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 06:57 pm (UTC)I'm not sure I can stomach reading the whole article.
Why do people care so much about Boys in Dresses, too??? Women can wear suits and ties, pretty comfortably. But put a man in a dress? Everyone goes berzerk!
We recently went to a club in the midwest. A gay club. People were stopping by all evening, trying to "figure out" my husband. Even a security guard made a comment about him. All because Scott had his hair in pigtails.
When will people stop criticizing and start LOVING???
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Date: 2009-06-04 07:23 pm (UTC)Buh?
Sigh. (I think my reading the "Asterix" comic books must've acculturated me to men in pigtails: one of the two leads is overweight and has red hair in pigtails and yet can beat down anyone who dares go toe-to-toe with him. Then again, they did things differently in 50 B.C....)
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Date: 2009-06-04 07:47 pm (UTC)