Who’s to Blame?

Yesterday, I got up and moseyed around a bit…had coffee…and then logged on to check out the news.  I use MSN as my home page, and the very first thing I saw was THIS. 

I groaned.  Another  transgender fruitcake…out, loud, and proud…in your face.  False eyelashes, beard shadow…sequins…gloves…blond wig…a friggin fan…and an Adam’s apple “out to there”…pouty lips…pink pearl lipstick.  Enough to make me vomit.  What a way to start an otherwise nice Sunday morning.  I left MSN…time to check out a news feed or two. 

I found myself reading this piece at the Catholic Exchange entitled “Legalizing Deception: Why “Gender Identity” Should Not be Added to Anti-discrimination Legislation” written by Dale O’Leary.  I had seen the link a few days before and decided to check it out.  Other bloggers have written about it but I just never read those posts.  Most of the time I just tune out when it comes to essays with titles that read like this.  On a whim, I decided to jump into this one.  It is worth reading.  It further exemplifies how transsexual’s identity has been high jacked by the GLB and transgender and in the process our legitimacy continues to suffer. 

The author pushes all the buttons…some of the more ignorant comments from the article : 

What Women Know

By:  Leigh Smith

 

I am just a little bit tired of all the whining and complaining coming from the transgender community.  Well, truth to tell, I am actually down right sick  of it. 

To hear them tell, well, it sounds like a bunch of men stripped of their privileges as the dominant sex, removed to a lower level of the social order where they have to not only compete against other men for equal treatment, but also have to compete against the women they so want to emulate. 

Oh, the inhumanity of it all…

TS/TG “Lesbians”: Who Is…and Isn’t

TS/TG lesbian, for the purpose of this piece, is defined as a female identified male-to-female transsexual/transgender who is attracted to other female identified people whether they be TS/TG or natal. 

There are a lot of TS/TG lesbians…a lot. 

Heart Warming

The first I read of the details of this murder was over at Zoe’s site, A. E. Brain…you can read what I read HERE. 

The gist of the report is that a teenage,  post op  moderator on a TG support site, Raychel Roo, was outed by a lawyer.  Later, while riding her bike to a store she was attacked, gang raped, then beaten…with a sledge hammer…and, then, incredibly…buried alive.  Nonetheless, in spite of both knees being broken and, evidently, enough other head and upper body sledge hammer damage to put her in intensive care where she subsequently died, this person managed to first dig herself out of her grave  before then crawling for three hours  in an effort to get help.  Zoe was having a difficult time.  I read with interest.  Quickly, the report spread around the net.  Below are just a very, very few of the comments from different sites:

No Names, Please…

It’s been a while since I’ve written here.  Perhaps it’s not been long enough for some who read this blog.  I suppose there are reasons why I haven’t written in a while.  Truthfully, there are two…the official reason and then the unofficial one.  Just for kicks and grins, I’ll go ahead and give them too you. 

Maura Hennessey’s Disingenuous Slam

I’ve been busy, but a day or so ago, while catching up, I came across this post Maura Hennessey made at Pam’s House Blend on a piece by Autumn Sandeen entitled What Horizontal Violence Looks Like in Community: 

“My issue with the HBS crowd is this 

It is the loathesome attitude towards the LGBT community, remarks like this, from the owner of a prominent HBS site, tgnonsense:” 

“In fact, attending even an hour, much less a week, with a bunch of butt-ugly, dirty, lesbian-centric, feminist females doing anything is never likely to be on high on my “to do”  list.”

“But…if one day I should decide to attend MWMF, they’ll never know it.  And be truthful, Gynophile, my dear little greasy, motorcycle-smelling dyke, isn’t that what really  bothers you?”

“And then there is this gem from Jennifer:”

“No amount of wishful thinking is going to make things completely safe. But if the TG activists continue this sort of foolishness, more will die.’

by: MauraHennessey @ Wed Apr 29, 2009 at 01:18:22 AM EDT 

 

I had a problem with this post on  several levels and replied to Ms. Hennessey with this as soon as I read it:

 

More Absurdity

From TransGriot: 

“One of the tired memes I hear which gets repeated far too often is if a cisgender male dates a transwoman, he’s automatically slapped with the ‘gay’ label.” 

OK, weird syntax aside, I’m sure you all get where she’s coming from.  To the TeeGee Generation, transwoman  can be almost anyone who offers up gender variance.  It’s important to notice – here at least – that there is no mention of whether we are talking about pre-op, non-op, or post-op…just the word transwoman. 

TransGriot  goes on to say these choice items, all of which are hard to disagree with: 

“…one of the Prime Directives of our WPATH real life tests is that we blend in with society.” 

