The Pot Speaks to the Kettle

I don’t read Monica Robert’s,  TransGriot , very often.  Ms. Roberts appears to be the epitome, if not a caricature of the angry black woman  and I don’t care for the Ebonics slant of her writing.  I don’t know if others are just too politically correct to challenge her racists and bigoted essays or not, but I think she’s been getting a free ride for way too long.  Her latest rant can be read HERE.  But, don’t stop there.  You can get your absolute fill of racism disquised as “African-American persective” HERE…HERE…and HERE and never leave the subject thread.  Her other essays, if not revolving around drag queens and drag balls, are often of the same flavor.  Below are just a few of the straight up racist comments you can find in the linked essays above:

The Intellectualization of the Gender Debate

It has often been said that statistics can prove anything, the insinuation being that one can manipulate data in such a way as to statistically prove any premise, no matter how obscure, no matter how absurd.  Though I disagree with that statement, based on a very firm understanding of statistical science, I do appreciate its implication; I’m sure many of you do.  However, though I don’t agree that statistics has the ability to prove any premise, no matter how obscure or absurd, I will be the first to admit that statistics are often inappropriately used to shore up postulations that otherwise have no merit.  For example, suppose someone in Texas is enjoying an afternoon cookout in their backyard with neighbors.  Running around in the yard with the children is a bunch of dogs, all of which are different colors.  And, for reasons unknown, one of those in attendance decides he wants to know how many of the dogs are black in color.  So, the person counts all of the dogs.  He finds there are a total of ten dogs, seven of which are black, and the rest are colors other than black.  So the man says: 

The Taliban of the GLB Movement

By Leigh Smith

Did the GLB movement make a huge mistake when it incorporated transgender into its alphabet soup acronym? 

There was a time, not so long ago, when the gays and lesbians were becoming well accepted among mainstream to the point where being gay or lesbian was not an issue for most people.  The fear and stigma that once pervaded mainstream American’s views on homosexuality were being relaxed everywhere as the gays came out of the closet and moved into mainstream.   Famous celebrities, entertainers, actors, and musicians started to publicly open up their lives by admitting they were gay or lesbian; the general public didn’t abandon them.  I think the reason for this, the far right religious conservatives aside, was because most reasoning adults knew, or sensed, that homosexuality was innate and not learned.  It was a condition of being human and many families had gay sons and daughters.  So, while they may not have desired their offspring be homosexual, most realized that there was nothing they could do.  Even the fear associated with the AIDS epidemic was not enough to completely turn all Americans against gays and lesbians. 

In Defense of “Cis” and “Trans”: History, Identity, and Context

Guest Post

Hello! My name is Ashley.  I’m a 25 year old cisgendered, transsexual woman living in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States.  I hold a Bachelors degree (with High Honors) in Philosophy and Anthropology from the University of California, Santa Cruz (‘06) and a Masters degree in Philosophy from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (‘08).  My primary research area is in Moral and Political Philosophy, with interests in practical reason, liberal theories of justice, and personal identity.  I have a huge crush on Immanuel Kant, Simone De Beauvoir and Friedrich Nietzsche. Currently, I’m pursuing a career in higher education admissions.  Eventually, I hope to establish a non-profit organization that will encourage and help trans people get into college. [1]

 

The purpose of this essay is to refute two claims: 

1.  That cissexual  is a made-up, fictional, and/or useless word, used to denigrate men and women who have not experienced transsexualism. 

2.  That if a person is a woman (or man) they do not need to use the prefix/adjective/modifier trans. 

Making the Jump: Those That Don’t

We’ve heard it over and over…a thousand times…said a hundred thousand different ways: 

I’m a woman.  I’ve always known I’m a woman.   I’ve been female for as long as I can remember.  I want to be accepted as a female. 

And then, invariably, a version of the above is followed by the question: 

Why won’t society accept me for what I am ? 

Always after the “Why won’t society accept me…”  part, the dumbfounded speaker, in one way or the other (generally accompanied by some word with phobia  as the suffix ), proceeds to blame society for not accepting them.  To these people, there is always a reason why someone else is to blame for their lack of being able to merge into society and have the acceptance they yearn for…they appear clueless as to the solution to their situation.  The truth might be that society is accepting the person for what they are.  It’s just that what the person is to society is not what they want to project…or in some cases, not what the person is capable  of projecting.

 To me, the answer is simple as to why they are not accepted; it is and has always been: 

Providing one is actually female in the first place, they have not made, or are incapable of making, the jump from being what they were (male), to what they say they are (female).  And, until that jump is made…they have not transitioned nor will they be accepted by the mainstream.

Travels

I’m back from the trek to California.  I think some of you know I have been out of touch for the past eight days or so while traveling with my guy out west.  It was a great trip, and super to get away.

We left Houston at 8:00 AM on Saturday for a brief layover and plane change in Phoenix before heading out to Reno, arriving there just after noon.  Forty five minutes and a rental car later and we were off.  The route took us over the Sierras north of Lake Tahoe on Interstate 80 and on down through Sacramento before taking Hwy 12 West through the gorgeous Napa/Sonoma wine country.  Our destination was a retirement community located between Sonoma and Santa Rosa.

The trip was two fold for the both of us: business and pleasure.