Gotta love it when hypocrisy is called out, and Whoopi Goldberg did so on The View Thursday in the wake of the Duggars jacked up exclusive interview with Megyn Kelly on FOX Noise trying to conservasplain their son Josh being a pedophile to five girls, four of their own daughters, and them covering it up.
"You brought God up, so it makes it OK to say this," Goldberg said of
the Duggar patriarch pleading for forgiveness for his oldest son.
"You're not forgiving of people. You’re not forgiving of people who feel
differently than you.”
What also makes it odious is in the Duggar zeal to oppress TBLG people, Michelle Duggar bore false witness against trans people while recording a robocall used in a campaign to roll back a Fayetteville, AR nondiscrimination law, and then doubled down on the demonization of trans people during the Tuesday interview.
This graphic has been making the rounds in Trans World recently, and far from being representative of the lack of job opportunities for trans women in Gay, Inc organizations, it's more accurately reflective of the lack of Gay, Inc job opportunities for African-American trans women.
Since we now have America's attention, one of the things that needs to be addressed that has been a longtime sore spot with our community is the problematic pattern of trans hiring (or lack thereof) in Gay, Inc organizations that claim to be advocates for the rights of transgender people.
As an example of what I'm discussing, the LGBTQ Task Force used to have until Kylar Broadus took over that role, a cisgender woman named Lisa Mottet running their Transgender Civil Rights Project.
While Mottet is a wonderful ally, has now moved on to NCTE and has done an admirable job in that role, it's still problematic with all the qualified trans people out there across the country doing the work (some for decades), you would still ignore them on an issue that they are more than qualified to advocate for, eloquently speak on in favor of hiring cisgender peeps to do that advocacy work.
And when they do deign to hire a trans person in a Gay, Inc org for a leadership position, it has been either predominately white trans masculine ones or a white trans woman.
It's even more galling to notice this pattern within Gay Inc orgs when the people who take the brunt of the hate crime casualties are Latina and African-American trans women.
We Black trans women have in many cases done the work for decades and put our asses on the line for all the letters of the TBLG community including our own, but when it comes time to get paid for it, we aren't the ones reaping the rewards.
When it comes time to getting paid to be a professional LGBT activist, far too often it is cisgender white gay males who do and get those positions and parlay those entry level positions into fast tracks to the leadership ranks of Gay, Inc organizations.
Even in the organizations that are trans oriented, the same problem crops up. With the notable exception of TPOCC, trans organizations are not only devoid of Black trans feminine people, but have a glaring lack of melanin in their senior leadership ranks.
Kudos for our work in articles, inclusion on community leadership lists or tributes in Gay, Inc org CEO speeches while deeply appreciated, don't pay our bills or get us out of poverty.
Sustained money from a decent job at a livable wage does.
When African-American trans people are facing 26% unemployment, it would send a powerful message to the corporate ranks you push your equality indexes on if you would actually practice what you preach at others and hire transpeople for your own Gay, Inc organizations.
And yes, Black legacy orgs, I'm giving y'all the side eye as well. This isn't just a Gay, Inc problem, and you traditional legacy orgs could also send a powerful message inside and outside our community about hiring us in these advocacy positions if you would take the bold step of leading instead of following on this issue.
If you are wishing to become competent on transgender human rights issues, wouldn't hurt for you to hire the people who are experts at it and who are also culturally competent in the issues that ail Black America as well
Will that pattern change? I hope and pray it expeditiously does, but that remains to be seen.
When I was a soon to be junior in high school in 1978, I turned on the television to watch the Belmont Stakes and what turned out to be sporting history as Affirmed won the Triple Crown.
Just the year before in 1977, I got to see Seattle Slew win the Triple Crown just four years after the amazing run of Secretariat who set the Belmont Stakes speed record in a blazing 2:24.00 run to capture the Triple Crown in 1973.
Some of you TransGriot readers have yet to have this happen in your lives just once.
But after teenaged me got to see three horses win the Triple Crown in my lifetime, it has now been 37 years since that June day I watched Affirmed do it. 13 horses have had a shot to join the short list of Triple Crown winning race horses but have had those dreams dashed by the 1.5 miles of the Belmont and fresh horses taking them out.
American Pharoah, who is owned by an Egyptian-American, has won the first two legs of the Triple Crown in the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes. Will I get to see sporting history made today or will I see another horse valiantly try to make that history but fall just short of it?
