Was over at Dented Blue Mercedes and just had to link to the post in which Beth Elliot pwned the unjust anti-trans UN paper that radical lesbian trans oppressors Brennan and Hungerford wrote to the UN.
Beth penned a rebuttal to their unjust UN paper that would have deleterious effects on worldwide trans human rights
Honorable Commissioners,
I write in regard to the CSW Communications Procedure submission of
1 August by Cathy Brennan and Elizabeth Hungerford alleging that gender
identity anti-discrimination statutes in the United States threaten to
violate women’s rights. Specifically, I write in response and rebuttal
to those allegations.
Ms. Brennan and Ms. Hungerford’s submission is not an adequate
submission. It does not at all comply with the Communications Procedure
Guidelines for identification and documentation of actual incidents of
human rights violations, and should be rejected on those grounds alone.
When same gender marriage was passed last year in Argentina, the GL groups there in the wake of their happiness over its passage and being signed into law July 21 by President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner uttered a bitterly familiar phrase to the transpeople left behind legislatively.
We've heard it said over and over in the United States and Canada but have seen them fail repeatedly to live up to it: We'll come back for you.
Looks like the Argentine GL groups meant what they said.
There is not only a push to get Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner reelected to another term in the upcoming October 23 election, they are pushing a Gender Identity Law on behalf of the trans community.
The Argentine Congress will begin debate tomorrow on a proposed gender identity
law that if passed, would allow anyone to correct his or her name, gender
and image registration in all public records through a quick and simple
procedure.
The current policy in Argentina is for trans people who wish to have government ID that reflects their name and gender presentation to get the changes to them done via a judge's ruling. While our transpeople do occasionally win these court hearings, it can be a lengthy, costly and frustrating process if they have to appeal adverse rulings.
Because they have been trying since 2007 to get this bill through Congress and it keeps getting stuck in the Argentine Senate, in advance of tomorrow's upcoming debate, FALGBT, the Argentinian Federation of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans people and the ATTTA (Asociación de Travestis, Transexuales y Transgéneros de Argentina) launched an informational campaign entitled 'Identitad: Direcho de ser.' (Identity: The Right to Be in English) complete with this video.
Best of luck to our trans brothers and sisters in Argentina and hope I have positive news to report soon from our South American trans cousins
As I continue to point out in various ways, transpeople are part of the diverse mosaic of human life on this planet. We reside in every nation and just simply wish to live our lives without major interference from faith based bigots or people who hate us.
Thanks to Transadvocate, got to see this YouTube video interview from Colombian trans activist Laura Weinstein.
One of the places in which we African American transpeople are different
from our white transbrothers and sisters is that our faith is an important component to who we are. I've talked about the fact that it seems in the TBLG community every faith tradition up to and including atheism is expressed or respected, but let someone in a TBLG space say their are a Christian and they get no love and respect for that, but derision..
The Christian bashing we see in elements of the TBLG community is offensive
to us in the African American community and our allies.
Remember as I have said numerous times, the trans community is a
microcosm of our parent society, and the parent society we African
descended transpeople are raised in has a deep faith tradition as a
component of it. That spiritual and faith tradition that undergirds our culture is one that we African descended transpeople reconcile our faith and our transitions with as the recently completed TransFairth In Color Conference recently demonstrated.
That TransFaith of Color conference in Charlotte was one in which many of our leading activists attended and if I can work it out with the people who run it, I would love to be in Charlotte for the 2012 event. So yeah, when we see predominately white transpeople merrily attacking and mocking the Christian faith but would have a cow if we did the same to them and their faith traditions, it's another one of the issues which causes blood pressure to rise for us and contemplate going our own way..
It's understandable why elements of you have major issues with organized religion, the bigots who wrap themselves in religious cloaks and use the Bible as a baton to beat people with. We have issue with those little c 'christians' as well and call them out on a regular basis.
But at the same time you cannot dismiss the folks who are people of faith such as Bishop Carlton Pearson, Bishop Yvette Flunder, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Rev Al Sharpton and countless others who are standing up for TBLG people.
But seriously, y'all need to chill in the TBLG community with the Christian bashing in this community. It's problematic, it ain't cute, and it's complicating our ability to convince some people of faith of the importance of supporting the trans civil rights cause when some you irresponsibly mock and attack the faith of Christians.
