For background, read Lesbian Activist Decries Teaching Sex Change in Kindergarten while media cheer as Mother Plans Sexual Mutilation of Son
And also read 'Transgender Rights' Torpedo 'Gay Rights' Ordinance in Houston
-- From "Change.org Petition Wants to Take the T Out of LGBT" by Tim Murphy, New York Magazine 11/11/15
In many ways, this has been an encouragingly fast-moving year in terms of recognition for the transgender community, from Caitlyn Jenner to the recent decision by Governor Cuomo to extend legal protections statewide in New York. But the community is facing backlash, too, from feminists like Germaine Greer's not-"real women" commentary to Houston voters, who struck down a 2014 LGBT anti-discrimination law . . . And now a small number of gay people want to end common cause with them, too, putting up a Change.org petition demanding that several important LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) rights organizations remove the T from their missions.
Why undo such a long-standing coalition? "We feel their ideology is not only completely different from that promoted by the LGB community (LGB is about sexual orientation, trans is about gender identity)," reads the anonymous petition, "but is ultimately regressive and actually hostile to the goals of women and gay men."
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From "Caitlyn Jenner confronts protesters who call her 'an insult to trans people'" by Alex Ungerman, ET Online, Reporting by Brendon Geoffrion, CBS News 11/13/15
Caitlyn [Bruce] Jenner is receiving backlash from the transgender community.
After the "I Am Cait" star gave a speech during a luncheon in Chicago, Illinois on Thursday, she was confronted by protesters outside the venue. The 65-year-old former Olympian stopped to address one protester, who over the loudspeaker could be heard saying, "You are an insult to trans people, you are an insult to women."
Caitlyn spoke to a group of 1,000 people at the 7th annual Speaker Series luncheon for the Chicago House, which provides social services for those impacted by HIV/AIDS and other LGBT issues.
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From "The State of the Trans Community, Part 4 -- Allies or Adversaries?" by Dana Beyer, Executive Director, Gender Rights Maryland, Huffington Post 11/11/15
. . . not all women have vaginas or vulva . . . [Caitlyn/Bruce Jenner claims to be woman, but still has "her" penis.]
We have made great progress over the past decade decoupling gender identity from genitalia. On the one hand, it's easy, because gender identity is a brain function and genitalia are just genitals. On the other hand, trying to teach a society that has been raised for generations (millennia, actually) to believe that sex is nothing more than genitals, is extremely difficult. Because we have been successful, we have put ourselves in the unenviable but unavoidable position of dealing with bathroom panic attacks that stem from fears of male genitals.
Not that long ago trans women were assumed to have undergone genital reconstruction. No more penis, therefore, no threat that the male weapon would be used for predation, a fear that underlies transphobia. Not that there weren't many trans women who could not afford bottom surgery, or for whom it was medically contraindicated, or who just didn't care, but the cisgender [normal] population viewed trans women as postoperative trans women. As the decoupling began, initially targeted to include trans men rather than non-operative trans women, it became obvious to more non-trans persons, as an unintended consequence, that some trans women still had their penises, and that propelled the bathroom panic forward.
Politically speaking and being hard-nosed and practical, I will say that trans persons have no right to demand that language be changed to include them while alienating the vast majority in the process. . . .
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From "Gay man attempts explaining his 'Drop The T in LGBTQ' petition" posted at LGBTQ Nation 11/10/15
Gay/bisexual men and women just ARE — we don’t need medicine or surgery to help us become who we believe we are, which is the case with the trans community.
To take it further, the first is about sexual and affectional orientation, who we are sexually attracted to and who we choose to share our love with; the latter is about gender identity, and altering one’s body to fit what one’s mind believes it should resemble. They are two very, very different ideas, and the problem that develops when we are all under the same umbrella is that so many of our enemies see us as one and the same….
To me, the LGB movement, with its celebration of all types of gay men and women, such as bears, leather daddies, drag queens, diesel dykes, lipstick lesbians, etc., has always been about expanding and re-defining concepts of gender; the trans movement, on the other hand, appears to be about re-asserting and codifying traditional concepts of gender.
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From "The Rise of the Gay Bigot" by Kit Williamson, Advocate 11/13/15
Over the past few years, as we’ve seen such rapid, astonishing progress towards LGBT equality . . . Lately I’ve been struggling to understand why gay men feel so entitled to tell others how to behave, when so many people are of the opinion that we are societal deviants, no matter how well-behaved we are. Why are so many of us adopting the very same kind of oppressive language that has been wielded against us by antigay extremists?
It’s surprising how many gay men consider themselves arbiters of social norms and mores, as same-sex marriage has only held majority support in this country for a few years now. And that majority is still very slim . . . It is a particularly galling feat of hypocrisy for gay men, who have been on the outskirts of acceptable society for such a long time, to turn around and assert their role as gatekeepers so soon after achieving “respectability.”
There’s an audible “I got mine” mentality in [the “Drop the T” movement] that repulses me. Yes, I’ve seen exclusionary language from trans activists as well, and comments that seem homophobic or misogynistic, but it’s all symptomatic of the same problem.
Why should your opinion of what is the “correct” way to express gender, gender identity, sexuality, or religion become a mandate for others? . . .
Yes, the pendulum sometimes swings too far in the other direction; liberals can be bigots too. . . . I believe we can be sensitive and understanding of the experience of others without pushing political correctness so far that it becomes tyrannical and obscene. There is an obvious middle road we can take here.
. . . we need to be careful not to turn our passion and vehemence against one another; together we will all rise up, but divided we will all fall right back down to where we started.
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From "Gay Gestapo bullies transgenders" by Bryan Fischer, Guest Columnist, One News Now 11/12/15
An online petition, "Drop the T," calls on Big Gay groups like HRC, GLAAD, and Lambda Legal to separate themselves from the transgender community. . . .
[Petition excerpts:]
"The infringement of the rights of individuals, particularly women, to perform normal everyday activities in traditional safe spaces based on sex; this is most pernicious in the case of men claiming to be transgender demanding access to bathrooms, locker rooms, women's shelters and other such spaces reserved for women."To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
"Most troubling, by persuading parents and health professionals to diagnose children as young as four as transgender, despite considerable research that shows that more than 90 percent of children who express 'gender dysphoria' at a young age grow out of it by adolescence and, in most cases, grow up to be well-adjusted gay men and women..."
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President Obama Edicts More Transgender Rights via ObamaCare
Hillary Clinton Promises to Codify More 'Gay/Transgender Rights'
'Gay Dads' Get Christians Fired over Pretend Son
Transgenderism is a 'Delusion' According to Victims and Professionals
