i *definitely* do.

Self-smackdown administered. Sorry about that.

Christian Siriano’s “hot tranny mess” didn’t strike me as too offensive because in that context I took “tranny” to be short for “transvestite” rather than “transgendered”, making the whole catchphrase translate

“hot tranny mess” = “poorly performed drag”

where the critique is not on the impulse/desire/need to transition, or even to drag, but on the effectiveness of the performance. Now, if you use that to insult a real transgendered person, that’s really insulting and offensive (like calling Ann Coulter a man), but if you’re using it to insult a dress worn by a gorgeous cisgendered teenager, where the whole point of the show is competition on visual performance, I can’t see how it’s offensive.

Of course, the “family values” crowd could not possibly navigate this, and it is offensive as used above. Genuine transition is not mere drag, and it’s not fair to subject it to that kind of flippant insult. (I’m not that much of a Butlerian.)

If the above reads like a cisgendered girl’s attempt to be appropriate lingo that I’m not really welcome to use, please, smack me down on this.

I’m glad people are starting to notice this one.

First of all there are a bunch of different folks under that “Transgender Umbrella” Half of them are heterosexual and their transprefixed word is transvestite. Others are hetterosexual post-SRS folks.

I sometimes thing gender freedom has more to do with feminism and the liberation of gender from patriarchal imposed roles than it does with L or G.

Some of it is just freedom to be different. I kind of think we might be better off supporting Gender Pac than say HRC (Human Rights Campaign)

at what point did transgender become this evil thing?

when we started invading women’s public restrooms and locker rooms as a result of activist judges who allow us perpetrators of rape and pedophilia to accost the poor defenseless females.

funny thing, not one example has actually happened, but that doesn’t stop the fear mongering.

As trans activists and bisexual advocates have been pointing out for years, plastering “LGBT” all over documents or names of things doesn’t guarantee at all that anyone is actually being inclusive of trans and bi people and issues.

Dear Philadelphia Gay News: Just quit doing this, ok? Because throwing “GLBT” / “LGBT” around 20 times in an article just makes you look silly and pathetic. Your commitment to the trans community is poor at best, and bisexual people hardly exist in your little world. You are a weekly paper oriented to white midde-class gay men, with barely enough coverage of women’s issues to justify the “L” in “GL”.

As an aside, I’m getting annoyed with you, Queerunity, over your comments that are basically shilling your blog. Do you ever have anything substantial to say? Because I’ve never seen anything substantial. (Holly, great correction there!)

I had to laugh when I saw this.

That must be one hell of a short endorsement list. How many “LGBT” friendly conservative republicans are there in congress, or for that matter, in state legislatures?

It is hard to please everyone in the LGBT community at all times, especially when we pretend it’s one huge community, but I think most organizations are making a concerted effort at lip service.
http://www.queersunited.blogspot.com

Fixed that for ya!