Dee Dee Watters

dee dee watters: Trans Rights Are Human Rights!

Then I had the pleasure of meeting the remarkable Monica Roberts, who became my sister and one of my best friends.

Monica was big on politics and lit a fire under me about advocacy work. She truly assisted me in understanding the importance of things being on paper and the reasons why my being seen and heard was necessary in politics. She told me that when we don’t use our voices, we allow the bigots to say we don’t exist! If we’re not telling our stories, then who would? Some cis white person? Monica reminded me that if I spoke up for myself, I was doing it for all of us!