“Being a transperson also doesn’t stop our sex drives…” 

“Transwomen need love just like any other person walking Planet Earth.” 

“There have been some stunning looking transwomen over the last half century emerge from their cocoons to become beautiful butterflies. If they’re hetero oriented in their sexual orientation, they like going out on dates, revel in being in the company of men, getting candy, flowers, chocolate and enjoy getting intimate with them just like any other estrogen based lifeform.” 

“Since the male species that’s hetero oriented checks out the beauty first as a prelude to chasing the booty, these transwomen, like any beautiful woman do get attention from the male species.” 

But then comes the slow but inevitable slide into absolute absurdity, emphasis mine:

Forever Transitioning

Monica Helms over at Trans Universe recently put up a piece entitled Stuck in Transition.  Monica’s place is one of the blogs I mentioned a while back that has deleted comments I have made there.  Be that as it may, I thought her article was pretty good…a bit apologetic in places, a platform of excuses many use for not  having GRS in others, but pretty good nonetheless.  I would advise a read of it. 

I have often heard that “transition doesn’t stop when one has GRS, it’s just begining.”  I can understand how that is the case for some, but generally disagree with that statement.  Gender reassignment surgery should be the culmination of the transitioning process; it certainly was for me.  It seems that many who have GRS now days are very fast track in their approach and have really lived as their target sex for a time that is more easily measured in months, rather than years.  I don’t believe one can transition from male-to-female in a year or two, integrate into one’s target gender, and truthfully say they can appreciate the experience for what it is. 

But more troubling are the post ops that never leave the GLBT community.  Their transition is nothing about going from  their natal to their target sex.  It’s about the inability to adapt and fully integrate into the mainstream while, instead, relying on a community and lifestyle as a perpetual crutch.  Those are the people who are really stuck in transition…the career transsexuals.  Those are the ones who are captured by their gender issue and are either unable or unwilling to make the jump from their natal gender to the target.  One either can or they can’t.

If they can; they have.

If they can’t; they never will.

 

Sign THE PETITION…

Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival

One of the enjoyable things about having a blog is the ability to see where some of the people who read it come from.  WordPress  calls it Referrers…it lists web pages which linked back to one’s blog.  Enough Non-Sense  sees all kind of off-the-wall web sites that for one reason or another feel a need to link here.  So, when I noticed traffic from a site starting with http://michfest.com/ I followed the link and came to the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival Discussion Forum – Exactly whose “transitioning”… .  I found a couple of essays from Enough Non-Sense to be the focus of a commenter named Gynophile.  You can follow the link and read if you like. 

Neither myself nor Enough Non-Sense  has ever mentioned nor commented on the MWMF either here or on another blog.  The reason should be pretty obvious: it’s insignificant.  Nothing the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival  has done, is doing, or will ever be doing holds any interest to me at all, nor 99.99 percent of the rest of the planet.  I have many interests and there are a lot of things I would like to do one day, but spending any amount of time at any of their intensive workshops would not be one of them.  In fact, attending even an hour, much less a week, with a bunch of butt-ugly, dirty, lesbian-centric, feminist females doing anything is never likely to be on high on my “to do”  list. 

But…if one day I should decide to attend MWMF, they’ll never know it.  And be truthful, Gynophile, my dear little greasy, motorcycle-smelling dyke, isn’t that what really  bothers you?

 

Sign THE PETITION…

A Federal Gender Recognition Law

Surfing the net, one can find all kinds of advocacy for transgender related  issues.  Of course, the advocates for these transgender related  issues are gay, lesbian, and bisexual transgender  activists.  To the best of my knowledge, there is not one prominent out and proud trans activist whose advocacy is centered strictly on heterosexual classic/true transsexual issues…not one.  If anyone knows of a prominent or even obscure trans activist whose advocacy is centered on heterosexual classic/true transsexual issues please let me know.  There may be one, but after years on the net I have never come across him or her. 

It should not be surprising that the homosexual/bisexual trans activist advocate for issues under the banner of the GLBT.  And, that advocacy invariably revolves around just two issues, both of which are GLB related.  Those two issues are discrimination  and same-sex marriage.  Though discrimination is somewhat of a concern to some heterosexual classic/true transsexuals, for the most part the tens and tens of thousands of heterosexual, post operative, classic/true transsexuals have their surgery and disappear into the mainstream generally not affected.  Heterosexual, post operative, classic/true transsexuals, by definition, are not involved in same-sex relationships so for us, whether we support same-sex marriage or not, that issue is not  at the top of our list either…if it’s on it at all.