I'll be tuned in later today to find out if the horse with the misspelled name makes history
TransGriot Update: Yep, American Pharoah did it! Won the 147th Belmont Stakes wire to wire to become the first horse in 37 years to win the Triple Crown.
Serena Williams run to this third French Open title was a bumpy one at times. She had several three set matches in which she dropped the first set against formidable opponents like Victoria Azarenka and Sloane Stephens but roared back to win. She battled the flu in her semifinal round match with Timea Bacsisczky but came back to win in three sets.
She was so ill that she couldn't even train yesterday, but there she was on Court Philippe Chatrier for the 2015 French Open final against the Czech Republic's Lucie Safarova.
It started in dominating fashion with Serena taking the first set 6-3. She was cruising at 4-1 in the second set and serving for a 5-1 lead when in her words in the post match interview 'she choked'.
Williams stopped playing her A++ game as Lucie Safarova seized the early Christmas gift to get back into the set and win it in a tiebreaker. 6-7 (2-7) to even the match.
A pissed off Serena, upset that she blew her opportunity to close it out in straight sets, fell into an 0-2 hole in the third set before she kicked up her game another level that Safarova tried to match but couldn't. Williams won the next six games to take the match 6-2 and hold the Coupe Suzanne Lenglen for the third time.
It was Serena's 20th Grand Slam title, tying her with Steffi Graf, her third straight Grand Slam win since the 2014 US Open, her third French Open title and first since 2013.
And how apropos at the conclusion of this successful business trip to Paris, she's hoisting the Coupe Suzanne Lenglen on D-Day..
And oh yeah,Serena haters. she's halfway to a calendar year Grand Slam. The next Grand Slam is across the Channel at the All England Lawn Tennis And Croquet Club starting June 29, which has been her and Big Sis' personal playground throughout her career..
This is the month that women's soccer fans have been waiting for since the last World Cup in Germany ended with Japan taking the title home after winning the final over the USA in a shootout.
The 2015 Women's World Cup will start today and run until July 5 north of the border with the host Canadians taking on China later today in Edmonton.
This tournament has an expanded field of 24 nations, and the FIFA number two ranked Team USA will be seeking their third title and first since 1999. Germany after the heartbreak of losing on their home soil to Japan in the quarterfinals, will not only come into this tournament ranked number one, but will also be seeking to take the trophy back home for a record third time as well.
The host Canadians after not winning a game in the group stage in 2011, not only want to get to the knockout round, but play in the final in Vancouver.
Speaking of Team USA, their first Group D match will be played June 8 in Winnipeg against Australia. They will play Sweden on June 12 and finish up in Vancouver on June 16 against Nigeria.
Going to be fun to see how this month of women's soccer plays out, and it starts in a few hours.
When I last visited New York City in December, one of the things I was cognizant of while riding their subways was making sure I was standing in the middle of the subway station platforms as I waited for my MTA trains to take me wherever I wanted to go.
I was well aware of the history of people being either shoved onto the tracks or into oncoming trains by disturbed people.
And while there are a lot of girls in NYC who are my height, I was definitely paying attention to my surroundings when I was riding the subways.
With the increased attention on trans people because of the media hoopla surrounding Caitlyn Jenner, it's also had the affect of transphobia being ramped up in right wing circles that may manifest itself into increased hate attacks on transpeople
On Monday a 28 year old trans woman waiting for a southbound 6 train at Manhattan's Bleecker St. Station at 9 AM EDT was assaulted and shoved off the platform by a male assailant.
The assailant asked the woman “What are you looking at?” while standing nearby on the platform. He then “ran to a garbage pail” and removed a plastic bottle which he threw at her before pushing her onto the tracks, according to an NYPD spokesperson.
Commuters pulled the woman off the tracks and back onto the platform as the assailant fled the scene Authorities then took the woman to Bellevue Hospital where she was treated for lacerations on her chin and other bruises on her chin and arm before being released.
NYPD is investigating this incident as a hate crime, and this person is wanted for the crime.
And note to you trans haters, trans women are not your societal punching bags for your personal problems and issues.
As we wish our trans sister who was attacked a speedy recovery from her injuries, let us also hope the waste of DNA who committed this crime be swiftly arrested and punished for it.
Caitlyn Jenner is out to the world, and the media is going gaga over her. At the same time the transphobic bigots have come out to play, in addition to some folks in Trans World grousing about the attention she's getting as a former Olympian and stepparent to the Kardashians.
