Trans Oppressors Hate Transpeople

Let me make this perfectly clear. If you advocate for policies that oppress transpeople and make our lives more difficult, you hate us.

It’s that simple

If you penned a transphobic book as Janice Raymond did and wrote a 1981 paper that resulted not only in the elimination of a low income trans person's ability to use Medicare and Medicaid to cover SRS, and then insurance companies followed suit by denying us insurance coverage we paid for to do that, then you are a trans oppressor.

If you got a transperson terminated from a job or did the deed yourself, you are a trans oppressor.

If you outed a transperson against their will or started a whisper campaign against them because of jealousy, your faith based hatred or ignorance of transpeople,  you are a trans oppressor.

If you wrote an unjust academic paper with the goal of restricting or eviscerating the human rights of trans people around the world to pimp a failed disco era radical feminist agenda, you are a trans oppressor.

If you penned an unjust law that denies human rights to transpeople, you are a trans oppressor.

If you are a judge that has made an unjust ruling against a transperson when the merits of the case and weight of the evidence called for you to rule in favor of the trans person to protect their human rights, you are a trans oppressor.


If you are pushing a self serving, racist, exclusionary definition of transsexual because you are self loathing and too clueless to see that it's deleterious to the human rights of all transpeople including yourselves and colluding with radical feminists who hate you, then you are a trans oppressor.

As Alfred Paster said in The Roots of Soul in 1982, "Oppression places identifiable constrictions on the natural rhythm of man." 

And I and the trans community are tired of those identifiable constrictions being cavalierly placed upon our human rights by so called friends and foes alike..

Unlike you who hate us, we don't hate you.  We hate your oppressive behavior.

'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'.