Stop Hatin' On Dr. Susan Rice, Sen. John McCain

I've noted this racist pattern conservafools have of hatin' on African-American Obama Administration senior officials. 

First it was Van Jones and Desiree Rogers, then you tried to attack US Attorney General Eric Holder for doing his damned job and putting a halt to your voter suppression bull feces, and now you fools are coming after UN Ambassador Dr. Susan E. Rice.

By the way, happy birthday Dr Rice!   She was born in Washington DC on this date in 1964.  

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has been the point conservafool on this political smearing attack of Dr. Rice along with Sen Lindsey Graham (R-SC) whose pink elephant behind needs to come out of the closet.

Oops, did I say that?  

Back to riffing on Sen John McCain and his loud and wrong attacks on Ambassador Rice, who is a potential nominee to replace Secretary of State Hillary Clinton when she steps down. 

I know John McCain, the man who chose intellectually challenged Sarah Palin to be his vice presidential running mate.didn't just part his lips to say that he would do everything in his power to stop that nomination if it happened, and in addition to that had the unmitigated gall to call her 'not very bright' 

Senator McCain is in no position to judge who is 'not very bright', since he graduated 894th out of 898 people in his Naval Academy class.  

Dr Rice on the other hand was valedictorian of her HS class, a Phi Beta Kappa history student at Stanford and a Rhodes Scholar.  

'Not very bright'?    Yeah, right.   I have three words for you Senator McCain.  Take it away, Mr. T.

And stop hatin' on Dr. Susan Rice.  She'll be a far better Secretary of State that the other non-related Republican Rice you supported. 

Shut Up Fool Awards- Hostess Dies Edition

Sad news for those of us who grew up chowing down on Hostess twinkies, cupcakes, Ho Ho's, Ding Dongs, Wonder Bread and the people who work hard to make those treats. 

Hostess was founded in 1930, and has been since September in the midst of a crippling strike after they tried to get workers to accept a contract that slashed wages and benefits. Never mind the fact management increased their own wages and benefits by 75-80% in July 2011.

The Irving, TX based corporation has been in Chapter 11 bankruptcy since January and threatened to take the company into liquidation if the striking workers didn't return to work by yesterday's midnight deadline.   When that deadline passed without a deal, Hostess moved to liquidate the company and the 18,500 jobs that come with making those iconic treats.  

As to what will happen with those iconic brands, stay tuned.

Moving on from business Mitt Rommey style to our Friday Shut Up Fool Awards business.  Let's get right to this week's award winners..  

Honorable mention number one is a group award.  It goes to all the nekulturny fools who signed those petitions to 'secdee' from the United States in the wake of their continuing vanillacentric sour graping over the POTUS convincingly winning a second term.  

Honorable mention number two goes to Mitt Romney for once again disrespecting non-white voters, young voters and women by pimping the conservaline that the only reason he lost was because the Obama campaign gave out 'gifts'.  

Naw dufus, you lost because your arrogant azz changed your positions faster than you changed your undergarments and you lied repeatedly during the campaign.   Now you and Ann can unpack because 1600 Pennsylvania Ave is occupied until January 2017.  

Honorable mntion number three is Callista Gingrich.  She had the nerve to open her mouth and comment in the unfolding David Petraues sex scandal that 'affairs are painful and sad for the family.'

She should know because she was the other woman cheating with Newt Gingrich on his second wife Marianne, who took him from his first wife when she was battling illness.    

This week's winner is Dr Cornel West .  He and his homeboy Tavis Smiley have been hatin' on President Obama since the 2008 election cycle, and the once high regard the African-American community (and the TransGriot) had for both men has now sunk to the same disgust I have for Supreme Court (in)justice Uncle Clarence Thomas.

Cornel earned this week's award for his interview with Democracy Now host Amy Goodwin in which he not only slammed the POTUS by calling him a "Rockefeller Republican in blackface", he lashed out at MSNBC pundits Michael Eric Dyson, Melissa Harris-Perry and Rev. Al Sharpton by saying they were 'all for sale'.