As I said in my post about Caitlyn's debut, any positive media attention that transpeople can get because the media peeps are suddenly interested in covering trans people is good media attention.
It's up to us to take this moment and pivot off of talking about Caitlyn and talking about the issues that impact and affect all transpeople.
Now let's pivot off of talking about Caitlyn to calling out fools as we do every Friday on these electronic pages.
Honorable mention number one is a group award to all the fools who signed the Change.org petition demanding that the International Olympic Committee take back the gold medal that Jenner won in the decathlon in 1976. To the IOC's credit,they quickly ignored that transphobic play.
Hell, if the IOC refuses to snatch the steroid fueled medals the East Germans won during their two decades of state sponsored cheating, what made these conservaidiots think their petition had any chance of success?
Honorable mention number two is Matt Walsh for his transphobic waste of bandwith that stated calling Jenner a woman was an insult to women. Dude, calling you a journalist is an insult to journalists And since when do you know what the hell is insulting to women?
Oh yeah, I forgot, you're a Conservative White Male that is endowed with the magical all knowing power to ascertain what all women are thinking.
Honorable mention number three to Marco Rubio for going on the FOX Noise show Outnumbered and when being called out by one of the Fembot panelists that his Middle East policy was 'nation building', tried to defend it by confusingly stating it wasn't nation building.
Honorable mention number four is DL Hughley for his tweeted transphobic comment in which he was hating on the idea of Caitlyn Jenner getting the ESPY Arthur Ashe Courage Award.
Caitlyn Jenner 2 receive Arthur Ashe award 4 courage! Ashe faced racism and AIDS with dignity and grace! Bruce Jenner put on a dress! #TeamDL
Yo DL, Black trans women face racism. AIDS and have to deal with off the charts violence directed at us far too often by our own people. So why don't you have several seats and a nice cup of STHU?
Besides DL,, it's ESPN who makes the final decision on who gets that particular ESPY award.
Honorable mention number five is Jay Foster, the superintendent of schools in Senatobia, MS who filed disturbing the peace charges against a Black family cheering the graduation of their loved one from high school.
So they are facing jail time for expressing their joy that a loved one graduated from high school? WTF?
At every high school and collegiate graduation I've ever gone to, people cheered the grads as they crossed the stage despite the usual admonition about maintaining the 'solemnity of the ceremony'.
WTF is wrong with these Mississippi Tea Klux Klan peeps? Do they hate Black peeps that much they want to do anything to make our lives miserable?
Honorable mention number six is Mike Huckabee, for his transphobia and other fracked up comments defending the Duggars this week
This week's Shut Up Fool winner is a group award for the Duggar family.
In addition to Jim Bob and Michelle's jacked up appearance on FOX Noise trying to defend the indefensible in terms of Josh molesting his sisters and another girl, Jill and Jessa Duggar are trying to cover for their pedophile brother.
Both are going on FOX Noise to once again deflect from the pedophilia going on in their house and Michelle Duggar is once again trying to deflect from the sexual predator in their family's midst and attack the trans community again.
Wooo Pig Sooie.....Phooey! Looks like the only pedophiles we see here are you Bible thumping ones.
Duggar family, have several seats at Razorback Stadium and shut up fools.
Hillary Clinton has been in Texas for the last three days to do some fundraising and other events in the Lone Star State to shore up the Democratic base here.
Yesterday afternoon she was on the Texas Southern University campus to receive a public service award named for the late Rep..Barbara Jordan, who was an alumnus of the university.
The speech was broadcast live on C-SPAN, and for those of you missed the speech, here's the video of it.
The French Open women's semifinals were earlier today, and Serena was playing Switzerland's Timea Bacsinszky for a spot in the finals.against Lucie Safarova.
She was hoping to avoid a troubling pattern in this French Open tournament in which she has dropped the first set, but roared back to win the next two and the match.
With her quarterfinal straight set dispatching of Sara Errani, it looked like she was back to being the brutally efficient and dominant player she usually becomes when a title is in her reach.
What people didn't know before this match was that Serena was battling a nasty flu bug, and it showed in the first set that she dropped 4-6 to Bacsinszky. But trailing 2-3 in the second set, coughing and struggling during the changeovers, Serena summoned once more that tremendous will to win that set her apart from most of the women on the tour and kicked up her game another level..
