Trans News/ Issues

[DapperButch]

Originally Posted by Nadeest

Yes, the grants are designed to help treat transwomen of color, who tend to face the harshest discrimination of all transpeople, seems like. The Obama administration has done a lot to help the GLBT community, I think. It often gets overlooked because he tends to do things quietly, seems to me. I kinda like that way of doing things. You can get a lot more things done that way, without someone objecting to them, for one reason. :P

I agree with you. I was disheartened to see the LGBT community be so down on him because he didn't move fast enough for them when it came to equal rights. But, he got us there (military).

[Nadeest]

We, as a community, need to think a bit more, and try to be fair with everyone that is helpingus improve our lives. I know that we want it right now, and it is quite understandable, but that isn't how it works. If you look at history, slow improvements in the way that a minority group is treated is generally how it happens.
It isn't that long ago that there were signs saying: "No Irish need apply." on many places. Now that particular bit of bigotry is no longer around.

[DapperButch]

http://www.washingtonblade.com/2011/...trans-meeting/

[EnderD_503]

Originally Posted by DapperButch

http://www.washingtonblade.com/2011/...trans-meeting/

I noticed that this apparently happened last spring, yet for some reason I've only been hearing about it here and others telling me about it this spring. So I'm a bit confused, lol.

Looking at some of the articles, it seems odd that there has been no follow up as far as what was achieved by the meeting. All it says is that they were focusing largely on ending job discrimination. But I think that even that agenda is ignoring the struggles of some of the most vulnerable of the trans population, namely trans people of colour, homeless trans people, other low-income trans people and trans sex workers. I guess I just don't like this "one step at a time" approach that always leaves the rights of the most marginalised to come last while the concerns of those with more social privilege typically come first, in the same way trans rights were forever thrown by the wayside by the LG community for decades in order to obtain LG rights. I really would hope that trans rights advocates would learn from that and lobby for everyone's rights, and recognising how desperately something needs to be done to keep some of the most marginalised trans people safe from violent assault and sexual assault.

So does anyone know anything further about what was on the table at this meeting? Nothing seems to have been said in its aftermath. It came as a "symbolic marker" and went without much talk of it, or so it seems.

[Nadeest]

I do know that HUD had/has a pilot program here in Houston to help homeless transgendered people. It is in effect right now, and is in it's third year of operation, though I don't know if it is going to be expanded or not, or if it has been.

[Soon]

Transgender Miss Universe Canada Finalist Jenna Talackova Disqualified From Competition

[EnderD_503]

Originally Posted by HowSoonIsNow

Transgender Miss Universe Canada Finalist Jenna Talackova Disqualified From Competition

This makes me so sick. I really don't understand why it matters that she was AMAB. It shouldn't matter. Just another reason why the current system of sex assignment at birth is damaging to trans and intersexed kids and the way the public views them. She is just as "naturally born female" as any other contestant as far as I'm concerned. I find it interesting that it seems its pretty much always female levels of competition (whether in sport or in other competitions like beauty pageants) that are so strictly policed by "sex criteria."

This comment made me sick, in particular:

Davila insisted there is no bad blood between Talackova and Miss Universe Canada, and that they wish her the best.

“She was excited about the competition. Just because she can’t compete doesn’t mean we stopped loving her.”

Yes, of course you "love" her...you've just refused to recognise her as a woman, claimed that she's not a "real girl" and publicly humiliated her...but yeah...you love her.