The Story of A Transgender Pianist — Sara Davis Buechner
January 3, 2010 38 Comments
How do you judge someone? By the talent, or by the race or gender?
As much as we would like to think that we’re open-minded enough to judge people by their abilities rather than the gender or race, but the fact is when I tell you someone is an Indian women and you will have the stereotype of the person being a housewife at a remote village rather than a manager of a well known company.
And now, picture yourself a 50 years old transgender American. What came to your mind? Think about it for 5 seconds and picture that.
Now I am about to tell you that she was once a child prodigy, and now a very talented pianist that won numerous awards and performs over 60 concerts a year today. Did you see that coming?
But Sara Davis Buechner did have a time when she was discriminated and lost most of her jobs when she came out as a transgender during the height of her career as David Buechner.
This is a story of a transgender pianist that made her way back to the stage and proud of it. Read on.
