From Kelli Busey over at Planetransgender’s Weblog, some historical analysis:
Problem. The entire LGBT community had united against them(hrc and frank).
Solution. Rewrite history. Offer that due to the lack of transgender efforts to lobby and the relative newness and lack of transgender efforts at educating the public, the passage of transgender rights was impossible. Frank exalted transgender people to come forth and educate.
Problem. The transgender people although downtrodden and dispirited by the recent events took to the call. We began a renewed effort to educate. We believed our best venue was in the HRC GALA Balls, held in many states through out the year. In Austin Texas at the first 2008 Ball we were invited to present our Educational Initiative. We did so. We presented 8 transgender people and their allies to a extremely welcoming and empathetic HRC membership. We were elated at such a reception and were very hopeful that future GALA’s would meet with similar success.
Solution. HRC was faced with a dilemma.
The entirety of the post, “HRC Brews up Instant TEA(Trans Acceptable Alternative)” is worth reading.
March 22, 2008 at 6:09 pm |
No doubt that we will in fact suffer the loss of not only rights of equality in the future, but those which were originally afforded to Transsexuals and the Intersex. Where we once had the right to legally transition and find some kind of life, we now are seeing it dissolve. As in the night of the long knives and the vilification of a minority to cause chaos and distress before a hungry public, the Brown Shirts of 30’s Germany started bashing the effeminates and transvestites. It was later when they had the public in a lather that they expanded to divide the German society by cannibalization, the eating of the Jews rights and ability to survive.
It is not an accident that the current relationships and behavior of the militant gay thugs and elitists are banding against the Transgender as the target of focus in its vilification of another minority. Same as in the strategy of Rohm and the Sturmabteilung; singling out a small group to hold before the public as a dangerous threat. The Transgender are being expressed in the media (gay infiltrated) as freaks and low life who are about to disrupt social order. We are seeing a reaction to current local legislation such as the Bill 23-07 whose grossly loose “gender identity” definition set forward by Montgomery County, MD. The bill was shoved through with out proper vetting and was terribly written. It would appear the Transphobia being generated by the bill is with intent and the fallout is further being exacerbated by a coalition who is being fed disinformation and fear scenarios.
In the months ahead we may find a total reversal of the ground established in Intersex and Transsexual care, medical definition, and lawful protection. The erosion is planned so as to effect careful basis for gay advancement and access to political control. Create chaos and a need for emergent solution, and then in the castigation and elimination of the supposed cause, carefully worded laws are enacted to build a basis for changing the social fabric. It is a starting point, which if ignored will open the door to a repeat of history. First the Transgender, then the ….. It is too much to face; not again!