Trans News/ Issues

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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.

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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.

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Transgender Miss Universe Canada Finalist Jenna Talackova Disqualified From Competition

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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.

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I didn't see that quote in the article, but it does not surprise me in the least, either. That seems extremely typical of people like that. They discriminated against Miss Talackova and then lied like hell about the fact that they discriminated against her.

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I took the quote from the Toronto Star article, and didn't realise it wasn't in the Huffpost one. But yes, that is what's angering about many organisation's approaches to trans issues in Canada. It's basically a form of liberal/passive discrimination that is still very harmful and affecting how Canadian society sees trans people. "You're a real woman...but according to the contest you aren't a real woman."

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/a...m-pageant?bn=1

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this is a follow up to a story that ran earlier this year but couldnt find it in this thread.


http://www.examiner.com/lgbt-relatio...-german-courts

A German court has decided an 11-year-old transgender German girl should be institutionalized rather than live her life as a girl. Having been born a boy, Alexis Kaminsky, has always felt she was a girl.

When Alexis' parents decided to get divorced, the German court learned of Alexis’ circumstances. Throughout the process, the child’s mother tried to get her help, mental health treatment, to help her cope with thoughts and feelings about everything taking place. Somewhere along the way, the courts decided Alexis is better off in the country’s mental institutional system, where she may be‘re-programmed’ if you will, and have her views of her gender ‘corrected’.

Activists in the transgender community will hold protests in reaction to the decision to have Alexis Kaminsky institutionalized on Monday, March 26th, 2012. They protest:

‘Stop Alex forced into institutionalization at once’: “Institutions like the youth office and the Charité use force on humans through enforcement and psychological pressure! Each gender and each gender identity is a right, not a disease.”


The transgender community posits that gender identity is something that is developed at the individual level, not something that the community or state can dictate. Gender is a societal construct; sex is a biological one. How should these concepts be used, if at all, as factors in deciding what would most benefit Alexis?



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