Archie #636 Gender Swap Story

Been talking about 'The Great Switcheroo' story in various posts for the last few years, and now you'll get to eyeball the Archie #636 issue in which after hearing an age old argument in Pop's Choklit Shoppe about whether women or men have it easier in life, Sabrina's mischievous cat Salem casts a spell that flips the gender script in Riverdale.

Everyone in town except Sabrina wakes up to a flipped gender roles as Salem watches everything play out through his crystal ball.  Even Hot Dog gets gender swapped to become a female poodle named Haute Dog.

Archie, Reggie, Moose, Dilton and Jughead become Archina, Regina, Mouse, Dilly and JJ.  Moose makes the most radical transition from being a hulking athlete to a petite blonde with the desire to start a women's football team.  . JJ still has her appetite, Regina is a diva pranksters

The gender swap extends to Josie and the Pussycats, who become Joey and the Junkyard Dogs.

Veronica and Betty become Billy and Ronnie, and the love triangle now has them chasing Archina for her affections.   Billy becomes Riverdale's star athlete in the process, and Ronnie is still the rich kid in town trying to use his fiscal advantage to blunt Billy's athletic prowess which as caught Archina's attention

Even Mr. Weathersbee, Pops,  Ms. Beazly and Ms Grundy and the parents are part of the swap..

Amazing First PTHC Day For Me

This was actually the second day of the Philadelphia Trans Health Conference, but it was the first day of the conference for me after arriving from DC at midnight EDT..

I had an amazing 8 AM Brynn Tannehill moderated panel with Mari Brighe and Joanna Cifredo on it discussing media.   Was told by several attendees of the panel that I bumped into as the day progressed they thoroughly enjoyed it.

Lunch with Dionne Stallworth to get my cheesesteak craving satisfied, and substantive conversations with  a long list of people that I saw today capped off by me making an appearance at the transkids function hosted by Jeanette and Jazz Jennings and a Trans United Fund dinner for the steering committee.

I enjoyed talking to everyone I saw today, and as a reminder, I'll be here tomorrow to check out various panel discussions on the Saturday #PTHC2016 schedule

Shut Up Fool Awards-Moni's On The East Coast Again Edition

It's been an interesting weekend for me because I'm getting to not only go to the 2016 edition of the Philly Trans Health Conference,, I got to do a happy detour through Washington DC so I could go to the White House and attend the last LGBT Pride Reception that President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama would host

It necessitated me flying into DC and then after the ceremony thanks to Fiona Dawson getting a ride up 1-95 to Philadelphia for the PTHC two hours after the reception concluded.

And speaking of just concluded, I'm out of the 8 AM blogging panel discussion that I was part of with Brynn Tannehill, Joanna Cifredo, and Mari Brighe and wandering the halls of the Pennsylvania Convention Center

But this also Friday, and that means it is time to call out the latest group of fools in this week's edition of the TransGriot Shut Up Fool Awards

I'm just going to go straight to this week's winner

This week's Shut Up fool winners is a group award for Brock Turner and his parents Dan and Carleen Turner 

Their sex offender son got a six month slap on the wrist and three years probation by Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky for raping an unconscious woman on the Stanford University campus that became a straight up textbook exercise of White privilege in action.

Naw player, you did the heinous crime, and you/should have done more time for it than six fracking months, of which you`ll only do at least three for good jail behavior.

As for Dan Brock your comments were reprehensible, and pissed me and a lot of people off.  A 'steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action'?  Are you fracking serious?  I can see based on those comments why Brock is an entitled chip off the old block.

What about the 'steep price' the rape survivor will have to pay beyond the six months your son is going to do in jail plus three years of probation?

Carleen, your cries to the judge for mercy for your son don`t resonate with me because if your child was Black, they would be throwing his azz under the jail.   As a matter of fact we have have had far too many cases of Black sons thrown under the jail for simply being accused of rape.

Brock Turner and parents, shut up fools.

