Sadie, Age 11, Asks Obama Why Inaugural Address Didn’t Mention Transgender People Like Her

[Karee 4,191]

This stuff is just getting silly. "Sadie transitioned from male to female in kindergarten."

Obama speaks speaks at a reception to observe LGBT Pride Month at White House"/>YURI GRIPAS / REUTERSU.S. President Barack Obama speaks at a reception to observe Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Pride Month at the White House in Washington June 15, 2012.

When Barack Obama spoke of "Seneca Falls and Selma and Stonewall" in an emphatic call for equality at his second inaugural address Monday, gay rights activists rejoiced. The Stonewall reference, a nod to the infamous gay rights demonstrations in 1969 at New York's Stonewall Inn, along with Obama's calls for "our gay brothers and sisters" to be treated equally under the law, made history.

But Sadie, an 11-year-old transgender girl, felt that the president had left a few people out. That's why she wrote an essay, "Sadie's Dream for the World," published on the blog TransGriot, where she explained the struggles that transgender people like her face.

(MORE: Being Transgender Is Still Widely Misunderstood)

"Transgender people are not allowed the freedom to do things everyone else does, like go to the doctor, go to school, get a job, and even make friends," she wrote on lined notebook paper in her fifth-grader scrawl.

Sadie transitioned from male to female in kindergarten. Though she’s been discriminated against at her school, her mother told the Huffington Post, she “isn’t shy or ashamed of who she is.”

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For transgender people, it's important to make their fight for equality recognized, and ultimately, achieved. Mark Snyder, communications manager for the San Francisco-based Transgender Law Center, told TIME that it would have only helped the transgender cause if Obama had mentioned the community by name.

"Transgender people and gender nonconformtinuinary barriers to accessing healthcare, employment, and basic safety," Snyder says.

(MORE: Tom Gabel of Against Me! Comes Out as Transgender)

Although transgender people weren't included in the ina, tdm has made a slew of advances for their rights, American Civil Liberties Union legislative representative Ian Thompson told TIME. Last year,dorsed tNondiscrimination Act, an anti-bullying bill that would prohibitdiscrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity in public elementary and secondary schools. And after a landmark ruling, the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission now protects transgender employees from discrimination.

Thompson says that the transgender community should celebrate Obama's address as a step in the right direction in their fight for equality.

"It's important to look at the speech in historical context," he says. "It would not have even been imaginable four years ago."

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stfu, sadie

[Penny Lane 8,159]

What part is the silly part?

[Karee 4,191]

What part is the silly part?

All of it actually, but especially this part:

Sadie transitioned from male to female in kindergarten. Though she’s been discriminated against at her school, her mother told the Huffington Post, she “isn’t shy or ashamed of who she is.”

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

He didn't mention TGs because he's an incosiderate #######. Everyone knows that.

[Karee 4,191]

He didn't mention TGs because he's an incosiderate #######. Everyone knows that.

[Penny Lane 8,159]

All of it actually, but especially this part:

Sadie transitioned from male to female in kindergarten. Though she’s been discriminated against at her school, her mother told the Huffington Post, she “isn’t shy or ashamed of who she is.”

You think it's silly that at that age, she felt more like a girl than a boy?

Or do you think it's silly that her parents decided that, instead of risking harming her by acting like she was a freak of nature, they let her "transition"? Which, at that age, is what? A girl name and girl clothes, likely.

It might be just a phase for Sadie. But she's 11 now, so maybe not.

Either way, if this is truly how Sadie feels, I think she should be embraced and not forced to feel something she simply doesn't.

But this topic always turns into a train wreck, so that's probably all I'll say about it.

Edited January 24, 2013 by Evylin

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sadie needs to stfu and let the elders in her life do their own political advocacy. stop being used, sadie. you're a kid. enjoy your childhood. you have all your life to be a resentful whiner.

[Karee 4,191]

You think it's silly that at that age, she felt more like a girl than a boy?

Or do you think it's silly that her parents decided that, instead of risking harming her by acting like she was a freak of nature, they let her "transition"? Which, at that age, is what? A girl name and girl clothes, likely.

It might be just a phase for Sadie. But she's 11 now, so maybe not.

Either way, if this is truly how Sadie feels, I think she should be embraced and not forced to feel something she simply doesn't.

But this topic always turns into a train wreck, so that's probably all I'll say about it.

I felt like driving an 18-weeler when I was 5. My a$$hole parents wouldn't allow it. Now I'm ruined for life.

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I felt like driving an 18-weeler when I was 5. My a$$hole parents wouldn't allow it. Now I'm ruined for life.

Every time you set foot in that Toyota Corolla, it just feels wrong. Like you were meant to be driving something else but you're stuck in a Corolla. I feel you dude. It sucks!

[Penny Lane 8,159]

I felt like driving an 18-weeler when I was 5. My a$$hole parents wouldn't allow it. Now I'm ruined for life.

Yes, that's a very logical and absolutely accurate comparison. Spot on.

[Karee 4,191]

Jesus, it gets better:

Sadie socially transitioned from male to female in kindergarten. She was home schooled until this year and is now in fifth grade and attending public school. A vegan, she loves anything that "protects the environment," as well as reading, swimming, basketball and texting her friends. She listens to Lady Gaga, Pink and Justin Bieber and wants to work for Green Peace when she grows up. She also wants to be a mom.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/23/transgender-girl-obama-speech_n_2533298.html?utm_hp_ref=tw#slide=more276363

[Penny Lane 8,159]

Jesus, it gets better:

Sadie socially transitioned from male to female in kindergarten. She was home schooled until this year and is now in fifth grade and attending public school. A vegan, she loves anything that "protects the environment," as well as reading, swimming, basketball and texting her friends. She listens to Lady Gaga, Pink and Justin Bieber and wants to work for Green Peace when she grows up. She also wants to be a mom.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/23/transgender-girl-obama-speech_n_2533298.html?utm_hp_ref=tw#slide=more276363

She sounds like such a horrible child. Someone lock her up because people think she's silly and she's making them uncomfortable.

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She wants to be a mom

[Penny Lane 8,159]

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She wants to be a mom

Only women who are physically able to give birth should call themselves a mother. Guess she didn't learn that in her homeschooling days.