It's Not 'Unwarranted Bitching' To Point Out Trans Peeps Weren't Mentioned In The POTUS' Speech

One of the snide comments that is coming from elements of the gay and lesbian community in the wake of the President Obama's historic speech and trans folks pointing out we weren't mentioned in the speech is we need to stop engaging in as this person put it, 'unwarranted bitching'.

Hmm, the rainbow scented cisprivilege is strong with you, isn't it? 

It's not 'unwarranted bitching', it's the trans community speaking an unpalatable truth that y'all GL peeps want to deflect by handing out rainbow flag wrapped white chocolate candy bars and trying to denigrate us for pointing out the obvious. 


Transpeople also spent time, effort and precious money in 2012 getting this president elected to a second term.

It would have meant a lot to the trans community if we had heard our president echo what Vice President Biden said during the campaign about the trans movement being the civil rights issue of our time or just acknowledging we exist in the 60th anniversary year of Christine Jorgensen returning from Denmark to New York.  .  

Rev. David Weekly also had this to say about the trans community feeling politically Left Behind again at his Sherman's Wilderness blog

I do not know the person who made this comment. I do not know what letter of the TLGBQIA population describes him, if any. What I do know is that I remember and participated in raging protests and marches with the gay and lesbian community for decades over similar frustrations about exclusion and discrimination. I have preached inclusivity in every church I ever served. I have marched in Pride parades, phone-banked for Marriage Equality, and protested and testified during legislative sessions in more than one state house. I listened to friends lament the secret support of other administrations, who hired gay and lesbian staff under a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. It was not enough for them, either. This time around, I am grateful my gay and lesbian friends have a President willing to claim them by name, out loud, and proud.

And this is my point. Friends are proud to name one another. Friends stand-up for each other, defend one another, and protect each other from harm. While I well understand the consequences of political fall-out from being too progressive, too inclusive, and too far ahead of our current culture; I still do not feel good about the word “transgender” being left out. This is not “unwarranted bitching:” this is grief.

Check out the post here.

Gay Peeps Need To 'Evolve Already' As Well

I hear vitriolic griping on the Net and elsewhere coming from elements of the GL community aimed at President Obama.   It's either because he hasn't wholly embraced their position on same gender marriage or executed their political wish list as expeditiously as they wanted him to.

Well, the trans community feels y'all have some evolving of your own to do when it comes to trans civil rights issues.

Gay males need to come clean about and evolve on your issues with transwomen.  As much as elements of the community have internalized trans hatred Jim Fouratt would be proud of, being trans is not a threat to your masculinity or your rainbow way of life.

Lesbians, and especially those of the radical lesbian separatist variety need to evolve from your disco era hatred of transwomen and the hateraid elements of you have for transmen that you have carried into the 21st century and to TBLG community activism.. 

It's so bad now a new generation of radical lesbian separatists has picked up the sword and shield of trans hatred and written anti-trans screeds in their blogosphere that would make Janice Raymond and Germaine Greer proud..  

The GL community as a whole needs to stop throwing stones at the African American community and complaining about what the Black community hasn't done for you rights wise. 

You're sitting in pink tinted windowed glass houses guilty of the same sin you accuse others of when it comes to the human rights of transpeople. 

You need to evolve already and get busy being civil rights allies of transpeople instead of civil rights oppressors like you've been since the 70's and sadly, some of you have continued to be in the second decade of the 21st century.