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Comment on Move ENDA Now by wer

wer — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:54:17 +0000

but when you call make sure to ask that this transphobic language is taken out! http://www.transadvocate.com/g.....y-days.htm

Comment on Move ENDA Now by ohthebill

ohthebill — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:19:20 +0000

Pelosi’s statement:

Drew Hammill, Speakers Spokesperson: “The Speaker believes passing ENDA is a top priority, and hopes that we can bring ENDA up as soon as possible. That being said, the right time to bring the measure to the floor will be when we have the votes.”

http://gay.americablog.com/201.....about.html

Comment on Trans Documentary Drinking Game by Womyn-Born-Womyn Policies and Kink (or, what I learned on Sunday) « Light Up My…

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:16:33 +0000

[...] *There was one on Dr. Phil a year or two ago. I could have gotten plastered playing Helen Boyd’s Trans Documentary Drinking Game while that was [...]

Comment on Drinking Game Redux: Stanton Biopic on CNN by ClaireJ

ClaireJ — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:18:29 +0000

Couldn’t have put it better. Not watching it.

Comment on Drinking Game Redux: Stanton Biopic on CNN by Véronique

Véronique — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:15:50 +0000

I’m glad we don’t have CNN among our meagre array of cable channels, but I think I would have given this one a miss anyway.

If anyone makes a transition documentary that’s not the same old, wake me up.

Comment on Books by Donna

Donna — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 05:30:01 +0000

I actually thought about that recently, Helen. As well as the fact that it’s 7 years now since you were writing the book, and since I first met you and R. I don’t necessary like to look at the pages in mhb that mention me. It was all so long ago, and so much has changed since then.

Donna

Comment on Gender Normative by ginasf

ginasf — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:08:31 +0000

^Correction: “to erase those issues.”

Comment on Gender Normative by ginasf

ginasf — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:07:47 +0000

Anything “normative” is about privilege. Would you want someone to be called “sexual orientation normative”? Moreover, you’re trying to deny the real issues your trans partner faces vs. the issues you do. What gender does it say on your driver’s license vs. her drivers license? How would you each be treated in health care? What do each of your birth certificates state? Who is more likely to encounter violence because of their gender? What’s on the passport each of you needs to present in order to even get a job these days? Cisgender does not equate with transphobic except that, in the real world, people who have issues with it tend to also be the ones who are blind to their privilege.

Sorry, but doing a little genderfuck doesn’t entitle you to make to erase those issues.

Comment on NYS Assembly passes GENDA by kiri

kiri — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:30:31 +0000

As usual for these bills, the article says it “bans discrimination against transgender people.”

But if it prohibits discrimination based on gender identity or expression, doesn’t that cover everyone? Doesn’t it protect a woman from being fired because her boss thinks she should use more make-up? Doesn’t it protect the guy who is harassed at work because his co-workers think that real men don’t wear earrings, or pink shirts, or whatever?

These regulations are usually sold as protections for a small beleaguered minority, but I think they actually benefit a much larger segment of the population.

Comment on Because It’s Sunday by ronnierho

ronnierho — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:15:16 +0000

“Oh, and by the way, your Uncle Carl is here. He’d really like to take you… fishing.”

I love how his hands keep moving, even when Mom is talking to him.