Dude, you along with your boy Tavis were the front knee-grows trying to organize a left-wing third party challenge to the POTUS.   So don't expect any tickets to this inauguration either much less any invites to the White House during this second term.

And oh by the way, Dr Cornel West, shut the HELL up, fool  

Thanks Again TransGriot Readers For Another Record Traffic Day!

I just set on November 6 my fifth highest all-time TransGriot record traffic day, and now that just got eclipsed on November 13.

If you surfed by here on that day, you were part of the 7566 people who perused the content I posted on that day, so pat yourselves on the back.  One of them was a post with me musing about TDOR 2012, the other was about New York's Ali Forney Center being destroyed by Hurricane Sandy flooding.

But then again, you never really know what posts will go viral.  All I do is try to write quality ones, post it, and let it go from there.

While I'm justifiably popping my collar over my new fifth highest ever traffic day, once again I need to thank you TransGriot readers for surfing by and taking time out of your busy schedules to read what I write here.

Without you loyal readers I don't have the visibility, buzz and love y'all shower me with.  I enjoy having this electronic platform to tell it like it T-I-S is about being trans from an Afrocentric perspective and whatever other subject I wish to talk about, and I thank y'all for reading my posts and telling your friends about it.

All I can do is continue to live up to my TransGriot Mission Statement, keep writing the quality stuff you expect from me and see if I can beat my all time record of 9678 visitors I set back on April 3, 2012. 

Thanks again TransGriot readers.

2012 TransGriot NFL Picks-Week 11

Had a rough NFL Week 10 that included an unexpected 24-24 tie in the 49ers-Rams game. Thanks to the Steelers overtime win and my Texans handling their NFL business in Chicago Sunday night I still finished with an above .500 record for the week.

But as a result of the upsets and a 'what was I thinking' moment with the Chargers, my six game lead I had over Mr. Watts has dropped to a mere 4 games with six weeks to go.

Time to get back on the winning trail.  Clock is ticking toward the end of the season and as I said at the beginning of this 2012 NFL prognostication contest I was in it to win it this year.  I do not want to finish tied, nor do what i had to do to get that tie last year.   

The Vikings, Giants, Seahawks, and Titans Traitors are on their bye week, which means only 14 games to select.  Mike's picks are here.   Mine are in underlined bold print and I'm determined to do better than .500 this week.   


Week 10 records 
TransGriot  7-6-1
Mike Watts 9-4-1

2012 Season Records
TransGriot  93-52-1
Mike Watts 89-56-1

Week 11

Bye week
Vikings, Giants, Seahawks, Titans

Thursday, November 15
Dolphins at Bills,

Sunday, November 18
Jaguars at Texans
Eagles at Redskins
Packers at Lions
Cardinals at Falcons
Buccaneers at Panthers
Browns at Cowboys
Jets at Rams
Colts at Patriots

Bengals at Chiefs

Sunday Afternoon
Saints at Raiders
Chargers at Broncos

Sunday Night
Ravens at Steelers

Monday, November 19
Bears at 49ers

You Were Right: You ARE Just A Bunch Of Racist, Pathetic Sore Losers

Y'all told the truth about yourselves back in 2010 when you first started having those Tea Klux Klan meetings.  

Now, one week after your crushing loss to President Obama shattered and splattered your pipe dreams of making him a one term president,  you're now showing your infantile KKKolors and demonstrating for the whole world just how prophetic the above sign in the photo is.

You're not 'Real Americans'.  You are not even worthy of being called Americans because you're demanding to 'secdee' from this nation because of a lost election.

Naw, let's be real about this.  You're frothing at the mouth angry that our African American POTUS once again decisively won another election.  It also frosts you bigots that President Obama and his family will be residing at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in that nice white house my ancestors built with their unpaid labor through January 20, 2017.   

Why don't you hooked on phonics challenged losers do us a favor and self deport yourselves from those of us who wish to move the United States forward into the 21st century and not backwards into the 19th century vanillacentric privileged hell y'all wanted to take it?