Moni's In The Middle Of The White House LGBT Pride Reception

After a emotional United flight up here to BWI in which for once I didn't get jacked up in TSA security, interesting Uber rides on the H-town and BWI ends in which I discussed politics and life in Houston for my BWI Uber driver who is ironically moving to Houston next week with his family , having dinner and drinks with Hayden Mora, Angelica Ross and Ruby Corado, it's now hitting me that I'm finally going to be in the White House for my first LGBT Pride Reception.

It will be the last one that President Obama will host of his administration (sniff, sniff) and looking forward to just soaking it in, tweeting it, taking photos, seeing who is there and taking as many photos as possible.

So far I'm not the only Houstonian up here for it.  Ashton Woods has already let me  know that he'll be there, and I'm anxious to see how much of my trans fam will be in that nice white mansion my ancestors built with their free labor..

I have to be in line at the White House southeast entrance at 2;30 PM EDT to clear security, and y'all know I made damned sure I made sure I put my ID back in my wallet after I cleared TSA security at IAH.

If it's anything like previous White House LGBT Pride Reception events, you might be able to see it on C-SPAN starting around 4 PM EDT.

The 15th Annual Philadelphia Trans Health Conference Starts Today

Something else that is taking place a little over 100 miles from me is the opening day of the Philadelphia Trans Health Conference.  It is arguably the largest attended trans themed event in the world, and will draw close to 3000 attendees to the Pennsylvania Convention Center. .

Looking forward to being there for the morning panel I'll be taking part in on June 10 with Mari Brighe, Joanna Cifredo and Brynn Tannehill, and looking forward to seeing everyone who is in attendance.

So don'tr be shy, say hi to moi if you spot me walking the halls of that ginormous convention center.  I'll probably be in conversations with a lot of people while I'm  there, and would love to do the same with those of you in attendance from the nation and around the world.

See y'all tomorrow at #PTHC2016 after I handle my DC business.

The 2016 Shut Up Fool Of The Year Race- Midyear Review

It's now June, and we have now moved into the halfway point of the year.  We've also moved into the halfway point of the race to determine who will get announced as the Shut Up Fool of the Year on December 31.

Donald Trump was last year's winner, and so far he's on track to repeat when I reveal the 2016 winner of the award on New Year's Eve.    But with five months to go until election day, there will probably be a lot of Shut Up Fool Of The Year worthy commentary .

But there are other contenders I'm watching for this award like Texas Lt. Governor Dan Goeb Patrick, TX indicted AG Ken Paxton, Jonathan Saenz, North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory, Rep Louie Gohmert (R-TX), NJ Gov Chris Christie, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) , RNC Chair Reince Priebus, Stacey Dash, Andrea  Tantaros, Megyn Kelly, Bill O'Reilly, Caitlyn Jenner, Omarosa Manigault, Katrina Pierson, Sandy Rios, Alex Jones, Rev James Dobson. Susan Sarandon, Rosario Dawson and group nods to the Bernie or busters, the Family Research Council, FOX Noise News, the KKK and all you transphobes.

We'll see who wins on December 31.

Interesting East Coast Trip For The Air Marshal

After scrambling for the last few days to make the logistics of this trip work, my departure day has finally arrived.  I'm at my old Houston Intercontinental stomping grounds for the first time in two years to take a flight once again on United to the East Coast.

But this one will be a little more emotional for me.  In addition to getting to see some of the CAL airline peeps who haven't retired yet that I used to work with, Terminal C is where my very public physical transition began back in 1994.

I then add to that emotion by traveling to Washington DC for tomorrow's White House LGBT Pride Reception and the first time ever I get to attend..

After seven years of frustratingly not being invited to it, I finally got the nod, and most importantly to me is I got to go when President Obama is still in office.  This will be the last LGBT Pride Reception he will host, and I'm so looking forward to being at the White House, seeing who else got invited to attend, and trying not to cry as I observe the event.

Then it's heading up I-95 when that event concludes for the drive up to the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection for the 15th annual Philadelphia Trans Health Conference.

