and proclaim our own sense of self. The people we touch, whether it be one or one hundred thousand, makes little difference.... because together we ARE bringing light to where there was once only myth, fable and darkness. I see Laverne Cox as one of a select few individuals who are as I would call as "keystones" in a gateway to understanding. She, like many of the popular transgender role models today, fit easily into the "gender binary box". This is to say that they fit with physical characteristics into either a very male or very female box. Many of our transgender role models tod