News flash: The Canadians don't want you in their home and native land either.  

We liberal progressives were beyond pissed about the previous White House occupant stealing two elections.  But unlike y'all we worked to clean up the Bushit at the ballot box.

But if y'all do leave it'll make it easier to give John Boehner something to really cry about interms of having to hand his speaker's gavel back to Nancy Pelosi.

Alice Robb, Why You Tripping About The POTUS Calling His Daughters Beautiful?

One of my readers brought an article by Alice Robb of the Oxonian Globalist to my attention in which she criticized the part of President Obama's victory speech last week in which he said this about the First Daughters:

“Sasha and Malia, before our very eyes, you’re growing up to become two strong, smart, beautiful young women, just like your mom, and I’m so proud of you.”

While the rest of the world, the TransGriot and Black America loved this comment, check out what the third year Oxford University's Keble College student from NYC had to say about it

Obama’s comments beg the question of why a girl’s beauty should be source of pride for her father— and why beauty should be a value lauded alongside strength and intelligence.  The President may have been directing his comments at only two people, but he had the ears of the world, and on a day that should have been a triumph for women, his remarks stung.

Alice, since you didn't grow up as a Black female and don't interact with this world with a Black female body, allow me to break it down for you and demonstrate just how clueless and vanillacentric privileged your comment is.

The beauty standard you rail against is one that exalts women who look like you as the measuring stick that all women should aspire to.  

That same beauty standard that lifts white women and white girls like yourself up as the penultimate beauties is conversely the same one that is used to denigrate non-white women, and especially Black women and girls. 

Lets not pretend that the Black 'unwoman' demonization meme aimed at Black women and girls doesn't exist.  If you think I'm kidding about that, Exhibit A of it is the jacked up Satoshi Kanazawa May 2011 article entitled 'Why Black Women are Ugly.' that I had no problem putting on blast like I'm doing your comments right now.

Note that when you pick up any fashion magazine not named ESSENCE  that all you see in them are glamorous fashion photos of white women.   Same with television shows, movies, commercials, print ads or beauty products that predominately feature white women in them.  In your hometown of New York, one of the world modeling hubs, during the spring and fall Fashion Week shows the numbers of Black models strutting those runways are so minuscule you can count them on one hand.

President Obama is a parent of two daughters first and foremost.  The First Lady, Sasha and Malia have been attacked and had the Black unwoman meme frequently flung at them by a cavalcade of right wing idiots (something white feminists have been cricket chirping silent about).

You damned skippy he's going to do everything in his power like any Black father would do to push back against the negative forces working on the self esteem of his daughters by telling them (and his wife) at every opportunity, including his victory speech that they are strong, smart and beautiful young women.  . 

So Alice Robb, why you tripping about President Obama calling his daughters beautiful?  You mad because he took a few moments in a speech that went around the world to show his daughters some love? 

There is nothing wrong with what President Obama said about his daughters because, frankly, Sasha and Malia ARE strong, smart, beautiful young women that I'm happy will be residing at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for the next four years.

Laverne On Being Black And Trans

You hear my take on being Black and trans on a regular basis here at TransGriot.  Stumbled across this video of my sis Laverne Cox expressing herself on the topic.

Take it away Laverne

This Texas Conservafool Was Editing Your Child's Textbooks

I was already pissed off about Hardin County Republibigot Peter Morrison and his 'maggots' comment in reference to those of us who voted to give President Obama a well deserved second term.

But the more I find out about this waste of DNA, the more I go into Maya Wilkes mode concerning him.

Morrison is not only a Paulista (strike one), he edits a racist newsletter called the Morrison Report that is republished on Tea Klux Klan and fundie evangelical websites. (strike two).

Bu the most alarming thing about this 33 year old bigot is that he was tapped by the former chair of the Texas State Board of Indoctrination Education Don McLeroy to screen Texas public school textbooks.. (strike three)

yep, a man who has called other Texans 'maggots' and who angrily accused Asian-Americans and Hispanics who backed Obama of voting on an "ethnic basis" was editing your kids textbooks.