I have a panel discussion on June 10 I'll be participating in with Mari Brighe, Joanna Cifredo and Brynn Tannehill.   Should be an interesting one and i hope those of you in attendance at PTHC come check it out.

It's the second one for me, and I'm looking forward to seeing everyone once I get to DC and Philly..

This will be an interesting trip in which I get to fly to one city and drive to another one.

Historical Women's Election Milestones In California Tonight

While I was watching the speech in which Secretary Clinton claimed a historic political win in Brooklyn, she wasn't the only woman making electoral history tonight.

3000 miles away on the Left Coast three diverse women in California also made political history

In the California US senate primary to replace the retiring Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA), California Democrats were ecstatic to note that the senate seat will stay in Democratic hands because two women emerged to get the top two spots in the primary.

The two Democratic women who emerged from the crowded 34 candidate primary field to replace Sen. Boxer are California Attorney General Kamala Harris and Rep. Loretta Sanchez.  

Harris was favored to win the primary, and she didn't disappoint, taking 40% of the votes and leading Sanchez by over 800,000 votes. Rep. Sanchez, with 17% of the vote is comfortably ahead of the third place Republican candidate Duf Sundheim, who has only 9% of it, so it is she and Harris who will square off November 8 for the seat

If Harris repeats her performance this fall, she would become only the second African-American woman ever elected to the US senate and the first since Sen. Carol Moseley Braun in 1992.  If Sanchez wins, she would become the first ever Latina US senator.

One of our trans sisters also made electoral history tonight as well.. Alameda County Superior Court Judge Victoria Kolakowski was reelected by the voters for another term as judge.  

Judge Kolakowski made history in 2010 when she became the first elected trans trial judge.  

What was even more wonderful about this is that she was unopposed for reelection.  She also serves as president of the International Association of LGBT Judges.

Congrats Your Honor!

It's Official! Hillary Clinton Makes History!

For the first time in US history, we got to watch as a woman  took the stage to claim victory in a major party primary.   Eight years ago Sec. Hillary Clinton came just short of the nomination. but remarked in her speech that '18 million cracks had been made in the glass ceiling'.

Tonight, that glass ceiling was shattered as she became the presumptive presidential nominee of the Democratic Party after wins in New Jersey, New Mexico, South Dakota, and leading big in California.

Sen. Sanders kept to his usual pattern of taking caucuses in predominately white states when he won the North.Dakota caucus and the Montana primary.

As I was listening to her victory speech, had to think about the late Rep. Shirley Chisholm, who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1972 and fell short of it while fighting the boys club in the party every step of the way.   Chisholm's run paved the way for Jesse Jackson, .and later Barack Obama to break through and become the current two term occupant of the Oval Office.

Now we may be witnessing history again as Clinton gets a step closer to becoming our nation's first woman president.   She was congratulated by President Obama for clinching the requisite delegates to lock down presumptive nominee status. .  

As for the big delegate prize of California, Clinton at the time of this writing was up by double digits in the Golden State with 39% of the vote counted.

We probably won't know until tomorrow who won the state, but the trendlines so.far favor Clinton.

But what we do know is that with the wins, Clinton has not only scooped up a majority in pledged delegates, she will have won more states, have more votes over her rival with the final contest in DC happening on June 14.

And while we wait for Sen. Sanders to concede, she and her team can focus on bringing the party together and focusing on defeating Donald Trump..
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Why The Superdelegates Aren't Going To Switch To Bernie

There is this persistent fantasy being pushed in Bernie World that Sanders will get the superdelegates to massively switch to him and give him the nomination because 'it happened to Hillary in 2008'. .

Yeah right.  That has as much chance of happening as moi walking the runway of the next Victoria's Secret runway show.

Let's approach this logically shall we?

First, let's talk about exactly who the superdelegates are.  438 of them are Democratic National Committee members with 434 votes.  They also include the chairs and vice chairs of all 50 state Democratic parties.

