REPEAT AFTER ME
TRANSPHOBIC PEOPLE DO NOT DESERVE A POSITION OF INFLUENCE OR POWER IN THE LGBT COMMUNITY OR LGBT MEDIA
TRANSPHOBIC PEOPLE DO NOT DESERVE A POSITION OF INFLUENCE OR POWER IN THE LGBT COMMUNITY OR LGBT MEDIA
TRANSPHOBIC PEOPLE DO NOT DESERVE A POSITION OF INFLUENCE OR POWER IN THE LGBT COMMUNITY OR LGBT MEDIA
Tumblr, we need you! A rogue Arizona State representative, John Kavanagh, wants to pass a bill that would thow trans people in jail for using public restrooms. Anyone could be asked for I.D. to “prove” their gender, and if there’s a discrepancy they could face a fine or jailtime.
When asked why the bill targeted trans people, Kavanagh explained that it’s because he thinks “they’re weird.” Outrageous.
We can stop this bill by taking action at www.allout.org/arizona and spreading the word far and wide. Will you help?
That quote sounds like something out of an onion article oh my god I can’t believe people are this awful
You should help and spread the word too
here’s to all the quiet queers
here’s to all the quiet queers.
all the queers who eat micro-agressions and secretly cry themselves to sleep.
the queers who dress the way their cis mothers told them to.
the queers who think about killing cis fucks every half hour, but never say a word more radical than “sorry.”
the queers who sip tea at their friend’s house while considering suicide, since that’s just about all they can think about.
the queers who are living double lives.
the queers who put on makeup at 2 a.m. in a hand mirror, making sure to wipe it off before school the next morning.
the queers who go to work dead and come home to see the world.
the queers who fuck, and suck, and kiss with the same hands and lips they use to eat dinner with their well-meaning shitty-acting parents
the queers who are ugly to you, too fat for you, running from you with lips sewn shut
here’s to the quiet queers, since it’s about fucking time we stopped shaming them.
(Source: mascfemme)
[cw cissexism, homophobia] If you poke fun at Justin Bieber or 1D or any other heterosexual pop culture figure by insinuating that they are gay, you are perpetuating homophobia. If you tack on a piece about the guy actually being a girl/having a vagina, you’re contributing to trans*phobia.
I don’t care how many rainbow vomit gifs you’ve published, or how many gay/queer friends you have, or how much you may claim to love gay/queer people.
When you choose to degrade someone you dislike by insinuating that they are gay, you are directly identifying homosexuality as a degrading, pathetic trait.
When you choose to insinuate that a young male pop star (or what have you) ~actually has a vagina and is a girl~ because he’s not masculine (or whatever) enough to be worthy of a penis and manhood, you are perpetuating not only transphobia, but misogyny. By insisting that he must be a girl because he’s too feminine or weak or [fill in the blank], you’re saying that girls fit that definition, and that anyone who doesn’t fit that definition must be a boy. Oh but wait, you can’t be a man unless you have a penis, and if you’re a woman, you have a vagina.
Well, well, well.
Don’t claim to be an ally if you choose to use our identities to tear others down, because by doing so, you’re tearing us down along with them.
listen up, grey delisle
Unlike some *ahem* other parts of the Queer Nation the Bisexual Community doesn't ditch people when convenient . . .
Then President of BiNet USA Wendy Curry said it best when the Bisexual Community refused to go along with too many in the the mainstream Gay/Lesbian establishment and ditch Trans*/GenderQueer people to try and get Equal Rights for just Cisgender Heteronormative/Homonormative people back in 2007 —
The trans community is part of the bi “net.” Unlike other national groups, we will not discard “inconvenient” parts of our community in order to win a political victory. Likewise, we would never consider tossing out the polyamourous, the monogamous, the pagan, or the christians; our diversity makes us strong …
The people who wish to “shave off” gender identity and the same people who, when necessary, will remove bisexuals from marriage, military, or any other civil rights actions. We’re too complicated. We distract from the “core” issue …
Sure, I’d love to live in a country where I couldn’t be fired for being out. But not if I had to look a transgender friend in the eye and tell them they weren’t convenient.. that it’s not their time.
It’s not about “those people” making things difficult (unless by those people, you mean the ones willing to ditch gender identity and divide the BLTG community). This is an attack on the bi community directly. Whether it’s about your gender identity, (one of) your partner’s, or your future partner - it all comes down to the right to be employed should not be given based on any one’s gender.
A wise person once said “United we stand, divided we fall”. There was no mention of when it’s “convenient.”
okay last thing on bisexuality for now i promise
the last things I will say in this particular debate.
