Thursday, May 20, 2010

Ryan Murphy's Transphobic Hypocrisy

TransGriot Note: Ashley Love is one of our intelligent, up and coming trans community leaders as an organizer for MAGNET. She sounds off in this open letter posted on the Transforming Media blog about producer Ryan Murphy's transphobic blind spot after castigating Newsweek's Ramin Setoodeh for his recent 'Straight Jacket' article.

Here's a quote from Ashley's open letter;

Ryan, as a gay man who purports to be an ally of everyone in the LGBT community, (and I would hope that includes transsexual women as well, not just gay men of privilege), you are held to a higher standard of behavior.


Yes, sis. you are speaking serious truth there. Here's the link to the full text.

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