from the department of extremely not okay
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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 10:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-04 11:03 pm (UTC)Luna by Julie Peters
Parrotfish by Ellen Wittlinger
Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan
Eon: Dragoneye Reborn by Alison Gordon
Cycler by Lauren McLaughlin
Note that the last isn't a traditional trans story, but about a girl who turns into a boy during the time when she would normally be having her period and touches on some of the same issues of gender identity.
ETA: Note that it is still a topic that people are feeling their way around and the first two, at least, are still very much "issue" books. Boy Meets Boy is sort of an idealised m/m teen romance, where the trans character is among the supporting cast, and Eon is set in a fantasy world.
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Date: 2009-06-04 11:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-05 12:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-05 05:53 am (UTC)