from the department of extremely not okay

[rm]

http://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)

Comments

[pandarus.livejournal.com]

Oh, God, I think I read that article - I remember being absolutely incapacitated by an article about a little boy whose parents went to some total fucktard for 'help' (although they'd been all getting along just fine, and been supportive of their child up to this point) and how everything pink was taken away, and all the Polly Pockets dolls he loved. Until he was reduced to using his crayons to draw fabulous princesses in pink dresses and so forth - and then they took the pink crayons away.

It was one of the most totally fucking HEARTBREAKING things I have ever read. This poor kid was trying so. damn. hard to be good for the grownups, and do what they told him. And it was clearly crushing him.

Jesus.

Still, I'm heartened to see that there are at least ten sponsors withdrawing their money from the whole damn radio station - if it hits their wallets, THEN they will hopefully take note, and perhaps, just perhaps, this odious trio will get kicked to the curb.

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

That's the article--I was almost in tears by the time it was finished, it was horrible. I hope that poor kid grows up to be the femmiest, baddest-assed transgender activist of all time and space just to spite them and that asshole of a "therapist," or better yet, that after that article came out the parents realized they were destroying their own child and gave him/her back the damned Polly Pockets and pink crayons. But how likely either of those two scenarios actually are, I don't know. :-(

"I'm heartened to see that there are at least ten sponsors withdrawing their money from the whole damn radio station - if it hits their wallets, THEN they will hopefully take note, and perhaps, just perhaps, this odious trio will get kicked to the curb."

This pleases me too. Apparently (some) corporate sponsors don't wish to be associated with advocating violence against children, crazy radicals that they are.