Peter, stop projecting because your white hood is showing.  The only reason you peeps voted for Mitt Romney's clearly unqualified behind for POTUS is because you share the same 'ethnic basis' with him..  

Liberal progressive Texans, we need to get busy with the project of turning Texas blue ASAP.

And yeah, you're definitely a nominee for this week's Shut Up Fool award..

Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/11/08/4399621/hardin-county-gop-official-wants.html#storylink=cpy

       

Rev Louis Mitchell TransPride 2012 Speech

Here's another one of my fave trans men in our community speaking to the people assembled at the 2012 Trans Pride March and Rally that I had the pleasure of doing in 2008 and 2010.

Texas Secede? Yeah, Right

As many of you long time TransGriot readers are aware of I'm a proud fourth generation Texan and native Houstonian. 

I've been amused and concerned to see in the wake of President Obama's overwhelming reelection victory last week pissed off white peepul rioting at the University of Mississippi, letting their inner Klansmen out on Facebook and Twitter, and Republican leaning 'bidnessmen' using the excuse of the Obama victory and expansion of the Democratic Senate majority to lay off workers.   

Now we have so called 'Real Americans' showing their love of this country by sticking petitions on the White House website asking to secede from the United States with the one from my beloved home state getting 80,000 nekulturny people to sign it.

Um people, we're in the middle of observing the 150th anniversary of the War To Perpetuate Slavery (AKA the Civil War) your ancestors jumped off because of that 'states rights' bull feces.  

The question of whether a state could secede or not was not only settled on the battlefield 150 years ago (and y'all lost that war) but was settled by an 1869 US Supreme Court ruling in the Texas v. White case that says no state has the right to unilaterally secede.  

I also find it ironic that the racist failed nation state you continue to romanticize that your ancestors founded that you claim was founded on that 'states rights' principle but was actually of and about perpetuating slavery, was a four year failure in nation building.   The CSA was never recognized by any other world power and hypocritically barred a proposed constitutional provision preserving the right of a state to secede.

So I'm chuckling over this post- election rhetoric from predominately white Texans who were asleep in their Texas history classes wanting to secede and reestablish the Republic of Texas.

If you were paying attention, the Republic of Texas that existed from 1836-1846 and whose capital for two years (1837-1839) was Houston had a tough time fending off Mexican Army and Comanche incursions, and racked up a $10 million debt that the US government agreed to assume once annexation of Texas was complete

So let's get to the real reason why the Tea Klux Klan is pushing this secession talk.   They have like everyone one else who is paying attention to current political developments in the Lone Star State known that Texas has become since 2009 a majority minority state population wise.   The four other majority-minority US states politically have become Democratic in political orientation and the only reason Texas hasn't gone that way is because of the 2003 Delaymandering and the gerrymandering of districts by the GOP legislative majority following the 2010 midterms 

It's inevitable that Texas will once again revert to being a progressive political state, and Republicans have pissed off Latino, African-American and Asian communities to the point that it's just a matter of time before the Texas Republican Party resembles the California one.   

President Obama carried four of the five largest Texas counties population wise in Harris (Houston), Dallas, Travis (Austin), and Bexar (San Antonio).  Tarrant County (Ft. Worth) went to Romney.    In addition to carrying those counties, he carried Jefferson County (Beaumont-Port Arthur), El Paso, heavily Latino South Texas and many of the counties along the Rio Grande.

A blue or even Purple Texas would be a disaster for the Republicans because they heavily rely in their presidential electoral vote calculations of having Texas' 38 electoral votes in their column.   If they were forced to compete for Texas, this state is bigger than France size wise and has expensive media markets in Houston, Dallas and San Antonio.

We non Anglo Texans already know what's driving this need to secede.  Racism.  

In addition to the vanillacentric panic in conservacircles over the fact the United States will be a majority-minority population nation by 2050, that reality was driven home by the election of President Obama in 2008 and his reelection to another four year term last week.