She won not only the next game to even the second set at 3-3, but the next nine consecutive game to close out the second set and even the match at 6-3, then closed out the third set to win it and the match 6-0.
She said in a post match interview with Darren Cahill:
"I don’t think I’ve ever been this sick – I didn’t expect to win that, and I can’t believe I won. I got the flu after my third-round match and I haven’t been getting better. Hopefully this is the worst and I’ll get better. I really thought I was going to lose, and I thought: if I’m going to
lose, I might as well go for winners. I was so tired, and I just fought
for every point."
Serena may have been ill, but the only one who is probably sick at the lost opportunity to knock her out of the French Open and get to the final is Timea Bacsinszky.
Serena will have a day off to rest, and will be playing for all this history on Saturday. If he pulls this off, it will be her third career French Open title and her 20th career Grand Slam title. That will put her only two behind tying Steffi Graf..
Speaking of two, she will be halfway to a calendar year Grand Slam, with her fave tournaments 'Williams'don and the US Open coming up.on the Grand Slam calendar. It will also be the third straight Grand Slam she has won since the 2014 US Open.and put her one away from a 'Serena Slam'
Speedy recovery Serena and hope you make that happen.
I had three major goals when I began my transition in 1994. On of them was wanting to be a visible role model for other girls like me.
The other was I wanted to be considered a complimentary to Black womanhood and not seen as a detriment to it.
The third was wanting to be the best Moni I could be to the point that my trans and cis sisters would be proud of me and whatever I accomplished.
I've been honored with a lot of awards, profiled in articles and added to some lists, but was not expecting to be part of this Samantha Master article in The Root that profiled 8 Trans Women Of Color Doing More Than Being Visible.
Speaks to how long I've been in the movement when I've met or personally know the other seven amazing women who were profiled in this article.
While I'm honored to be one of the people in this article, and I thank everyone for the kudos on my FB page, I can't nor will I let you peeps forget we have some amazing trans women of color leaders across this country and beyond our borders.
My native Hawaiian sisters like Cathy Taffy, Ashilana Hawelu-Fulgoni, Stacia Ohira, Hina Wong-Kalu, and Maddalyn Ashton Sesepasara and Asian sisters like Kim Coco Iwamoto, Cecilia Chung, Tita Aida, Geena Rocero and Andy Marra.
And a shoutout goes to all trans women of color who are yet unknown on a local, statewide or national stage, but are doing their part to lead in their communities and advance our just trans human rights cause.
All trans women of color are representing our overall community not only as leaders, but as leaders role modeling a transition experience formed by their cultural experiences.
Women of Color means more than just a default way to write Black or African-American.
While the media focus may be on Caitlyn Jenner, Trans World, our trans men and allies know who the people are who have been doing the heavy lifting to make it easier for Caitlyn and other to have a community to come out to.and who would have her back when the haters started coming out of the closet.
As many of us in Trans World are aware of, our right wing opponents have been busy scaring their people with the debunked bathroom predator lies in a desperate attempt to stop the passage of trans inclusive non-discrimination policies.
They have taken those attacks to another reprehensible level by attacking trans kids, who as the US Department of Education has pointed out, transgender students are protected under Title IX.
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) in the U.S. Department of Education
today issued official guidance which makes clear that transgender
students are protected from discrimination under Title IX. Title IX is a
federal civil rights law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of
sex in federally funded education programs and activities. Specifically,
the guidance states that "Title IX's sex discrimination prohibition
extends to claims of discrimination based on gender identity or failure
to conform to stereotypical notions of masculinity or femininity and OCR
accepts such complaints for investigation." [GLSEN, 4/29/15]
Media Matters decided to ask 17 large school districts covering over 600,000 students nationally if the right wing scenario they drone on about cisgender kids misrepresenting themselves as trans to gain access to opposite gender facilities is actually occurring.
And as you probably guessed, the conservalie isn't true. These 17 large school districts stated there not only have been ZERO incidents of the type conservafools have been frothing at the mouth about.
So not surprisingly, the conservative lie claiming that protecting transgender students in school settings results in confusion and inappropriate behavior is demonstrably false. It also corroborates what was discovered last year in the evisceration of the trans bathroom predator lie.
There's that pesky truth rearing its liberal biased head again.
So the next time your conservafool FOX noise watching uncle or aunt ties the bring up this lie, hit them with this avalanche of truth.
