Cristan Williams is one of our kick azz leaders here in the Houston area and executive director of the Transgender Foundation of America. She was part of the team that recently got Covenant House Texas to come up with a written policy that mandates respectful treatment of TBLG clients.
So fresh off that success, she tried to dialogue with the WWBT's and their current spokesmodel.
I'll give you a taste and link to her post describing what happened when she attempted to try and reason with the 'transsexuelle uber alles' crowd.
I give up. I’ve tried time and time again to dialogue with those in the transsexuals aren’t transgender camp! Every time I try to instigate a dialogue, they flip out.
First, I notice that the TS-not-TG camp loves to segregate the trans
community into a TS/IS (IS = intersex) camp and crossdressers + everyone
else is into some other camp that can never be associated with TS
people. I thought that this was funny because some non-Houston IS people
freak out when TS people try to group TS and IS people together.
I’ve tried over and over again
to engage this segregationist group in dialogue and I guess today I
finally have had enough of trying to talk to them. They’re exactly like
trying to talk to a young-earth creationist fundi. Today, I once again
tried to reach out to this group and, for the last time, had the
door slammed in my face:
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