'Let's Get Past The Anger' My Azz

One of the things I'm really getting sick of is hearing people say this spin line when it comes to the Equal Sign Org.  I've been hearing this far too frequently in online discourse, chatter in the trans community and at various trans themed events.

Let's get past the anger.

Oh really?  Easy for you to say.   It's not your human rights that are being trampled on a regular basis. It's not your people who are being shot at, beat up, disrespected, killed, vilified, and memorialized every November 20 while the people who are whispering "let's get past the anger" are doing so in support of an organization who has been more of a trans oppressor than a trans ally.

Those protests at the 2007 and 2008 HRC dinners were the direct action expressions of the trans community being pissed off at you, and we are still in Public Enemy Can't Truss It mode when it comes to you peeps at Rhode Island Ave, NW.

To paraphrase a line from Malcolm X's 1964 'The Ballot or the Bullet' speech:

Speaking like this doesn't mean we're anti-gay.  What it does mean is that were anti-exploitation, anti-degradation and anti-oppression.

And yeah, we transpeople have had enough of all three and then some.

There's a major difference in prudently not trusting people and an organization who has backstabbed you repeatedly over two decades and being pissed off at them.  It's past time people stopped trying to obfuscate the two and spin it as 'anger'.