From A.J. Walkley’s really awesome article:
Then there is the thought that the binary view of bisexuality can be seen as phobic of anyone who identifies as genderqueer, or somewhere along the gender and sexuality spectrum, not identifying as male or female, man or woman. But, as I mentioned before, the true definition of “bisexual” is being attracted to those who are the same as me and those who are different from me, encompassing all genders and identities. The often-repeated argument that “bi means two” ignores a simple fact: “Same” and “different” are, indeed, two groups.I would like to quote the whole article because it’s really good and also quotes Julia Serano [Ed Note a really well know Trans* Bisexual Activist btw] again which is cool but this part seemed the most relevant to the discussion from a few days ago. I don’t agree with the point that pansexuality only comes with a rejection of bisexuality, because they’re different things and different orientations, but mostly yes this is how I feel.
From the Bisexual Manifesto (written in 1990),
Bisexuality is a whole, fluid identity. Do not assume that bisexuality is binary or duogamous in nature: that we have “two” sides or that we must be involved simultaneously with both genders to be fulfilled human beings. In fact, don’t assume that there are only two genders.and now I’m done.
Well said *applause*
Transgender students get protection in Toronto schools while MP introduces anti-trans ‘bathroom bill’
(Source: transqueery)
(Source: cristobalite)
I’m Sick To My Stomach
because another black trans* woman is dead three blocks from where Paige Clay was found murdered in April and major Chicago news outlets won’t even give her the basic respect of using her chosen name.
Because our young black girls are dying at an alarming rate and even the queer community doesn’t want to talk about it
Because my own people (queer people and black people) are throwing these women into the streets and their blood is running there now
Because my black and brown trans* sisters are being murdered in the streets and the cis white gay rights movement is worried about how soon we can get married (which is important) but ignores the need for trans* folks to have housing options when they’re kicked out of their homes, which is far too often
Because gay men are still tossing around the t-slur that these women probably heard as they died
And it’s disgusting. Because nobody cares. The queer community will not speak of these women, and neither will the black community. I used to think it would take a rash of murders to wake people up, but I don’t know anymore. Because that rash is here. Tiffany Gooden was not the first. And I’m so afraid she won’t be the last. It kills me to think that my sisters are dying like this. Brown and queer and beautiful and with nobody to empower them. It absolutely kills me.
(Source: writingrhythmandretail)
Please reblog this, it is very important.
If you don’t remember Sophie M Herold, she is a German girl, who is extremely homophobic and transphobic. She has found out LGBTQ persons names, addresses, personal info etc. And set up her own database.
Her intentions with this are harmful.
She is sending out this information, your information, your best friends information, someone you love and care about. She’s sending it to hate groups, malicious people, people with bad intentions.And if you think I’m blowing this out of proportion, people have been kicked out of homes, disowned by families and even MURDERED. Yes, murdered. Innocent people who have done nothing but love.
She has had numerous blogs and each have been removed. Tumblr staff are aware of her, and as far as I’m aware she currently doesn’t have a blog, but this does not mean she isn’t still on peoples tumblrs, asking via anon where you live, what your name is.
An email I received today. She’s sending out information of same sex couples with children so the children can be kidnapped. She entitled it “Time to strike back”. If that doesn’t suggest harmful intentions I don’t know what does.
Please be extremely careful what you post on tumblr, on twitter, facebook, anywhere. Do NOT give out your full name or your address, or even the town in which you live. Look out for one another, and don’t answer any suspicious anons. Especially if they use your name in quotation marks.
Sophie M Herold is still out there, she always will be, so please spead this message and warn people. She’s attacking in silence. We don’t need more people dying because of her actions.Thank you.
Update: 11 year old trans girl lost appeal
The above article is an update. Her mother went to appeal to keep her out of the psychiatric ward and lost. She will be institutionalized because of her expression of her gender. She will be held until she conforms to male gender and then released to foster care, not her mother who was supporting her.
Please, if you haven’t signed the petition, sign it, reblog it, ask your friends to sign it. We’ve managed to get 40K signatures for a pageant model, we’ve only gotten 11K for a little girl about to have her life ruined. Lets get on the ball and spread the word.
I literally just repeated the f-word until I ran out of breath.
Let me catch my breath. I may go on a cursing spree again as soon as I get it back.
Seriously people…
WHY THE FUCK AREN’T PEOPLE REBLOGGING THIS??
To think, people still ask why I seem so disgusted by humanity.
