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sparkindarknessOur trans brothers and sisters are very much targets for abuse - and rarely are their issues or their pain given the attention or respect they deserve.
As LGBT people we need to recognise that all of us suffer and that all of us face hatred, violence and death - and we cannot let any of our stories, our problems or the abuses against us go untold and ignored.
Like always, we have to see the bad so that we can remember why we keep fighting and keep working
Stan Lansdell was a social worker for Bradford Council. Despite this essential and powerful position of trust and protection, he screamed abuse and hate at a 12-13 year old trans girl. The man seems to generally fail at his job as well - but to let hate take you so far as to abuse a child is unconscionable.
In slightly better news the Scottish Parliament has apologised to a trans woman for the terrible way she was treated. The sad thing is she was so treated in the first place - allowing a male guard to search a trans woman is not acceptable and no less intolerable or humiliating for her than it would be for a cis woman.
In Japan, 3 Filipino trans women have been arrested for “faking” marriages. These women would not have had to “fake” papers to show their ACCURATE gender if the law were not backward and discriminatory.
Facebook - if a man’s chest is not considered nudity under your rules then that applies to trans men as well especially since he is at a stage in his transition where his breasts have been removed. As an aside, I can’t really get behind the idea that a woman’s chest has to be covered but a man’s can’t anyway.
And in Michigan Rep Paul Scott lashes out at trans people for some easy bigot votes deciding to make it a priority to prevent trans people having their real sex listed on their driver’s license. Of all the petty small minded acts of spite - this will gain NOTHING for anyone in the state, anyone in the world - but it will harass and generally make trans people’s lives a whole lot harder. An ID with invalid information on it is just going to cause endless hassle everywhere it’s needed - to say nothing of outing that trans person every single time they’re called upon to prove age or their identity. Being outed is dangerous - it’s deadly and far to many trans people have been murdered for this to be considered anything less than a serious threat.
And a classic example of media fail a trans woman is killed in Texas - already showing how little trans’ lives are valued. But the media pulls out all the classic fail of victim blaming (she was found in an area frequented by the homeless and prostitutes as they are so eager to point out) and repeated misgendering. Gah, such lazy intolerance, such utter unwillingness to acknowledge another human being
Respect is not much to ask - and takes little to give. It’s grossly repellent that trans people’s bodies and rights are valued at such a low level - and how casual society is at making their lives as hard as possible.
As LGBT people we need to recognise that all of us suffer and that all of us face hatred, violence and death - and we cannot let any of our stories, our problems or the abuses against us go untold and ignored.
Like always, we have to see the bad so that we can remember why we keep fighting and keep working
Stan Lansdell was a social worker for Bradford Council. Despite this essential and powerful position of trust and protection, he screamed abuse and hate at a 12-13 year old trans girl. The man seems to generally fail at his job as well - but to let hate take you so far as to abuse a child is unconscionable.
In slightly better news the Scottish Parliament has apologised to a trans woman for the terrible way she was treated. The sad thing is she was so treated in the first place - allowing a male guard to search a trans woman is not acceptable and no less intolerable or humiliating for her than it would be for a cis woman.
In Japan, 3 Filipino trans women have been arrested for “faking” marriages. These women would not have had to “fake” papers to show their ACCURATE gender if the law were not backward and discriminatory.
Facebook - if a man’s chest is not considered nudity under your rules then that applies to trans men as well especially since he is at a stage in his transition where his breasts have been removed. As an aside, I can’t really get behind the idea that a woman’s chest has to be covered but a man’s can’t anyway.
And in Michigan Rep Paul Scott lashes out at trans people for some easy bigot votes deciding to make it a priority to prevent trans people having their real sex listed on their driver’s license. Of all the petty small minded acts of spite - this will gain NOTHING for anyone in the state, anyone in the world - but it will harass and generally make trans people’s lives a whole lot harder. An ID with invalid information on it is just going to cause endless hassle everywhere it’s needed - to say nothing of outing that trans person every single time they’re called upon to prove age or their identity. Being outed is dangerous - it’s deadly and far to many trans people have been murdered for this to be considered anything less than a serious threat.
And a classic example of media fail a trans woman is killed in Texas - already showing how little trans’ lives are valued. But the media pulls out all the classic fail of victim blaming (she was found in an area frequented by the homeless and prostitutes as they are so eager to point out) and repeated misgendering. Gah, such lazy intolerance, such utter unwillingness to acknowledge another human being
Respect is not much to ask - and takes little to give. It’s grossly repellent that trans people’s bodies and rights are valued at such a low level - and how casual society is at making their lives as hard as possible.