Today starts the 14th annual Philadelphia Trans Health Conference, and once again something has come up that has prevented me from attending it..
Guess I'm going to have to go to last year's strategy of not planning on going, and then things will fall into place and I'll be at the Pennsylvania Convention Center for it.
Anyway, let me get over being bummed I'm not there for it and get back to reporting on the country's (and possibly the world's) largest trans themed conference with over 3000 attendees..
The welcoming ceremony for this year's conference kicks off at 8:45 AM EDT and as usual it will be packed with informative seminars over the next three days.
And the timing of it once again comes at an interesting moment for the trans community with all the media attention on trans issues post-Caitlyn Jenner reveal. The other thing I love about it is that the PTHC is blessed to have attendance and panels from trans people and leaders from around the world in addition to the professional tracks,.
And once again I'm missing it. I'm also going to miss the start of a new PTHC tradition, a trans flag raising that will fly at Philadelphia City Hall for the duration of the event.form June 4-6
The keynote speakers for this year's edition of the PTHC will be Tiq Milan this afternoon at 1 PM EDT and Trudie Jackson on Friday. Turner Stulting and Peter Fair will be the youth speakers on Thursday and Friday.
So for those of you in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection, have a cheesesteak for me and enjoy the next three days at this year's edition if the PTHC.
I didn't meet her until the summer of 2010, but our multiple conversations since then have revealed our paths crossed in the 90's at a long gone TBLG club called Studio 13.
She's been fighting a pitched legal battle since 2010 to restore her marriage rights, and is the reason the odious Littleton v Prange is dead.
And yeah, she and her best friend Meagan are pretty cool women to hang around that never fail to put a smile on my face when I need it.
She's also married to a wonderful guy and talented artist who loves her to death.
I'm talking about the fabulous Nikki Araguz Loyd, who is celebrating her milestone 40th birthday today. She's had an interesting novel worthy life up to this point, and while she had a few bumps, bruises and challenging moments along the way, never doubt her ability to turn a lemon situation into lemonade and look fabulous while doing so..
Happy milestone birthday Nikki! Hope you have a birthday that is a fabulous as you are, and you are blessed to celebrate many more of them.
Serena Williams Roland Garros business trip is a step closer to a successful conclusion, but she had another slow start that almost derailed it.
She entered her fourth round match with Sloane Stephens mired in a puzzling pattern of getting of getting off to a slow start that puts her in a bind, then clawing back to win the match.
And once again, Serena dropped the first set 1-6 to Stephens, who hadn't beaten Williams since the 2013 Australian Open quarterfinal upset.
Serena woke up after trailing 0-2 in the second set to take it 7-5, and even the match, then punched her ticket to the quarterfinals by taking the third set 6-3 to close out another comeback and face Sara Errani.
In her quarterfinal match with Errani, who has never beaten her, the world number one was determined to avoid the bad starts that had plagued her in her last three French Open matches. Serena took only 63 minutes to overpower her 6-1, 6-3 in a match that included a 123 mph ace.
She's baaaaack....and that may be bad news for Williams' semifinal opponent Timea Bacsinszky. Serena is closing in on her third French Open title, 20th Grad Slam title overall and her third straight Grand Slam since taking the 2014 US Open.
If she gets past Bacsinszky tomorrow, she'll face the winner of the other semifinal being contested between seventh seed Ana Ivanovic and number 13 seed Lucie Safarova.
One of the problems that trans people around the world share is identification that matches who they are now, and barriers to acquiring that ID like requiring genital surgery.
Was nice to hear courtesy of the Transgender Equality Network Ireland thatthe Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection, Joan Burton, T.D. announced that, following the agreement of Cabinet, the application process under the Gender Recognition Bill will for people aged 18 years or more, be based on the person's self-declaration by way of a statutory declaration.
The Gender Recognition Bill will also no longer contain the controversial 'forced divorce' clause that Irish trans people had serious problems with..
"TENI applauds the Government for this hugely significant move. Ireland has now taken its place as an international leader in this human rights area," said TENI Chief Executive Broden Giambrone. "The Government has shown great vision and conviction in ensuring the rights of trans people. This legislation will significantly improve the lived realities of trans people in Ireland."
