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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!

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Date: 2009-06-27 05:08 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] purrdence.livejournal.com
I hope that keeps the site off the net. I have a friend who is tran*, but not out, because they fear the retributions...

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Date: 2009-06-27 05:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] logansrogue.livejournal.com
Me too, on both counts.

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Date: 2009-06-27 10:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pixienymph.livejournal.com
I was all set to click! But I'm glad it's gone. Bleh, ugh. Not cool.

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Date: 2009-06-28 06:48 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] lauredhel.livejournal.com
The site's gone, but the twitter account is posting real-time "alerts" with street names. This is some menacing shit.

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Date: 2009-06-29 04:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] logansrogue.livejournal.com
Don't know what can be done about that. I'll keep a tabs.

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Date: 2009-06-28 11:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zebeckras.livejournal.com
By the time I saw this (and I think it was within the first ten minutes) the site had already gone done, which is why I didn't comment yet. But thank heaven for word spreading on the internet.

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)
From: [identity profile] logansrogue.livejournal.com
It's so ridiculous because psychologically, it's all WRONG. It's not the way sexual predators work, and it's NOT the way any genuine trans person works. I think the biggest problem is that people never actually interact with transexuals. I've always been a believer of trans rights, but I never deeply understood that the spirit of the person in that body IS the sex they're trying to transition to. But I'm weird like that, I like to fully experience things, then I feel like I truly understand.

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)
From: [identity profile] zebeckras.livejournal.com
I think it would be lovely if people operated that way - with a willingness to change their prejudices by getting to know the real people underneath - but at this point for a lot of people it's so ingrained that they could follow someone around for a week, watching them feed the homeless and heal sick children, and still say "Oh, if only they weren't such sick twisted perverts!" Because only a sick perverted man would want to be a woman.

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)
From: [identity profile] logansrogue.livejournal.com
I probably wasn't clear. People need to be brought up not thinking of these people as something "other". They're just normal people in the wrong bodies.

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!

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