20 are distinguished party leaders (DPL).  That means current and former presidents and vice presidents, former congressional leaders and former DNC chairs.   That DPL list of supers includes President Obama, Vice President Biden, former president Jimmy Carter, and former vice president Al Gore for example.  

The 193 Democratic members of the US House of Representatives (including DC and the US territories like the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico American Samoa and Guam)

The 47 US Senate Democrats and the two DC shadow Senators, and the 21 Democratic governors.

Now that we know who the supers are, let's start breaking down why Sanders attempt to get superdelegates to switch will ultimately fail.

This is 2016, not 2008.  Just as wars are not fought with the same tactics you used in a previous one, neither are political campaigns.  The events that happened in presidential campaign 2008 while instructive and you can learn lessons from them, are not guaranteed to repeat themselves in the next campaign.

Let's get it out there the first dirty secret of the Sanders campaign.  Bernie only joined the Democratic Party last year and admitted he did so only to go after the Democratic nomination and stated it would be harder for him to run for president as an independent. . He is not a Democrat, he is a DINO.

Bernie also has a long history of demonizing the Democratic party going back to 1985. He also called for the primary challenge of President Obama, which means he is not going to be successful in getting President Obama's superdelegate vote, much less many Black superdelegates who haven't forgotted Sanders dissing southern Black Democratic voters.   They also haven't forgotten many of you Berners racistly dissed Rep John Lewis (a superdelegate BTW) and Black voters consistently rejected Bernie at at 86-14% clip. .

Bernie does slightly better with Latinos, being rejected by them by a 75-25% clip. They have issues with Bernie as well, which means he won't be getting many Latino superdelegates to switch either, especially after he accused the Puerto Rico Democratic Party of 'fraud' and the Berners dissing of Latina civil rights icon Dolores Huerta early in the campaign.. And like Black voters, a majority of Latinx voters aren't feeling the Bern either as was demonstrated on Sunday in Puerto Rico. 

And note that out of all his senate colleagues who are superdelegates, only Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon supports him. That speaks volumes 
Sanders acting like a vanillacentric privileged spoiled brat and blaming everyone but himself for his various primary losses is also not endearing him to the superdelegates.

Contrary to what the Sanders campaign is telling you, Sanders is not the better candidate against Trump. He wasn't really vetted and his dirty laundry wasn't given a proper airing. The Repblicans are praying we'll be stupid enough to nominate a candidate they desperately want to run against and paint his 'Democratic Socialist' behind as the second coming of Marx and Lenin.  Trump would spank that behind once they unleash all the unvetted hell on him that Hillary didn't do. 
Then there's the fact that Hillary has 40 years of Democratic Party history, was the First Lady in her husband Bill's administration, elected twice as the US senator from New York and the former secretary of state serving under President Obama .  Being she was on the losing end of a tighter presidential race in 2008 and hadled it with dignity and clas , female Democratic leaders, and especially seasoned Democratic female leaders see this as the best chance of their lifetime to make their presidential dream come true and they aren't throwing away this opportunity for a DINO.   .

Attacking Sen. Barbara Boxer (another superdelegate) in addition to the sexist and nasty commentary that has been aimed at Hillary Clinton in this campaign, in addition to stating you will continue to attack her will only ossify their support for Clinton.

In 1984, Gary Hart tried the same tactic that Bernie Sanders is about o attempt in flipping superdelegates that committed to Walter Mondale before the convention and failed miserably.

We know the stakes of the election this November and see the big picture.  Many of the Bernie or bust people tragically don't.

So good luck with that quixotic doomed to failure attempt to flip the superdelegates.
 

2016 Transgender Day Of Resources & Healthy Living This Saturday

One of the things that is a problem for many trans folks is not only getting affordable regular medical care, but medical care that is culturally competent.


It was a void that Dee Dee Watters and Transgender Women of Color United for Change (TWCUC) sought to address with the inaugural event in November 2014 that not only was a success with over 100 attendees, it probably saved my life.

