Comments on: Trans-centric http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/2009/07/20/trans-centric/ helen boyd's journal of gender & trans issues Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:54:17 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Sophia K http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/2009/07/20/trans-centric/comment-page-1/#comment-62623 Sophia K Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:55 +0000 http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/?p=8610#comment-62623 Additionally, the only gender/sexual minority murder victim who seemed to matter in the years prior to trans rallying over Gwen Araujo and wider knowledge of Brandon Teena following Boys Don't Cry was... Matthew Shepard. And our lives STILL are never as valuable as his was. Additionally, the only gender/sexual minority murder victim who seemed to matter in the years prior to trans rallying over Gwen Araujo and wider knowledge of Brandon Teena following Boys Don’t Cry was… Matthew Shepard. And our lives STILL are never as valuable as his was.

]]> By: shemale http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/2009/07/20/trans-centric/comment-page-1/#comment-62621 shemale Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:34:20 +0000 http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/?p=8610#comment-62621 Okay: - Nine of the people listed there were trans women of color (yes, Lawrence King was a trans girl, no matter how hard the media and cis GLB people have tried to erase that) - Three <i>other</i> people are MAAB transgender (of one sort or another) people of color; taken together with the trans women of color, this accounts for ~26.7% of the people listed--a hugely disproportionately large number when reflected the actual share of the LGBT population as a whole that demographic represents - One <i>other</i> person is a trans man - Of the remaining queer people, many were impacted by intersecting oppressions--many were people of color, homeless, and/or disabled--which in many cases played a clear role, alongside their being queer, in the minds of their murderers - White cis gay people (many of whose referenced murders occurred as far back as the eighties and early nineties), both men and women, are being, intentionally or not, grossly overrepresented as murder victims on that list, which is a huge problem by itself--it invisiblizes and minimizes the reality of the threat of violence faced by trans women of color. So,<i> please.</i> Any context is a fucked up place for a cis woman to tell trans people that they aren't paying enough attention to the murders of cis queer people, but given the fact that you're doing so while referencing that particular list is just outrageous. Okay:
- Nine of the people listed there were trans women of color (yes, Lawrence King was a trans girl, no matter how hard the media and cis GLB people have tried to erase that)
- Three other people are MAAB transgender (of one sort or another) people of color; taken together with the trans women of color, this accounts for ~26.7% of the people listed–a hugely disproportionately large number when reflected the actual share of the LGBT population as a whole that demographic represents
- One other person is a trans man
- Of the remaining queer people, many were impacted by intersecting oppressions–many were people of color, homeless, and/or disabled–which in many cases played a clear role, alongside their being queer, in the minds of their murderers
- White cis gay people (many of whose referenced murders occurred as far back as the eighties and early nineties), both men and women, are being, intentionally or not, grossly overrepresented as murder victims on that list, which is a huge problem by itself–it invisiblizes and minimizes the reality of the threat of violence faced by trans women of color.

So, please.
Any context is a fucked up place for a cis woman to tell trans people that they aren’t paying enough attention to the murders of cis queer people, but given the fact that you’re doing so while referencing that particular list is just outrageous.

]]> By: jadecath http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/2009/07/20/trans-centric/comment-page-1/#comment-62617 jadecath Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:12:17 +0000 http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/?p=8610#comment-62617 Yeah, "manslaughter" is an incomprehensible way to describe her murder; I'm angry about that verdict and I disagree with calling it a "victory". But directing the anger at other queer people, at *activist* queer people who *work* against the evil... I can't figure out a rational reason for that. All I can come up is that maybe we have so little hope of being heard by the larger society that we vilify the only people we think might listen to us, the only ones who we think might care about our anger. But that's both unjust and defeatist. Yeah, “manslaughter” is an incomprehensible way to describe her murder; I’m angry about that verdict and I disagree with calling it a “victory”. But directing the anger at other queer people, at *activist* queer people who *work* against the evil… I can’t figure out a rational reason for that. All I can come up is that maybe we have so little hope of being heard by the larger society that we vilify the only people we think might listen to us, the only ones who we think might care about our anger. But that’s both unjust and defeatist.

]]> By: Caoimhe http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/2009/07/20/trans-centric/comment-page-1/#comment-62616 Caoimhe Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:01:37 +0000 http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/?p=8610#comment-62616 Wait, what? The problems between LGB and T people are because ... trans people aren't spending enough of our time and energy on dead cis gay men? Do you even look at what you're typing here, cis lady? Wait, what? The problems between LGB and T people are because … trans people aren’t spending enough of our time and energy on dead cis gay men?

Do you even look at what you’re typing here, cis lady?

]]> By: jackiejoyjones http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/2009/07/20/trans-centric/comment-page-1/#comment-62610 jackiejoyjones Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:46:16 +0000 http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/?p=8610#comment-62610 Well said Helen. Well said Helen.

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