Today…or tomorrow (depending on where you live) is the beginning of Transgender Awareness Week (sometimes called Trans Action Week), which culminates on November 20 with Transgender Day of Remembrance…when we mourn the loss of those in our community who have been murdered over the past year.
The list is never short enough. Most recent is Shelley (Treasure) Hilliard of Detroit, whose charred torso was found on an I-94 service road.
The following song was written about Matt Shepard, but it certainly crammed its way in to my head when I heard Treasure's story.
Hey, FBI! Does this one qualify as a hate crime?
In the time it took me to type this up, Treasure has been moved from most recent. That "honor" now goes to Jessica Rollon of Bergamo, Italy, whose body was found dumped by the side of a road. The 32-year-old had been strangled to death.
Not even in Massachusetts
The Transgender Equal Rights Coalition released the following video of testimony by opponents last June to the Transgender Equal Rights Bill.
A society that allows and promotes sexual hedonism, and that is any and all kinds of sexual activity kills itself.
Being transgender is an act of sexual hedonism? Is it impossible for these people to conceive of the fact that transgender is about identity, not sex? Yes, I suppose it is. They are probably sitting somewhere watching "tranny porn" to get their freak on. And if they were one of us, in their minds, hedonistic sex is what they would be all about.
Well, thank the gods that they are not one of us.
The first day of gay pride in Massachusetts the sky fell in Springfield.
I did not see that in the news. Can someone give me the link? Is there a youtube feed of Chicken Little, Turkey Lurkey, or Ducky Lucky?
And what does gay pride have to do with transgender people having equal rights anyway?
What was the lesson of Chicken Little (one who warns or predicts calamity, especially without justification --Meriam-Webster)? It was about the dangers of fear-mongering, was it not? Don't allow the Chicken Little syndrome (a sense of despair or passivity which blocks the audience from actions) win!
This new law will open a new area and means of sexualizing and perverting children.
Is there somewhere a pedophile who is transgender? Probably. But if so, punish that person,not a whole class of people who are not pedophiles.
EIther that or show us the data that proves that we are likely to sexualize and/or pervert children more often than cisgender people.
These are grave concerns that we have. It is the bathroom issue that we are all worried about.
They like to say that they don't have anything against us, per se, which is pretty much a lie based on what was said above, but there is the claim that if transgender people are given equal rights, then anyone could use the women's restroom by claiming to be trans. Even perverts.
There are laws about perverts. Arrest the damn perverts already. But what sort of country is this…and what kind of a state is Massachusetts…in which one class of people are blocked from having equal rights because of the potential wrong doing of another class of people?
No, you don't have to tell me the answers. This is America. They like to claim that it's all for the public welfare, but the actuality is that it is driven by hate, bigotry, and ignorance. And meanwhile the multitudes will stand by with their eyes averted and let the maltreatment continue.
Action link.
One of the major reason why we can't get this bill passed is that even many GLB Massachusetts residents believe that we already have protections.
Surprise.
Did someone say bathrooms?
Most often, we're not allowed to use those.
Kyrgyzstan passes US on the issue of equality
Kyrgyzstan passed a level of transgender equality which is not yet available in all of these United States. Transpeople will be able to change their legal identities without surgical intervention.
This may signal an improvement in relations between the Kyrgyzstan government and its GLBT citizens.
Homosexuality is legal, but individuals still risk losing their jobs and becoming disowned by their families. Despite the progress, the rate of violence is still staggering: Labrys’ research shows that one in four LBT interviewees experienced sexual violence and were forced into “curative” sexual situations.
In 2008, Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on officials to “halt anti-gay raids,” highlighting an assault on the main office of Labrys. Police searched the premises and read private files without a warrant, interrupting a dinner party with international funders. During an earlier raid on Labrys, police threatened “they would rape everyone inside,” according to HRW.
--Care2
There is an action availability.
How far is it from off the bus to under the bus?
Three trans youth were kicked off a Spokane Transit Authority bus for having a conversation about bisexuality in public. The bus driver claimed that other riders would not find the topic appropriate. No riders complained however. Just the driver. The most controversial words they used were "queer" and "bisexual".