While killing time waiting for a panel to start, I decided since I'd been through some extremely stressful drama with a family member to give the TSU medical students a little practice in checking blood pressure.  I hadn't been to the doctor on a regular basis in several years, and when those smiling students put the cuff on me, I discovered that my blood pressure was highly elevated enough to where if it had gone unchecked, it could have produced a stroke.

Stroke is what killed my father in 2013, and it alarmed me to the point that I started making arrangements over the next few weeks to go back to the doctor on a regular basis, get back on my hormones, and drop some weight since I was tipping the scales at 275 pounds at the time and unhappy about it.   I was also close to being in Type II diabetes territory, and wanted no part of that either. .

I've dropped 40 pounds since then, clear of the Type II diabetic zone, and shooting to drop another 20 pounds and keep it off.  I'm also happier since I'm back on my hormones now.

It's why I'm enthusiastically supporting the 2016 edition of the Transgender Day Of Resources & Healthy Living which is geared specifically for the Houston area transgender and gender nonconforming community.

This is a free event for all who identify as transgender or gender nonconforming people and those who love them.

The purpose of this event is to provide a safe space where those who identify as transgender or gender nonconforming can gain access to knowledge for healthier living and much needed resources and workshops geared to assist people to navigate their transition journey in a safe and healthy way.
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Some of the workshops that will be available during this event running from 10 AM-3 PM will cover name and gender marker changes and plastic surgery.

TDORHL2016 will take place this Saturday as I mentioned from 10-3 PM at the Montrose Center, so come check it out Houston area trans fam and allies.   It could save your life like it did mine and put you on the path to healthier living.   

Democratic Omega Primary Today

The AP and NBC News has determined that Sec. Hillary Clinton has made some long awaiting history.and become the first woman to successfully win the nomination of a major political party

However, the Sanders folks don't see it that way, but math and reality are irrefutable. After sweeping the Caribbean contests in the Virgin Islands caucus and Puerto Rico, in blowout fashion, the Clinton team is focused on building on the Caribbean momentum in the six upcoming races today, consolidating their case the 2016 Democratic Party presidential nomination is theirs, and shift to party unification and vigorously opposing  Republican nominee Donald Trump in the fall.

Superdelegates matter Bernie supporters. The fact that Clinton has two million more voter that Sanders explain why she has built that insurmountable lead that has led to her busting through that electoral glass ceiling.

As I mentioned, six states will hold primaries and caucus on this June 7 date with the big prize of the what's being billed as the Omega Primary being New Jersey (148 delegates) and California (548 delegates).

Montana (27 delegates) , New Mexico (43 delegates) and South Dakota (25 delegates) will have primary elections while North Dakota will have a caucus (23 delegates)

We'll find out in a few hours what happens, but in the meantime, if you live in any of these Omega primary states, handle your business because there are other candidates in races besides the presidential primary who are counting on your votes. .

Mesquite, TX Passes Trans Inclusive EEO Policy Update

In breaking news from North Texas, looks like the ongoing negative attacks on trans people by Gov Abbott, Lt. Governor  Goeb Patrick  AG Ken Paxton and the Texas GOP have started to have the opposite effect.

According to Lone Star Q, the city council of the eastern Dallas suburb of Mesquite, TX just voted tonight despite opposition from the Texas Bigots Values haters to add trans, bi and SGL workers to their city's Equal Employment Opportunity policy.

“Sorry to disappoint everyone, this isn’t the bathroom war…no matter what a political hack from Austin tells you in a fundraising email,” Mesquite Councilman Jeff Casper said. “Let me be clear: This policy has no effect on public restrooms. It simply states that the city of Mesquite’s employment decisions will be based on character and merit.”

As I keep pointing out, while the haters may have some loud voices, we LGBT peeps in the Lone Star State are continuing to fight for the type of inclusive and equitable Texas we wish to make a reality.

Congrats Mesquite and everyone who worked on getting this done for over a year.