IMPORTANT PLEASE READ!!
If studying-lgbtq-people inboxes you asking to take part in questions about LGBTQ people “to help her understand” DO NOT DO IT. It is Sophie M Herold, the girl from Germany who attacks LGBTQ people and outs them to others. She is transphobic, homophobic and one of the sickest people I know. And now she’s back with a cunning new plan to get your NAME, ADDRESS, BIRTH DATE, AND PHOTO.
This girl is dangerous, and for some reason is allowed to keep making new tumblr accounts. We’ve raised awareness before and it helped, so lets do it again before she puts another persons life in danger. She collects your information and gives it out to others, she has sent letters to peoples parents outing them, other people have gotten hurt because of her. Yes, hurt.
Even if we can’t stop her again, get this message out and stop others giving her information etc.
And Sophie, you should know by now not to fuck with me again, wrong move, buddy.
SIGNAL BOOST.
Y’all know I don’t normally signal boost, but this is so important. This girl is literally putting peoples’ lives in danger.
unclear if she’s in Germany or Virginia. she browses tumblr for LGBTQ people’s (especially lesbians’ and trans people’s) personal info in order to out as many people to their families, peers, employers, etc. as possible. if anyone contacts you about participating in a survey about LGBTQ people, ESPECIALLY if they ask for personal info, exercise caution. google any “real” name they provide and/or the username under which they contacted you; report suspicious tumblr accounts to support@tumblr.com. if they say it’s research being conducted by/for a student, academic body, organization, or business, they need to supply details about the survey research. don’t do any survey whose conductor, purpose, process, OR confidentiality is unclear or questionable, and don’t do any survey by Sophie M. Herold or Sophie von Bayron. the about section at now-defunct studying-lgbtq-people is clearly homophobic and transphobic:
Hello!
My name is Sophie Miriam Herold. In the past, I have contacted LGBTQ people around the world and pointed out to them how wrong their behaviour (being LGBTQ) is. Then, I started collecting names, addresses, photos and other personal information about them and sold them to anti-LGBTQ-organisations.
Now, it is time to take a more direct approach and find out what is really going on inside LGBTQ individuals.
That’s why I am asking LGBTQ people around the world to participate in my series of tests.
I want to experiment with gay people to find out how they react to
-cold, heat
-physical pressure
-different levels of psychological stress
-different chemical substances.
I just want to find out if LGBTQ people react like normal people.
Everyone who is LGBTQ can participate, no matter if you are British, German, Canadian etc., no matter if you are White, African-American, Asian etc., no matter if you are 18 or 28 years old – you just have to be lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer.
Depending on the amount of people who want to participate, the studies will start in fall 2012 or early 2013.
During the first phase of this test you will receive a questionary with questions regarding your past. In the second phase, you will participate in different role playing games (via skype) to find out how you react in everyday life situations. These skype sessions will be recorded. In the third phase, you will be invited to a laboratory close to your hometown to undergo the chemical and physical testing.
This study will be absolutely free for LGBTQ people.
If you are interested or know a LGBTQ person who wants to participate, please email me your
-full name
-full address
-birth date and age
-latest photo of yourself
-and describe yourself in a few words and why you want to participate in the testing.
Please send this message to:
sophiemherold@aol.de
Thank you very much for your cooperation.
My name is Sophie Miriam Herold, and I mean you no harm. I am just being curious.
It looks like her tumblr has been removed. Good.
Cis women who pull this “bathroom panic” bullshit need to start being held accountable by other cis women.
Obviously the police officer who questioned and ticketed Paula Witherspoon represents a real structural problem. The idea that an agent of the state got to decide a woman’s gender for her and call her “disorderly” for abiding by her actual gender is not only ludicrous, but also structural violence.
But the cis lady who looked at another woman “looked like a man” on the basis of whatever transphobic bullshit criteria is the one who called that officer and started the police interaction. That is FAR from a neutral act in a world where trans* interactions with police so often turn discriminatory and even violent. And it is an overtly discriminatory act that she decided she got to be the Arbitrator of Womanhood and literally police who was and was not considered female. This, too, is cissupremacy. And it, too, is systemic and far from isolated.
Transphobia and cissupremacy are far from the sole domain of men. Cis women, we, too, are a part of it. We have an incredible ability to do harm to our trans sisters. It is our responsibility to keep each other from doing so.
Please check your own privileges at the door: Sometimes we don’t have to look too far to find the people who persecute members of the LGBTQ+ Community(s). Be honest. How many of these have you used? And how many of these have been used against you?