Don't think we non-white Texans weren't paying attention when  Hardin County Republican treasurer Peter Morrison (who is also a  Ron Paul supporter) and author of a race-baiting Tea Party newsletter wrote this bigoted drivel:   

"Let each go her own way," Morrison wrote, demanding an "amicable divorce" from the U.S. and from the "maggots" who re-elected President Obama.

And you wonder why I can't stand the Republican Party, Ron Paul supporters, the Tea Klux Klan and libertarians azzholes like him not necessarily in that order and people outside of this state think we're all nekulturny yahoos. .

 more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/11/12/3908795/commentary-politician-wants-texas.html#storylink=cpy

Bottom line is 75% of the 25,145,561 people in this state like being American citizens just fine, and I submit the 13,582,879 of us who aren't Anglo like saying the Pledge of Allegiance and singing our national anthem.  We are quite aware that as long as the Stars and Stripes flies on flagpoles throughout the 268,601 square miles of  Texas turf, our human rights are protected under the laws of this country and the United States Constitution.

All bets are off on that in a white dominated Republic of Texas.  

Besides, without Texas as part of the United States, you conservafoools have no chance of ever regaining the White House, so chill with that secession talk.  You also by expressing your racist selves let us know through your actions just how much you really love this country and our state.. 

And yeah, you tried that secession thang already in 1861.  It was a miserable failure.
 

TDOR 2012 Musings

The Transgender Day of remembrance has become an international event observed by trans people around the world and the 2012 event is no different. 

We're adding another 173 names to a depressingly long 2012 list of people who were murdered around the world between the conclusion of the last TDOR in November 2011 and this year's event.   

Perusing the list reveals events happening in the United Kingdom, Greece, France, Italy, Ireland, Malaysia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, Romania, Scotland, and Sweden in addition to the ones occurring across the United States and Canada.   Hope there will be others somewhere on the continents of Africa, South America to go along with the ones taking place in North America Europe and the Asian-Pacific Rim.

I also hope that somewhere in the Caribbean, the Middle East and Latin America there will also be a TDOR held, even if it's just a few people gathered at a friends house or in a double secret location and prayers are said for the people we lost.

Texas will be well represented on the US TDOR memorial event list with events taking place in Houston, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio and possibly Lubbock.

If you have information regarding your 2012 event please send an email to Ethan St. Pierre and Marti Abernathey transgenderdor@gmail.com and follow updates on twitter: http://twitter.com/Transgenderdor

When you considering the persecution that our sisters are battling in Malaysia and Russia, it's cool to note that TDOR's are still happening in Kuala Lumpur and St. Petersburg.   I was hoping to see an event taking place in Brazil considering there has been far too much anti-trans violence visited upon my sisters who live here. .

There's also been far too much trans feminine blood shed in Turkey, Honduras, Mexico and Guatemala. 

In Guatemala the anti-trans hatred had gotten so bad trans activist Fernanda Milan had to flee her homeland for Denmark where she endured even more suffering and is facing deportation back to Guatemala    

And yes, hope the Transgender Day of Remembrance events are as diverse as the lost trans sisters we'll be memorializing in them.  

When you contemplate the fact the TDOR was created to honor Rita Hester, a Black Boston metro area transwoman whose 1998 murder still is unsolved, and 70% of the Remembering Our Dead list is comprised of Black and Latina trans women I shouldn't have to say this every year.

I also hope and pray that someday it won't be necessary to have TDOR's to remind the world of the obscene levels of violence aimed at us.

But until the world considers a transperson's life to be as valuable as any cisperson's life, circling November 20 on the calendar every year and remembering our lost sisters will sadly be something we engage in as part of our trans human rights struggle.

Ali Forney Center Destroyed By Sandy Flooding

One of the casualties of Hurricane Sandy's landfall in the New Jersey-New York region was the Ali Forney Center in New York's Chelsea neighborhood. 