RIP Amos Beede

One of the things we don't talk about often enough in Trans World is that trans men also are assaulted and attacked for being themselves, and from time to time they are fatal assaults.

An example of this happened May 22, in which 38 year old trans man Amos Beede, who wasn't homeless, but was staying with friends over the weekend in a homeless encampment in Burlington, VT because the local bus wasn't running.  Beede was viciously assaulted and kicked by four homeless people and suffered blunt force trauma to his brain, facial injuries and several broken ribs in what has been described as a 'possible bias incident'..  

He was taken to the University of Vermont Medical Center where Beede died seven days later as the four suspects in the case immediately fled Vermont in a Chevy Malibu and headed to California    They were briefly detained in Roswell, NM when 21 year old Erik Averill, was arrested and held on accusations of assaulting his intimate partner, 22 year old Myia Barber.

Once Averill was released, the four continued their journey to California, where they were arrested Thursday night at Dog Beach, a San Diego homeless encampment by San Diego PD officers after a nationwide manhunt..

Averill and Barber, 25 year old Alison Gee, and 21 year old Jordan Paul were all arrested and charged with second degree murder and are facing extradition back to Vermont to face the legal music there.

Rest in power and peace Amos.   We will be tracking this case to see if you receive justice.

Clinton Sweeps Caribbean Democratic Contests

Break out the broom, because Sec. Hillary Clinton had a great weekend in the Caribbean without riding on a cruise ship or going on vacation..

This weekend there were two Democratic presidential nomination contests in the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico worth a combined 79 delegates, and Sec. Clinton has taken both of them.

She overwhelmingly took the Virgin Islands caucus on Saturday, and in the Puerto Rico primary went on to another overwhelming win there.

With the 36 delegates as of this writing she picked up during her Caribbean sweep, she is now poised to clinch the nomination in 24 hours when the Democratic Omega Primaries kick off.

It also proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that Black and Latino voters matter when it comes to Democratic primary races.

Looks like I hear an opera singer warming up and singing the 'It's Over' aria.

 But then again that was obvious to anyone grounded in political reality.  She's no less than 30 delegates away from clinching the Democratic presidential nomination, and how apropos for it to happen on the day that she conceded the race to President Obama back in 2008.

Tuesday will be a historic day for this country and Sec. Hillary Clinton despite Bernie Sanders and his followers unwillingness to deal with it.  But it's past time for this contest to be over so that we can focus as a party on beating Donald Trump in the fall.

The Transphobes Look Stupid Now

One of the things I've been pondering lately is that iconic photo of an impeccably dressed teenage Elizabeth Eckford, a member of the Little Rock Nine, proudly making her way to her first day of classes at the newly integrated Little Rock Central High through a hostile white mob as a teenage Hazel Bryan Massery screams at her.

We've seen that moment immortalized in an iconic photo that pissed Louis Armstrong off in a epic rant that probably motivated President Dwight Eisenhower to send federal troops to Little Rock.

As for Ms Eckford and Ms Bryan-Massery, they eventually reunited under less contentious circumstances at the 40th anniversary of that event, and in 1999 on the Oprah Winfrey Show stage in 1999 as Hazel Bryan Massery continues her journey to atone for her actions conducted on that September 1957 morning that negatively impacted Elizabeth Eckford's life.

As far as the crowd of people in the top picture in this meme are concerned, so far don't know if they have expressed regrets for their back in the day bigot eruptions..

Speaking of bigot eruptions, we now have predominately conservative white people who have failed to l;earn from past history and are repeating it by trying to oppress another marginalized minority group.

The Republican Party, the Southern Baptists, white fundamentalists and TERFs (trans exclusionary/exterminationalist radical feminists) have united in an Axis of Trans Intolerance with the mission to hate on and attempt to turn their transphobic bigotry into public policy.  

And we won't have to wait forty years to see if the transphobes look stupid, they look, act and sound that way in real time, and their transphobic scribblings, hate speech and actions are being preserved for historical posterity

As we learned from the history of the African-American civil rights movement and the LGBT rights movement, those conservative efforts are doomed to failure since conservatives have been on the wrong side of human rights issues for the last two centuries.

