from the department of extremely not okay
Jun. 4th, 2009 11:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rmhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-rowe/krxq-sacramento-radio-hos_b_210637.html
Because seriously? If you think this is just about children who are trans? It's not. If you think it's just about children who are lesbian, gay or bisexual? It's not.
It's about any child, anywhere, that isn't conforming to the most traditional of gender roles. It's about kids who like to play dress-up and kids that like to write stories and kids that want to try on identities instead of just growing up into exactly who they think they should be to make everyone else happy.
It's about your little heterosexual, cis-gendered, pink-wearing girl who wants to grow up to be a pilot and your son, who is going to be a dancer, who would happily date every girl in ballet class if he could.
It is about our arts and our sciences.
And it is, of course, as ever, about women and how we culturally despise them. Because how much of this diatribe is reserved for FtM kids? Almost none. It's all about boys and dresses, or, at least, so these biggoted child-abuse advocates think.
Trans issues are the issues that seem to get shafted the most often in the battle for LGBTQ rights. They're so marginal people say. They affect so few people.
Nope. Wrong.
They're about everyone. About what they do. About what they like. And about what kids want to be when they grow up.
This shit is severely unacceptable and deeply dangerous.
(ETA: Read comments for ways to contact station, advertisers, etc.)
(ETA2: More contact info and some progress: http://virginia-fell.livejournal.com/267487.html)
Because seriously? If you think this is just about children who are trans? It's not. If you think it's just about children who are lesbian, gay or bisexual? It's not.
It's about any child, anywhere, that isn't conforming to the most traditional of gender roles. It's about kids who like to play dress-up and kids that like to write stories and kids that want to try on identities instead of just growing up into exactly who they think they should be to make everyone else happy.
It's about your little heterosexual, cis-gendered, pink-wearing girl who wants to grow up to be a pilot and your son, who is going to be a dancer, who would happily date every girl in ballet class if he could.
It is about our arts and our sciences.
And it is, of course, as ever, about women and how we culturally despise them. Because how much of this diatribe is reserved for FtM kids? Almost none. It's all about boys and dresses, or, at least, so these biggoted child-abuse advocates think.
Trans issues are the issues that seem to get shafted the most often in the battle for LGBTQ rights. They're so marginal people say. They affect so few people.
Nope. Wrong.
They're about everyone. About what they do. About what they like. And about what kids want to be when they grow up.
This shit is severely unacceptable and deeply dangerous.
(ETA: Read comments for ways to contact station, advertisers, etc.)
(ETA2: More contact info and some progress: http://virginia-fell.livejournal.com/267487.html)
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Date: 2009-06-04 04:09 pm (UTC)As kids, me and my sister were the ones into karate, enough so that Liz competed internationally. My littlest brother has been dancing - ballet, jazz, and tap since he could walk. He recognizes the fact that it is not socially acceptable in mainstream, but when you get so much attention from the girls in ballet class, who cares?
My stepdad dislikes that my brother does ballet, but doesn't disallow him from going and doing what he clearly likes to do. It's slow work, but even backwaters in Ohio are changing.