Stop "TrannyAlert.com"
Jun. 28th, 2009 01:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
There's a site called TrannyAlert.com that does what its name tells you. People take pictures of trans women, or women that are supposed to look like trans women (whatever that means) and send them into the site where that posted.
We live in a world where young women like Angie Zapata are murdered for not being born in the body they felt they belonged in. When is this bullshit going to end? When are people going to fucking grow up!?
Anyway, follow the link, there's links there to help you do something about it if you want to. Complain! It'll help get rid of the damned site.
ETA: Wow. That was quick! Quoth the Server: 404!
We live in a world where young women like Angie Zapata are murdered for not being born in the body they felt they belonged in. When is this bullshit going to end? When are people going to fucking grow up!?
Anyway, follow the link, there's links there to help you do something about it if you want to. Complain! It'll help get rid of the damned site.
ETA: Wow. That was quick! Quoth the Server: 404!
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Date: 2009-06-28 11:54 am (UTC)The whole Trans thing - or rather, the public reaction to it, not the movement itself - is funny in a way. I guess it's inevitable that people would perceive it as a threat, since they already see something as harmless as two committed people adopting a needy child as a threat if those people are the same gender; but a while ago there was a proposition going around to ban transgendered persons from the restrooms of their non-genetic gender - there was some attempt at fear-mongering. "LADIES! YOU don't want a MAN pretending he's a WOMAN and peeping at you in the toilet, DO YOU?" They even left a robocall on my answering machine one day and when I listened to it that night I was like "Pfft, man, did YOU call the wrong house." :P
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Date: 2009-06-28 12:08 pm (UTC)Anyway, I think if people met them, interacted with them, saw them as something other than sketchy hookers or clownish impersonations of transexuals played up for laughs, they might understand what they go through better. And they won't be so quick to demonise them, because they'll have a human face, not a flimsy stereotype that's easy to dismiss.
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Date: 2009-06-28 09:49 pm (UTC)Since the trans movement really started, I have to admit, it's taken me a while to adjust to fully accepting it - I've been majorly pro-gay rights but didn't know any trans persons (like you said), and the ones I did know peripherally, I had also known to be terribly dramatic soap-opera-esque people, so my initial response was more like "Is this *real*? Or is this just a way to get attention?" It didn't take me too long to broaden my view, fortunately, but it's still a very common one around here. Actually my father has a friend who, in his 40s, decided to begin hormone therapy and live the rest of her life as a woman. My father adapted to this really well and even made an amateur documentary about her, but my mother refuses to call her "her". She's never openly hostile to her face, but it's weird - she's just clearly uncomfortable. I asked her once why she calls her "him", and she says "Because *I'm* a woman. *You're* a woman. He's a man." My mother is mostly pretty open-minded - I guess it's just too late to really challenge that part of her. It surprised me, though.
...She voted against that bathroom proposition I mentioned, though. So I can't get mad at her. *G*
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Date: 2009-06-28 09:59 pm (UTC)I have extended family that are not comfortable with certain aspects of homosexuality. My cousin, who I was very close with growing up, is very much against "feminine" or flamboyant gay men. Which is a shame, cause I love 'em, and my best friend is gay and he has his flamboyant episodes (he wore a pink suit the other day, Gawd, I love him!). I just don't know how to deal with that cause I feel like that part of me as a person is flamboyant gay man, if that makes sense? They've made me so happy and accepted me for who I am. They're my people, Xebbie! LOL!