Last week Rupaul said during a interview on "WTF with Marc Maron" embed below...
"No, no no its not the transsexual community. These are fringe people who are looking for story lines to strengthen their identity as victims." When asked about who objected to his cavalier use of 'tranny'.
Rupaul violatied the spirit, if not the letter of the appology and promise made by his employer, when Logo removed the defamatory "Shemail" episodes.......
“thanking the community for sharing their concerns.” Further, the network announced that it has expunged the “She-Male” challenge from all platforms and will eliminate the “You’ve Got She-Mail” segment for future episodes. A representative for Logo added, “We did not intend to cause any offense, but in retrospect we realize that it was insensitive. We sincerely apologize.”
There is sort of a communion within the transgender community, respected by most, even those who don't believe in the umbrella. We have a unspoken credo, do no harm. Even if we are deeply offended or disagree, speak freely but do so in a way that doesn't inflict injury That can be difficult at times because we are in what I see as an adolescence, the CDDTIQA community, transitioning to adulthood, earning respect from one another and in the process the world as a whole.
Two spirits, transgender, transsexual, Intersex, Questioning, Asexual, Cross Dressers and Drag among others...
Arguably, drag queens have a place under the trans umbrella. Most artists are great people but then there's Rupaul.
Rupaul, a self proclaimed cisgender gay man said some highly offensive things last week. Clearly, there's no longer a place under the transgender umbrella for Rupaul.
Marc Maron asked Rupaul on his podcast Wednesday about the most recent flare up over gay's using tranny. I assume Maron was alluding to the Australian transgender community's request that gay men use remove the defamation 'tranny' from "Tranny Bingo" or could it be his unwillingness to learn from Neil Patrick Harris, Lance Bass, and Kelly Osbourne?. Or perhaps his belief that the difference between a trans person and a drag queen is $25,000 and a good surgeon?. Or could he have been asking in reference to his employer's reaction to his trans defamation?
Whatever his reasons Rupaul went on the attack telling him it wasn't the trans community who are upset over his defamation. It was a 'fringe element' looking to reinforce their 'victimhood'. Rupaul could not have said a single more offensive thing than that.
"No, no no its not the transsexual community. These are fringe people who are looking for story lines to strengthen their identity as victims."
Rupaul continues "recently my show got into a..these are four people who have a wifi connection sit behind a computer in god knows where and deliberately misinterpret our verbiage and decide we're ah, you hurt me." Then in his best mealy mouth weaselly voice. "We didn't do anything to hurt you that's how you decided to interpret it."
Last year Rupaul screamed bloody murder when Amanda Bynes called the writers at people magazine FAGGOTS. Of course Huffpost GAY came to his defense....
So why are trans people so upset and what would we have LOGO do?
Continued at planetransgender.blogspot.....