Speaking after the Cabinet meeting, the Tánaiste said: "Throughout the drafting of this Bill, I have listened carefully to the views of individual citizens, representative groups and public representatives. It is essential that this important legislation is in line with international best practice. That is why we are moving to a self-declaration model for people aged 18 and over. This approach will have no impact on the treatment pathway which is completely separate from the civil registration process."
TENI Chair Sara R. Phillips said after today's announcement: "This is a momentous moment. To be given the respect to self-determine our gender is true equality. For once I can believe our community are seen as full equal citizens. Today I am so proud of our country."
Just west of me in San Antonio is a mayoral runoff election taking place that not only has the eyes of Texas on it, but the national TBLG community as well.
The mayoral election was back on May 9, and pitted embattled interim mayor Ivy Taylor against 13 candidates including former Texas state senator Leticia Van de Putte and former state rep Mike Villarreal.
'Poison Ivy' as she is sarcastically called by the San Antonio LGBT community has been under fire for saying that the San Antonio NDO's TBLG protections are 'a waste of time. She repeatedly snubbed the local BTLG community that had serious reservations in the first place when she was appointed by council to fill HUD Secretary Julian Castro's unexpired term to become San Antonio's first African-American mayor.. She was one of the NO votes when the San Antonio NDO passed back in 2013.
Sen Van de Putte on the other hand is the political polar opposite. In addition to recently running for lieutenant governor, she has been a longtime supporter of our community. She supported the San Antonio NDO, and filed legislation to add sexual orientation and gender identity to Texas non discrimination statues in the areas of employment and housing.
Senator Van de Putte led all candidates on election night by garnering 25,952 votes or 30.3% of the 85,370 votes cast in the May 9 election, with interim Mayor Taylor close behind with 24,235 votes, or 28.40% of the total votes cast. Rep Mike Villarreal just missed the runoff with 22,246 votes, 26.06% of the votes cast.
But since no one got 50% of the vote to win the seat outright, the runoff is being contested between Van de Putte, who has served the city as a state rep from 1991-1999 and a state senator from 1999-2015 and the interim mayor fighting for her first full term she promised not to run for when she was elevated to the interim mayor spot..
The runoff election to decide San Antonio's next mayor will take place on June 13, but the early voting phase of it started yesterday and will run until June 9. Polling stations will be closed on Sunday June 7, but reopen on June 8-9.
It'll be interesting to see which one of these women emerges victorious on June 13, and the TBLG community hopes it will be Sen Van de Putte.
It's Sine Die for the 84th Texas Legislature, and it's official! All the 24 anti--TBLG bills filed, including the 4 anti-trans ones are dead as of 12:01 AM for this session!
Took a lot of cooperative intersectional work to make it happen, but the Texas TBLG community, our advocacy organizations, the hardworking people in them, our citizen lobbyists, and our allies pulled it off.
And many of y'all Texas bashers thought we couldn't do it. But we did.
The 85th Texas Legislative session won't happen until 2017, so we can exhale and prepare for another battle to come. We'll also be on guard for Gov Abbott calling special sessions between now and then as well.
Yeah, and if he does, Equality Texas, TENT and 'errbody' else has my number.
Someone in a spasm of creativity decided to do a parody of the Caitlyn Jenner Vanity Fair cover in which they stuck Wendy Williams on a fictional EBONY magazine cover with the caption 'Call Me Walter'.
While I have major issues with Wendy Williams problematically using transphobia in her rise to shock-jock radio and television fame, insultingly misgendering Viola Davis in 2012 for daring to wear natural hair on the Oscar red carpet, and another incident in which she repeated debunked stereotypes about trans athletes on her talk show, at the same time I've also had a major problem with people, and especially the Black gossip blogosphere misgendering her.
The reason I have such a problem with it is because of the 'Black Unwoman Meme, the femininity of Black women has been under attack for four centuries by whiteness and white supremacy. It infuriates me when Black people participate in the demonization of our own women.
Transmisogyny is not just aimed at Black trans women, it is also aimed at any cis Black woman deemed to not measure up to subjective beauty standards not designed with us in mind.
Misgendering is one of the methods that critics have used to attack any Black woman they don't like, with the most recent examples of that type of misgendering being Venus and Serena Williams, Brittney Griner, Fantasia, Ciara and First Lady Michelle Obama.
If you didn't find the attacks on the FLOTUS' femininity by Joan Rivers and right wingers humorous, then for the sake of consistency neither are those attacks warranted or humorous when they are aimed at Wendy Williams or any other Black woman.