The Ali Forney Center (AFC) started in June 2002 in response to fulfilling a need for a safe shelter for LGBTIQ kids in the New York Area.  It has grown to become the nation's largest organization of its kind serving homeless LGBT youth.  It provides food, shelter, education, HIV testing and treatment, mental health and substance abuse services.and other medical attention for them.

The center's location was in Chelsea half a block from the Hudson River.  The Hurricane Sandy storm surge driven flooding left four feet of water in the center and destroyed their phones, computers, refrigerator, food and supplies.  Complicating matters is the flooding left the space uninhabitable. 

The AFC takes care of 300 people a month and 1000 people a year.  While they were planning to move to a new 24 hour center in Harlem, that space won't be ready for the full services this vulnerable population needs for several months.

The Ali Forney Center team is asking for help.   They have temporarily relocated to the NYC LGBT center located at 208 W. 13th St  (between 7th and 8th Avenues)  with operation hours from 10 AM-5:30 PM EST.  Phone number is 646-358-1755

They are also asking for cash donations or checks only at this time.  

Ali Forney Center/ATTN: Andria Ottley
224 West 35th St, Suite 1500
New York, NY 10001

They have no place to store food, supplies,  clothing or utilize extra volunteers and when they have that capability or need that type of assistance, they will reach out to supporters of the AFC at that time.

Black Trans Women Became Visible Because We Had To Be

Was sent a link by reader Segmoh Hareema Akinak to a Clutch magazine story by Ella Vincent discussing how Black LGBT women became visible.  

Was surprised to note that it included me and Janet Mock in it since when they discuss women in these online heteronormative and cisgender oriented spaces, far too often trans women get left out of the discussion or dissed when people try to include us in it..

I appreciate the shout out, but I do need to expand on the #girlslikeus portion of Vincent's piece.

Black trans women are visible because we had to be for our own survival, political evolution and our sanity.  We face anti-trans violence aimed at us that we will sadly be memorializing this week in TDOR events here in the States and around the world.  We were getting ignored not only by our own transpeople and our African-American family inside and outside the community, but being erased from the trans and LGBT history we helped make.

Don't even get me started about the Black unwoman meme that is magnified when it focuses its negativity on African descended trans women and slaps us with a definition of Black trans femininity that is not who we see when we look in the mirror. 

In the face of that, it amazed me when I read about the Gallup survey that noted that 4.6 percent of African-Americans identify as LGBT along with 4 percent of Latinos and 4.3 percent of Asian-Americans while only  3.2 percent of white Americans say they are LGBT.   But the media faces representing the LGBT community and dominating the leadership ranks of professional TBLG rights organizations lobbying for it are far too often white ones.  The minuscule numbers of transpeople involved in those Gay, Inc organizations far too often aren't transwomen of color either. 

It's been glaringly obvious to me since the 90's that we desperately needed out and proud Black transwomen telling our stories and offsetting the disco era hate speech pushed by radical feminists about trans women. 

I've been part of that effort since 1998 and I'm happy I now have help in this vital visibility project from a new generation of out and proud trans women such as Janet Mock, Isis King, Laverne Cox, Rev. Carmarion Anderson, Bali White, Danielle King, KOKUMO, Dee Dee Chamblee and countless others around the country.

It's also wonderful that in addition to the new attitude we Black trans women have about fearlessly telling our chococentric truths about our transfeminine lives and stepping up to leadership roles in the various communities we intersect and interact with, we also have our trans elders such as Cheryl Courtney-Evans, Gloria Allen, Miss Major, Tracie Jada O'Brien, and Sharyn Grayson passing on their hard won knowledge and community history to us so we can pass on that history to future generations of African descended trans kids and our allies.

As New Black Transwomen, we not only had to become visible to attack the shame, guilt and fear that deleteriously impact our lives, we needed to do so in order to own our political and personal power, love ourselves and build pride in becoming and being who we are as proud African descended women. 

Black transwomen have become and are visible in this second decade of the 21st century because for the sake of the transkids wishing to walk in our pumps, we had to be.  

