Comments on: Douglass

By: Madame George

Madame George — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:59:14 +0000

I think it has a lot to do with feeling like it’s okay to be a roadie, but not okay to feel like one of the band. It’s like I’m seen as queer by association and somehow that marginalizes my own experience. I really don’t know. There are still times I feel like I’m trapped between worlds. Queered by the Hets and Hetted by everyone else. I’m just tired of being othered.

By: Are Partners of Trans Necessarily LGBT(Q)? « TRANScend GENDER

Are Partners of Trans Necessarily LGBT(Q)? « TRANScend GENDER — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 19:14:19 +0000

[...] Partners of Trans Necessarily LGBT(Q)? Posted on December 27, 2008 by Khyri Over at Helen Boyd’s blog, the question comes up of whether partners of transpeople identify as being under the LGBT umbrella [...]

By: SusanK

SusanK — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 22:27:58 +0000

Interesting. Despite my status, whatever that is, I get angry when people demand that only personal experience is primary, and often the first, criteria used to qualify for something. I’m not discounting personal experience, but the LGBT community is then dismissing a lot of people who have supported the community for years and decades. And it can be argued those folks have provided more results than the community itself.

The community needs their voice, whatever flavor of personhood that is, and denying them support is discrimination. If the community can’t or won’t support them, who else will? I don’t see a lot of non-LGBT organizations offering scholarships for LGBT issues. It’s about supporting the diversity of humanity. Everything else is incidental.

By: Autumn Sandeen

Autumn Sandeen — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 22:17:12 +0000

It’s a good quote, and a good sentiment. And btw, you shouldn’t be afraid to identify with LGBT even if you don’t fit exactly within the four letters of the listed alphabet soup. Most progressive LGBT people understand that Q’s, I’s, A’s, as well as other letters, are in the soup even when we don’t actually say those letters when we say “LGBT.” You belong Helen if you see yourself as being a part of, or allying with the community.

By: Rommie

Rommie — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 18:58:33 +0000

Thanks for ending with a quote from one of the moderately unsung greats, Frederick K. Douglass.

I am glad that out of the past few years of tribulation of trans we have witnessed the emergence of what may turn out to be the biggest uniter of the LGBT communities. “Q.” Got LGQBT?

Great blog entry thanks you the partner who shared too.

By: jackiejoyjones

jackiejoyjones — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 15:19:36 +0000

…it seems the more I learn about you the cooler you become. I know a few trans allies….I live with one…but you are sort of the speaker of the house on this issue. Thanks for what you do so well.

Patty loved the book you signed. I think she’ll find it to be very relevant. Thanks again.