Roberts founded the news site TransGriot and covered transphobic violence long before the mainstream media did.
Born in Texas in 1962, Roberts came out as transgender in her 30s, and transitioned in 1994. She worked as an airline gate agent for 14 years, and switched into LGBTQ advocacy work and journalism after witnessing the transphobic violence her peers faced, and seeing trans murder victims misgendered by mainstream media outlets.
“I happened to be born at the time that I needed to be born in order to kind of set the table for the advances that we’re making,”last year. “Our rights movement is like a relay race. The torch got handed to me at a certain point and when it’s time for me to pass it on, I’m just going to turn around and hand that torch back to the next generation for y’all to advance — and then hand it to the trans kids behind you.
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