I Repeat: Stop Using The Oppressor's Word 'Lifestyle' To Describe Our Lives

Using the word "lifestyle" is an attempt to diminish the essential nature of who we are. It's dismissive and reduces core identity to a merely whimsical choice which can be reversed or undone at will.

It was a comment that appeared on my Facebook page a few months ago that inspired a post on a subject that irritates me to no end.

One of the things I'm sick of seeing is conservafools and cis people using the word 'lifestyle' to either disrespectfully discuss or denigrate our TBLG lives or cluelessly doing so.   I'm getting tired of repeating this point ad nauseum in TBLG spaces, and especially in TBLG spaces of color.   

So let me make this abundantly clear once again.: It's past time we stop using the oppressor's language to describe our lives.   We do not live a trans 'lifestyle', we live trans lives.

So stop using the oppressor's language to describe our lives.   

You choose your friends, choose what clothes you're going to wear, choose what political party or sports teams you support or even what church you're going to attend.   You don't choose to be trans. You just are.

We need to be pointing out that trans rights are human rights.   We are human beings and citizens of this country and the various nations of the world that we inhabit, and we had about as much 'choice' in being trans as you detractors and haters had in being cis or heterosexual.

One of the things incumbent upon us trans people is to get over the shame and guilt issues about being trans men and women.  There is nothing wrong or sinful with us being transgender human beings.   We are part of the diverse mosaic of human life and it was part of the genetic cards we were dealt. 

So yes, let's start celebrating, showing pride and loving ourselves enough to proclaim that we live trans lives, not a 'lifestyle'.  Those people in our community who use that word in intra community conversation or on the Net we need to say this to them with all the Kingian love we can muster until they stop doing so.  

For those people outside our community who maliciously aim that lifestyle' word at us, they get called out and verbally pimp slapped for it.  Inside our community, the onus is on us to cease and desist in describing our trans lives as a 'lifestyle.

You Don't Like The Effects WWBT's, Don't Produce The Cause

One of the reasons I love Parliament-Funkadelic's music so much is because there was a lot of truth in many of the songs they wrote and produced back during the 70's and 80's that touched on social issues. 

One of those truths was echoed in a Funkadelic song entitled 'If You Don't Like The Effects, Don't Produce The Cause'

Lately the WWBT's have been crying white women's tears all over the Net because their 'widdle' pearl clutching feelings have been hurt because I and others have been relentless in not only exposing their racist and exclusionary agenda, making fun of them, and at times pimp slapping them back with the same ferocity of rhetoric they have hurled at others.

They have had their Two Minute Hate on for me and those people who confront them ever since.

Doubleplusgood then.

If y'all don't like the effects of being called the Transsexual Taliban, Transsexual Borg, WWBT's, the Tea Trans Klan and my personal favorite ubermenschen, then you and your transsexual separatists need to stop producing the cause.   I and the rest of the community aren't calling y'all out and whacking y'all with these sobriquets for nothing as much as y'all would like to pimp that lie.  We are reacting to your continued nekulturny actions and jacked up sellout behavior.

You are the ones that for years have using radical feminist language against other transpeople, advocating they get cut out of civil rights coverage, demonizing your opponents, trying to redefine the transsexual definition so it benefits you only and now you're crying white women's tears because you can't take what you've been dishing out for years?

What, you girls were that hooked on your whiteness and white privilege to believe that you could and would be able to continue doing that indefinitely without getting the inevitable pushback from the people you aim your crap at and who are beyond sick and tired of it?

I don't think so.  Moni don't play that, and neither do the folks you've been aiming your lies and your electronic brownshirt tactics at.   Buy a vowel, get a clue, and stop hatin'

And I repeat.  If you don't like the effects WWBT's, don't produce the cause.

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Black Transwomen Are Fed Up

I and legions of Black transwomen, no matter our age, are tired of the memes deployed against us that all we want to do is party, escort and have sex.  

We have people who take our roles as African descended transwomen seriously.  There are those of us who wish to and are eager to accept the challenge of leadership in this community.   We have people who thirst for knowledge.   There are African descended transwomen who are smart and capable of deep philosophical thought..  

And we know that we are beautiful inside and out.


Many of us are well aware of the drama we willingly accepted when we transitioned into our female bodies in terms of the sexism and other issues unique to navigating life in a feminine gender role.  But by doing so that didn't mean we forfeited our status as African descended people or our humanity while doing so.

And now, after a difficult 2011 which has seen more of our transsisters dying, others being shot at by people with and without badges and disrespected by one of our legacy organizations, let me state boldly that we're fed up with this crap.  

It's nation time Black transwomen!  

If we're fed up with the status quo situation that is deleteriously affecting us, it's past time for us to demand that our humanity and the human and civil rights that go with it are recognized respected and protected.  

We are tired of taking the brunt of along with our Latina sisters of this community's anti-trans violence casualties.  We are tired of shedding our blood and tears for our lost sisters but not having a major say in setting the policy directions of or being recognized as leaders in the trans rights movement. 

As Eldridge Cleaver said in 1976, "You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman."

And class is now in session.

You will not be allowed to trample over our human rights any longer.   You will not use us for target practice or think you can hit us with impunity.  You will not walk around with the presumption that you can murder or sexually assault us without legal repercussions.  You will not be allowed any longer to oppress our civil rights without being called on it.   You will not be allowed to erase us from everyday life just to perpetrate the fiction that we don't exist.   You will not deny us a place at the African American family table and every other human rights one we interact with and by right get to sit at..

This is not up for negotiation or debate because we've had enough of being marginalized, erased, denigrated and disrespected inside and outside the TBLG community  

Class dismissed.