But they still declared World War T on us anyway.

With the trans rights moment increasingly shaping up in the words of Vice President Joe Biden as the civil rights issue of our time, four decades from now your kids, grandkids and great grandkids will be asking you the question when trans human rights are an undeniable fact in ours and their lives where you stood during this early 21st century time they will probably be studying in their history books.

UCLA Bruin Republicans Haley Nieves, Victoria Metzel, Julia Nista and UC-Santa Barbara's Carlos Flores, the transphobic quartet in the bottom half of that meme, like a lot of trans oppression enablers will have to admit (if they ever evolve and are brutally honest with themselves) they were on the transphobic side of the moral arc of the human rights universe.

Their fellow Bruins seem to think so and condemned them for their hate speech as they do what Republicans always do, avoid taking responsibility for their bigoted and transphobic actions.

And ladies, FYI, it is hatred of trans people that is the mental disorder. You may also wish to while you're matriculating on the UCLA campus take a class with Dr Eric Vilain to 'ejumacate' you on the latest science as it pertains to sexual orientation and gender identity.

We'll see if over time Haley, Victoria, Julia, Carlos and other assorted transphobic haters evolve, or are forced to do so if karma kicks them in the behind and blesses them with a transgender child, grandchild or relative to speed up that evolution.

But whether that happens or not, based on their current nekulturny behavior, this transphobic quartet will have to grow up first and realize that they, like all transphobes in this nation and around the world are the people who look stupid now, not the people they sought to demonize

Bye, Stacey!

Been wondering when the conservafool movement would deploy their Kneegrow Auxiliaries to regurgitate the same trans hate the GOP politicians and conservative white folks have been spouting for the last few months.

Well, I now have my answer.  The sellout kneegrow (they don't deserve to be called Black) pastors were recently deployed to coon it up in North Carolina for the unjust Hate Bill 2, and now Stacey Dash has received her marching orders from her conservafool paymasters..

Ever since I first saw Stacey Dash in the movies Mo' Money and Illegal In Blue and later Clueless, I've been a fan.. The brothers drooled over her photo shoots in various Black men's magazines.  But over the last several years that has waned as she has started drinking the conservafool Kool-Aid.

Now that the FOX Noise Fembot has revealed herself to be an unrepentant transphobe, as far as I and everyone else in Black Trans World and our allies are concerned it's Bye, Stacey time.

Since you're a clueless conservaidiot, pun intended, let me break this simple concept down for you Ms. Dash.  Trans women are women, trans men are men.  We're also human beings.

Let my unapologetic Black trans behind tell your sellout ass where I and every other trans woman on this planet will be going to poop and pee, and wash our hands when we're done.  It won't be in the bushes, it'll be in the women's bathroom stall right next to you, just as we have been doing for your entire life and you probably didn't even know it.

And oh yeah, guess you forgot there are Black trans people whose #BlackTransLivesMatter to all who love them.   It is our lives that have been and will be disproportionately affected by the anti-trans violence and GOP legislative discrimination that your transphobic words gleefully endorse.
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Trans people demanding to have our humanity be treated with dignity and respect and our human rights recognized is not as you disrespectfully put it 'the tyranny of the minority'.  And how dare you as part of the conservative tyranny of the minority peddle that debunked anti-trans bathroom lie so you can peddle your new book that only the FOX Noise watching ignorati will read

Bye, Stacey.   And on behalf of Black Trans America, you can kiss our unapologetically Black trans behinds..

One Down, One To Go In Puerto Rico

The Caribbean primary weekend is almost over, and Sec. Hillary Clinton moves even closer to clinching the Democratic Nomination and the Omega Primaries on Tuesday.

But first up was  the Virgin Islands caucuses, and it wasn't even close.  Clinton on an overwhelming victory, getting 1306 votes to Bernie Sanders 190.

