We need a community where Black, white, brown, non-binary, trans masculine, trans feminine and allies come together for a common cause, writes Burton.
Author Archives: Charley Burton
Charley Burton is a native of North Garden, Virginia. He is board chair of PFLAG Blue Ridge, a board member of Equality VA, and founder of the group Black Trans Men Can Cook. Burton’s memoir, The Boy Beneath My Skin: A Black Transman Living in the South, was published in 2022 by Transgender Publishing. He is a second-year student at Morehouse College and a public speaker with his company, Charley Speaks.
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To Trump, the Federal Executive Institute was ‘serving the Federal bureaucracy.’ Here’s what it was to someone who helped run it
Charley Burton oversaw janitorial and custodial services at the FEI, and tried to take care of his team when it was shut down.
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He used to sneak to the back of the library to learn about who he was — now this trans advocate has his own book
Charley Burton didn’t know what “trans” meant until his 50s, and he wants young people to find their voices sooner than he did.