 

2012 Texans Watch-Texans Win Soggy Defensive Showdown

My fave NFL squad took their AFC best 7-1 record into a prime time televised showdown last night with the 7-1 NFC North leading Chicago Bears at a rain soaked Soldier Field that not many pundits gave them a chance to win.  

The sports media chatter before kickoff was talking about how great the Bears defense was and ignoring my Houston NFL homeboys, but when this game was over the Texans were the team that emerged victorious.

The Texans Bulls on Parade defense sent a message they are pretty good as well.  They forced four Chicago turnovers, knocked Jay Cutler out of the game with a second quarter concussion and held the Bears to two field goals.  The Texans generated enough offense thanks to Arian Foster's 102 yards on 29 carries to score the game's only touchdown in the second quarter that lifted the Texans to a 10-3 lead and on the path to ending the Bears six game winning streak.  

And oh yeah, with the 13-6 win the Texans moved to 8-1 on the season, bumped their all time franchise record against Da Bears to a spotless 3-0 and stayed unbeaten on the road in the 2012 season.  

Next up for the Texans is another AFC South Division game at Reliant Stadium with the Jacksonville Jaguars 

 

Dynamo In MLS Eastern Conference Finals

While I'm waiting for the Texans to play Da Bears later tonight, I'll be rooting for our other football team that wears the orange jerseys, kicks a round ball around the soccer pitch and is trying to get to the MLS Cup final for the second consecutive year.

They knocked off Sporting Kansas City in their MLS Eastern Conference semifinal two leg playoff matchup by beating SKC 2-1 at BBVA Compass stadium last Sunday and then withstanding a furious SKC assault on their goal in the return leg match on Wednesday.  

SKC won the game in their park 1-0, but the Dynamo won the playoff series with a cumulative 2-1 score. 

That earned them a Eastern Conference finals matchup against one of the more storied teams in MLS in DC United, who have won four MLS cups but are in their playoffs for the first time in five seasons.   They are also on a little bit of a roll in terms of going 6-0-3 in their last nine matches and knocking off the New York Red Bulls in their semifinal series.  . 

But DC United faces a Dynamo squad that has been unbeatable at BBVA Compass Stadium (12-0-6) and has one of the best goalkeepers in MLS in Tally Hall.   DC United is also playing this game without goalkeeper Bill Hamid, who received a red card in the second leg against New York and the suspended for this series Andy Najar.

The Men In Orange also want a return trip to MLS Cup and if they win this series will face either the defending champion LA Galaxy or the Seattle Sounders.  

The league changed the format this year so that the team with the best record would host the MLS Cup game, and unfortunately should the Dynamo win, they would have to travel to either LA or Seattle in the attempt to win their third MLS title.

Either way, the Dynamo won't care where they have to go as long as they have the opportunity to win the MLS Cup       

Happy Veterans Day 2012 Trans Vets!

Today is Veterans Day in the US in which we remember the service of all our men and women who served or are currently serving in our nations military

I wanted to particularly remember a segment of the tran population that doesn't get much love shown their way, but will always get it on the TransGriot pages in terms of our trans vets.

The trans vets I have had the pleasure of meeting in the years I've been involved in the trans human rights fight have served in every conflict from the Korean and Vietnam Wars to Iraq and Afghanistan. 

Many has moved on from their military service to become leaders in our trans human rights movement and our communities such as Monica Helms and Angela Brightfeather of TAVA, Dionne Stallworth, Dawn Wilson, Angelica Ross, Autumn Sandeen, Phyllis Frye and now Allyson Robinson as the Executive Director of the newly merged Out Serve-SLDN.

Trans veterans not only served our nation, they have and continue to provide principled and solid leadership for our community.   They have not only helped to fight for human rights laws for all Americans, but things that help make the lives of the trans community and veterans like themselves better. 

Trans veterans are also front and center in the fight to ensure that the DADT repeal that they worked for but didn't include us will be expanded.   They want transpeople who wish to openly serve our country to have the ability to do so.