That gives her a little momentum going into the Puerto Rico primary today, and the Omega Tuesday primaries in which  California, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota and South Dakota all have nominating contests, with the huge delegate prizes being California and New Jersey.  

One down, one to go until we can say 'Democratic Nominee Hillary Clinton'.

The 2016 USA Women's Olympic B-Ball Squad Is Set

If you were wondering who made the 12 person USA women's Olympic basketball squad that will be seeking to win its sixth consecutive gold medal since 1996, I'm about to tell you.

I jokingly call the Team USA women the 'UConn All-Stars' because of the number of former players USA head coach Geno Auriemma usually selects for his Team USA FIBA world championship and Olympic women's squads.  Hey, they keep winning medals, so I ain't mad at him or the USA Baskeball selection committee for doing so.

There are only five UConn alums on the 2016 Olympic team headed to Rio, but the 2016 Olympic ballers will be Seimone Augustus, Sue Bird, Tamika Catchings, Tina Charles, Elena Delle Donne, Sylvia Fowles, my Houston homegirl Brittney Griner, Angel McCoughtry, Maya Moore, Breanna Stewart, Diana Taurasi, and Lindsay Whalen  .

Coaching this team in addition to Auriemma will be assistant coaches Doug Bruno of DePaul, Cheryl Reeve of the Minnesota Lynx and Dawn Staley of the University of South Carolina.

When the Team USA women begin pursuit of their sixth consecutive gold medal and seventh all time on August 7, they will start Group B play with Senegal, followed on August 8 by the No 4 qualifier still to be determined by the Women's Olympic Qualifying tournament in Nantes, France from June 13-19.   Team USA will then face Serbia on August 10, Canada on August 12 and the No. 2 qualifier on August 14 to close out group play.


They are 58-3 in Olympic competition, and will also be when they step on the court in Rio attempting to build on a 41 game winning streak that dates back to the bronze medal game of the 1992 Barcelona Games

Should be fun to watch Team USA hopefully roll to a sixth straight Olympic title, but we have to play the games first..


TransGriot Update: The five teams that emerged from the June 13-19 FIBA Women's Olympic Qualifying tournament were the host France, Belarus, Turkey, China and Spain.   France, Belarus and Turkey are in Group A. China and Spain ended up in Group B with the USA. 

Cheryl Courtney Evans Calls Out A Transphobe

"She really sounds like a TERF  (Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist), but maybe she's just a transphobic idiot, who was mistakenly put in a position she didn't need to fill, any more that a homo-/trans-phobic doctor/minister needs to head up an AIDS prevention/treatment organization [couldn't be trusted to do his or her BEST for us].I'm glad she didn't "fly under the radar" as she torpedoed efforts by other ACLU members! Maya Dillard Smith needs to take a couple of seats and STFU!!!" --Cheryl Courtney-Evans, May 30, 2016

I have frequently said on this blog and across the Net that the most dangerous bigot is one with legislative power.   Well, another dangerous bigot is one who shapes policy in an advocacy organization that you are counting on to help fight for your human rights.

My trans siblings in the ATL had that second situation happen recently when the interim director of the Georgia ACLU, Maya Dillard Smith, resigned from her post because she was unwilling as the interim director of that organization to fight for the human rights and the humanity of trans people.

Bye, Stacey  (no more Bye, Felecia), because in honor of that transphobic rhymes with itch Stacey Dash, that's what I'm using from now on.

Anyway back to focusing on the current issue. Cheryl called her out for her transphobia in this blog post y'all need to read, and the haters have come out to play in the comment thread.

She just doubled down on the justified criticism of Dillard Smith and all peeps who think like the former interim director in terms of drinking the right wing Hateraid and ignorance when it comes to trans peeps.in another post.

She could use a little help with some positive comments in those threads, so help one of our trans elders out in dropping some truth in those comment threads.  

And I stand with Cheryl.   One thing we don't need in this World War T trans human rights fight is lukewarm alleged allies.or so called friends who are worse than our right wing enemies.
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