Posts tagged: transphobia
Pastor Sean Harris preaches to his congregation, “The second you see your son dropping that limp wrist, you walk over there and crack that wrist. Man up. Give him a good punch… and when your daughter starts acting too butch, you rein her in.” This is a man who claims to preach the word of God.
I cant even begin to say what i think about this. Its appalling that this is advice from a pastor on parenting. I’m just….. like and it happens everywhere often. People are being told that treating their children like this is ok. It hurts my heart.
this guy is wicked.
Then Jesus called for the children and said to the disciples, “Let the children come to me. Don’t stop them! For the Kingdom of God belongs to those who are like these children.
Luke 18:16
This just made me physically ill.
Higher education has increasingly become an environment where resources like gender-neutral housing, campus maps of gender-neutral bathrooms, and “safe space” training programs allow young people to explore their gender and sexuality in safe and healthy ways. The University of Pittsburgh, however, took a defiant step in the opposite direction, dictatinglast month that transgender students could only use bathrooms and lockerrooms that correspond to the gender on their birth certificate, as explained recently by university spokesperson Robert Hill:
HILL: As this [policy] applies to use of facilities, a female who identifies as a male, or a male who identifies as a female, may use restrooms or locker rooms of his or her declared gender identity after he or she has obtained a birth certificate designating the declared gender. This practice applies to student athletes as well.
The only way that most states — including Pennsylvania — allow for birth certificate changes is if individuals undergo sexual reassignment surgery (SRS), a costly life-changing procedure that many trans people never intend to pursue. Some states do not offer new or amended birth certificates under any circumstance. And as Pitt junior Alice Haas has pointed out in her outspoken opposition to the policy, SRS amounts to “forced castration” because it results in sterility. For the university to impose such expectations to safely use campus facilities is flagrantly offensive.
Further, as Hill’s comment alludes, the policy raises particular challenges for student athletes. As The Pitt News reported yesterday, the NCAA has rules requiring transgender students be allowed to play on the team with which they identify provided they’ve simply completed one year of hormone therapy — but that rule does not cover lockerrooms. So under the current policy at Pitt, a trans student can play on the right team, but can’t use the right lockerroom.
The policy also conflicts with the non-discrimination protections in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County, which identify an individual’s gender by how it is lived and perceived by others. Pitt claims it does not discriminate on the basis of gender identity and expression, but it is essentially erasing an entire population of trans students who don’t — and shouldn’t have to — fit into an arbitrary mold of identity.
The shit hit the fan in the trans blogosphere last night, when it came to light that there is a disturbing new section in the Identity Screening Regulations used in airports throughout Canada. Simply put, Transgender People are Completely Banned From Boarding Airplanes in Canada.
The offending section of the regulations reads:
5.2 (1) An air carrier shall not transport a passenger if …
(c) the passenger does not appear to be of the gender indicated on the identification he or she presents;Although this obviously discriminatory smear of regulation did not come to significant public attention until very recently, it apparently came into effect on July 27th, 2011.
It is important to note that these regulations are not actually a piece of legislation, which would have had to pass through readings and votes in the House and Senate (which is probably why it went unnoticed until now). Rather, the Identity Screening Regulations are a set of rules implemented unilaterally by the Ministry of Transportation, as part of Canada’s so-called Passenger Protect, which is essentially the Canadian Federal Government’s equivalent to the U.S.’s “no-fly” list.
Minister of Transportation Denis Lebel is, of course, a federal Conservative MP appointed to the cabinet position by Stephen Harper.
So what does this mean? Well, in order to change the ‘sex’ designation on a Canadian Passport, the federal government requires proof that surgery has taken place, or will take place within one year. So for non-operative transgender persons, for gender nonconforming (genderqueer) persons, and for the vast majority of pre-operative transsexual persons, it is literally impossible to obtain proper travel documentation marked with the sex designation which “matches” the gender identity in which they live.
In the eyes of the honourable Minister of Transportation, that makes trans people unfit to fly in Canada.
It is interesting to note that this regulatory adjustment occurred immediately following the federal election in 2011. In the previous parliament, Bill C-389, a bill to amend the Human Rights Code to explicitly enshrine protections against discrimination for transgender people, had successfully passed in the House of Commons, only to die on the Senate floor when Harper declared a Federal Election (thereby dissolving parliament).
Is the timing of this disturbing and blatantly discriminatory regulatory adjustment merely a coincidence? That is up to you to decide. However, the negative impact on trans people is crystal clear, and we need to take action now.
What. The. Actual. Fuck?!
Rep. Richard Floyd is defending his bill to harass transgender people using public bathrooms. The Chattanooga Republican defiantly tells Andy Sher he’d “stomp a mudhole” (whatever that means) in any transgender person who troubled his wife or…
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST.What is WRONG with these idiots? That’s just INVITING more harassment and violence against trans people!
And the idea that trans folk are somehow coming for this shithead’s wife and daughters? The same kind of paranoid, sickass shit that’s been used to victimize POCs for centuries?Shame on this horrible excuse for a man and shame on everyone who has looked the other way on this!
What the actual FUCK is this and what rock did this bigoted moron Richard Floyd crawl out from under?
Scumbags like this are the reason why there are places where I am terrified to use to the womens restroom, because I know that as a transgender woman there’s every chance I’ll be attacked, either verbally or physically, by bigoted pieces of crap like this worthless imbecile who think that I’m not a ‘real’ woman
Sweetheart, you have more value and worth in your tiniest hair follicle than this person has in his entire body, and one day people like him will be forced to live in museums as exhibits, right next to the other dodos and extinct species.
I WISH I were as much ‘real woman’ as you are!
So there’s a website calling for a boycott of Girl Scout cookies because they admit trans girls.
Show these transphobic turds that we support and embrace the Girl Scout’s wonderful policy of inclusion and tolerance!
Report this video to youtube for it’s hate mongering…
http://youtu.be/Y514LSe8FWk
Support the Girl Scouts! Buy all the cookies!
THE ORIGINAL LIBRA ADVERTISEMENT EXPLAINED FOR PEOPLE WITH A TERMINAL CASE OF “NOT GETTING IT”.
Fuck you Lance. Fuck you Access Hollywood. And fuck you dude with your obnoxious “game show”
The fuckery starts at 2:19
Original here: http://dumbthingswhitepplsay.tumblr.com/post/13859336289/you-talking-back-at-me-boy-ive-lynched-your-kind-for
Please take time to report user noonegothurtyoushouldbethankful for hate speech and death threats by emailing support@tumblr.com with the subject title “HARRASSMENT” and link them to the above post.
Thanks y’all.
A more lengthy response to this:
I am black. I am trans. I am gay.
I completely understand that there is shit going on with fictional characters I won’t agree with. I watch anime, for chrissakes, that’s full of shit.
I didn’t even mind the “no lesbo” jokes, despite having identified as one for a long time.
But trans violence, against black trans women, especially, is too fucking real, in your face, and the vast fucking majority of LGBT violence to just wave my hand at this.
There are a lot of answers that I could have accepted from Issa Rae. I am generally okay with shitty people in fiction, as long as they aren’t promoted as awesome. I am even okay with heroines doing it.
But when your first fucking initial response to “um, this is really homophobic and transphobic and anti-asian” is “We aren’t politically correct”?
I get flashbacks to all the white asshole dudebros who scream nigger online all day and go “WELL EXCUSE ME I AM NOT POLITICALLY CORRECT AND ALSO I AM THE MOST ANTI-RACIST PERSON EVER!”
I don’t take it from white people.
I am not taking it from cis people.
The fucking end.
And you can eat it if you expect me to feel otherwise about it.
Amen.
