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[kathygnome]

I really truly feel like I'm in that Dilbert cartoon screaming Begone Demons of Stupidity.

Anti-gay transpeople drive me just up a fucking wall. Oh ickypoo, we don't want to be associated with THOSE people. Ewwwwww.....

UGH

Meanwhile every significant piece of legal action I can think of that's put trans rights into caselaw has been funded by one of the primarily GLB organizations.

And yet I stil hear the same "oh they don't do anything for us."

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[invisible-gurl.livejournal.com]

One of the reasons I've kind of quietly left GP was after a big argument on that very same subject.

[dashingdeviant.livejournal.com]

This wasn't the reason I almost left (that was my own personal issues making we want to totally withdraw from all sources of support rather than talk about them), but it does get really frustrating.

There's also a lot of transphobia there (which I'm sure both of you already know) in the "don't be visibly gendervariant" sense. Luckily I'm so sweet and nice that I seem to be putting a positive face on people on don't fit into binary gender presentation standards.

I can't think of any piece of legal action for trans rights that wasn't/isn't funded by a primarily LGBT organization, either. I think that in the past, the only thing they could be seen to be guilty of was not pushing harder for transgender and transsexual people - settling for stuff with just sexual orientation, which not only fails to protect TS people, but also your everyday butch (or just a woman who doesn't like to wear makeup - I have a friend who's only gotten away with not wearing makeup at her job (in Baton Rouge) because she's allergic to most of it).

[kathygnome.livejournal.com]

Is that the same GLAD that got a formal court recognition of the deductability of trans-related surgeries as medically necessary?

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, too late for me.

And the same ones who told me they not only couldn't tell me what would happen should anyone challenge my marriage in the unlikely event of T's sudden demise, in addition to telling me that I had better just keep having mixed documentation and not call attention to myself, regarding the whole being-married-prior-to-transition thing.
I haven't dared to try and find any kind of part-time work, with a D.L. that reads one thing and a S.S. card that says another.