If it's not acceptable for LGB military personnel to have to hide who they are to serve our nation's military, it damned sure isn't acceptable for transpeople to have to hide to serve in the military either.  Neither is it okay for those transpeople who wish to join our nation's military to automatically be excluded from doing so when they walk into an armed forces recruiting center to do so. 

It's why I not only have much love for trans vets, but support their fight to openly serve our country. like transpeople in eight nations including Canada can do right now. 

Happy Veterans Day transvets!   Thank you for you service to our nation and our community.  

Diamond Stylz: They Are Mad, Angry, Livid, Etc.

My Houston homegirl's latest video blog in which she discusses the recent election and the unhinged reaction of the conservasheeple who were told by their media and believed Romney would win until reality shattered and splattered their presidential pipe dreams

But I'll let y'all hear Diamond's take on it.

2012 Houston TDOR Next Saturday

Well, you folks in the Houston area will know where to find me from 7-9:30 PM next Saturday. 

I'll be on the University of Houston campus joining my fellow transpeeps and our allies in memorializing the trans sisters here and around the world we lost in 2012 to anti-trans violence.

The Houston Transgender Day of Remembrance event will happen November 17  It is sponsored by the UH LGBT Resource Center and will take place on the University of Houston main campus in the AD Bruce Religion Center.

If you're in the Houston metro area and can make it, hope you do so.   

Thank You Readers For TransGriot's Fifth Highest All-Time Traffic Day!

If you surfed by here on November 6, you were part of my fifth largest traffic day of all time at TransGriot.

I didn't write much on that day except a post exhorting people to vote , a post thanking you for my fourth highest traffic day of all time , a short one noting a local trans feminine leader who was running for US Congress and when I got the word that President Obama won, I reposted the video of Ann Coulter's 2011 CPAC prediction about what would happen if Romney was selected as their nominee.

I ended that day with 7341 page views and the fifth highest TransGriot traffic day of all time..

As I said before, there are hundreds of trans blogs, but only one award winning one written from the perspective of an IFGE Trinity Award winning proud African descended trans activist.   Thank you for taking the time out of your day to surf by here and read what I have to say about various issues.  

I write to keep you apprised of what's going on inside and outside transworld and talk about it from a chococentric perspective.   I'm aware of how important that is because y'all tell me while I'm out and about how imprtant that is to you to have that perspective injected in th stories that impact our community, much less have someone talk about the issues that affect us that tend to get ignored

Thank you once again loyal TransGriot readers, and with your help and me continuing to focus on writing quality posts, I know I'll break those traffic records someday

Shut Up Fool Awards-Post Presidential Politics Edition

The 2012 elections happened earlier this week with President Obama winning a decisive electoral college victory and getting over 60 million votes to ours and the world's cheers.   That means on January 21, 2013 President Obama will be inaugurated for a second term

He and the First Family will be living at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave until January 20, 2017 to the disgust of Mitch McConnell and all his vanillacentric privileged GOP cohorts who wanted Mitt version whatever to win.  

I had too many contenders this week to list them all so I'll just get right to my SUF honorable mentions and the winner. 

Honorable mention number one goes to 2012 Shut up Fool of the Year contender Mitt Romney.            Just pick a reason.

Honorable mention number two goes to the entire conservafool movement for their ongoing post election freak out 

Honorable mention number three goes to the conservafool leaning Susan B Anthony List.  A female run PAC that is not only exhibiting a particularly acute case of Stockholm Syndrome, but president of the group Marjorie Dannenfelser claimed in a post election press conference that Mitt Romney lost because he wasn't conservative enough.

This week's Shut Up Foot winner is another contender for 2012 Shut Up Fool of the Year, Ted Nugent. 

Teddy took to Twitter and started another series of racist tweets in reaction to President Obama winning a second term in another blowout.

Ted, didn't you promise us you'd be dead or in jail if the POTUS was elected?   So far neither has happened to you yet.

All together now TransGrot readers.  Ted Nugent, shut up fool!