From Representation to Erasure: Black Women Once Again Used to Prop Up Transgenderism

Reclaiming Our Reality on International Women’s Day 2025

On International Women’s Day, we honor women’s struggles, strength, and achievements. But we must also face the forces trying to redefine and erase our womanhood. Today, as we celebrate women, the transgender movement is making another push to force the public into accepting gender ideology. This time, they are back to using the Black female form as their tool. And in doing so, they are also erasing lesbians by framing relationships between women as heterosexual couples.

Since 1977, when The Jeffersons introduced the first major trans storyline with a Black female actress, the pattern has been clear. The Bold and the Beautiful continued it in 2015 with the first trans character on daytime TV, played by a Black woman. Now, in 2025, the latest version of this strategy comes in the form of Jay & Pamela—a TLC reality show featuring a disabled, Black, transgender-identified female, presented as a man. This show is a last-ditch effort to keep transgenderism afloat as public support crumbles, using identity politics to silence criticism.

As more people reject gender ideology, the movement has chosen someone they think no one can criticize—a Black, disabled, transgender-identified woman. This identity shield is meant to silence objections by framing any criticism as racism, ableism, or cruelty. It’s manipulation.

Black Women as the Face of Transgenderism

This isn’t new. The Black female form has been used repeatedly to make transgenderism more acceptable. A Black woman was used to introduce trans identity to TV. A Black woman played the first major trans soap opera role. And now, Black women are encouraged—sometimes knowingly, sometimes not—to push the idea that opposing transgenderism is just another form of racism.

For years, trans activists have twisted the historical exclusion of Black women from idealized femininity into an argument for gender ideology. They claim that because Black women have had to prove our womanhood, trans-identified males should get the same validation. This argument ignores biological reality and turns Black women into mouthpieces for a cause that undermines us.

I’ve written about this before in Beyond Tokenism: Challenging the Exploitation of Black Struggles in Gender Debates. Black women’s experiences are hijacked to justify gender identity politics. Again and again, our image is used to make transgenderism seem more legitimate.

But Black women fought to be recognized as women because we are female. Not because we felt like women. Not because we identified as women. But because we were born female in a world that tried to dehumanize us. Our womanhood is not up for debate, and we will not let it be used to validate men who claim it as their own.

Jay & Pamela: The Most Subversive Example Yet

Jay & Pamela is the latest and most subversive attempt to erase and redefine womanhood. The show barely mentions that Jay is transgender-identified, allowing viewers to assume Jay is simply a disabled Black man in love with a disabled Hispanic woman. The trans identity is treated as an afterthought, only mentioned to explain why Pamela’s Catholic parents might not attend the wedding. This is intentional. It removes discussion of gender, presenting Jay as a man without question while framing Pamela’s parents as intolerant for not accepting the redefinition of reality.

By portraying Jay and Pamela as a straight couple, the show also erases lesbians. What should be seen as a relationship between two women is repackaged as a heterosexual romance. The LGB movement once fought for lesbian rights. Now, the “LGBTQ+” lobby works to erase them by redefining lesbian couples to include 'female-identified' males while excluding 'male-identified' females and the women who love them. Jay & Pamela is the latest example of how trans activism erases lesbian realities with male-centrism.

This is not an accident. It is part of a long-term effort to embed transgenderism into the Black and non-heterosexual communities by exploiting our images to push a narrative that undermines us. The method of presenting someone who is female, disabled, and Black, ensures that any criticism will be dismissed as bigotry.

Why This Matters—Especially Today

On a day meant to celebrate women, we must reject those trying to redefine and erase us. The use of the Black female form to push transgenderism is not just about representation; it’s about forcing Black women to validate the destruction of womanhood. It’s about making us feel guilty for rejecting transgenderism, as if rejecting it means rejecting ourselves.

We cannot let this happen. Black women’s struggles are real. Our identity is based on our biological reality. We are not props for gender activists. And we will not allow our history to be rewritten to serve their agenda.

We also must stand against the erasure of lesbians, whose identities are being rewritten to suit those who reject their own sex.

Jay & Pamela is not harmless representation. While it may be framed as a love story, it is also a propaganda piece meant to normalize the erasure of biological reality. And once again, it is being done on the back of a Black woman—at the expense of both Black women and lesbians.

On this International Women’s Day, we see it. And we reject it.