The Jenner Vanity Fair July cover and photo shoot will be in the issue hitting newsstands on June 6, and like the Diane Sawyer interview, it's generating media coverage and generating conversation inside and out side the trans community.
And we have finally learned Jenner's femme name. I presume we'll find out later how Jenner came to choose that name, but interestingly enough she didn't spell it with a 'K'.
No matter what your opinion is on how this Caitlyn Jenner femme rollout has transpired, the bottom line is that it is generating a much needed discussion on trans issues across the media, and especially in Trans World.
I believe that any positive discussion that happens about trans people in the USA and educates the moveable middle is good for the entire trans community.
Caitlyn will also be getting the ESPY's Arthur Ashe Courage Award that has been given to the late Stuart Scott and Robin Roberts just to name two recipients of it.
Personally I think Fallon Fox should have gotten that award, but nevertheless that's another Jenner accomplishment that should be celebrated and cheered by our community.
The attention Caitlyn is getting also gives the rest of us in Trans World an opening with our local media outlets to spring off of that attention and shape a trans discussion that touches upon the issues that we deem important in our local communities..
Yes, there will be some haters and jealous folks in our trans ranks upset because they aren't getting that kind of media attention that rates a photo shoot by Annie Leibovitz.
Some of transkind will be pissed because they don't have access to the finances, surgeons, laser epilation and trans specific medical care that is going to speedily upgrade Caitlyn's body from one of a former Olympic champion to the babe that has been inside her for 65 years and is now being introduced to her family and the world.
Hell, I'm envious of that at times even with cis women with hourglass shapes, but unfortunately, that's life. Sometimes we get DNA blessings that others don't. There will be women cis and trans who are smarter, prettier and sexier. Hormones can also be much more generous to some trans women than others. Some have the finances to get the trans specific procedures they need when they want them while others will have to wait decades or never be able to get them..
All I or any trans woman can do is work with the hand that we're dealt and evolve to become the best women we can be.
But instead of hating, let's celebrate the fact a trans woman made the cover of Vanity Fair. Let's celebrate the fact we have a positive discussion happening about trans issues right now that will potentially speed up the timetable for trans human rights achievement. Let's celebrate the fact this may be another huge step toward the attainment of our ultimate goal of acceptance of trans people's humanity in all facets of our society.
And let's celebrate the fact that Caitlyn is finally coming out of a cocoon she's been in for 65 years and is coming out to the world as her true self.
Today is also the start of the 2015 Atlantic hurricane season. Those of us living along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the US will be nervously casting our eyes toward the Atlantic from now until November toward the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico watching for storms to develop into potential hurricanes that could threaten our areas.
We have already had one named storm, Ana make landfall in the US in a year that is being forecast because of El Nino to be a below normal one for storms.
But those of us in Houston can't forget that in 1983, a year in which there were only four hurricanes, a Category 3 one whacked us named Alicia.
In case you're wondering, the rest of the 2015 storm names are Bill, Claudette, Danny, Erika, Fred, Grace, Henri, Ida, Joaquin, Kate, Larry, Mindy, Nicholas, Odette, Peter, Rose, Sam, Teresa, Victor and Wanda.
While many of us know the drill concerning having hurricane prep packs, emergency supplies, and evacuation routes out of our coastal cities and towns that don't involve traveling on interstate highways, as Hurricane Katrina taught us in 2006, we LGBT people also have to sadly consider homophobia and transphobia when hurricane season approaches and those hurricane preparedness drills happen..
We had the disgusting situation in the Houston area of reports of LGBT evacuees in the wake of Hurricane Katrina being harassed at shelters in the local suburbs. One trans feminine evacuee unfortunately spent a few days in jail for simply taking a shower in the area matching her gender presentation at a shelter on the Texas A&M campus.
So ever since that incident, the Houston LGBT community has put together lists of people and allies who would be willing to put up BTLG evacuees in their homes in the wake of a hurricane or other natural disaster, and it's probably something that coastal communities with sizable LGBT populations should be doing in their areas.
So is your local TBLG community hurricane ready? Now is the time to get prepared to do so if you aren't.
Gotta love it when hypocrisy is called out, and Whoopi Goldberg did so on The View Thursday in the wake of the Duggars jacked up exclusive interview with Megyn Kelly on FOX Noise trying to conservasplain their son Josh being a pedophile to five girls, four of their own daughters, and them covering it up.
