“Second, because of an old tradition from decades past: gay pride parades that wanted to be “respectable” forbade trans people from marching on Sunday, so trans folks started their own march-in-exile on the Friday before.”

Wow. I did not know that. That’s pretty screwed up.

Over here (Germany) we have a tendency for queer folks to become a lot more mainstream and focus heavily on the differences that still exist between the sort-of-civil union thing we have as opposed to fully equal gay marriage. But I’m not aware of trans people being explicitly excluded from any public action, ever. (There’s the odd old school women-only joint that will at least frown at trans women joining, but I think that tendency is waning, too.)

Thanks again for bringing the whole #trannyalertfail mess to my attention on Friday. I’m glad I was able to play a part in raising awareness of the site and its sickening and dehumanizing disregard for trans women’s safety.

I’ve since exposed the creator (or one of the creators) of the site. Despite doing so in a safe, respectful manner (although I found his name and photo, I didn’t post either publicly).

The loud, vocal defenders of the site (mostly Twitter user @MARYNUGGS) are now accusing me of threatening minors (huh?), and are generally pissed off that their privacy is potentially compromised. How’s that for a truckload of irony?

Unfortunately, this highlights a disturbing tendency for entitlement among certain more-privileged LGB’s to pick and choose any queer identity and feel they have rights to use it as they see fit. That the site creator was a white, gay cisgender man really saddens me, but it shows how genuine these people’s “love” and care for trans women is.

Ironically, http://www.tranny-alert.com‘s ridiculous disclaimer got one point right: Don’t mess with trans women, or we’ll kick your ass.

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Oh, and Iliza Shlesinger, when I wrote about that video a few weeks ago a friend of mine messaged her MySpace about it, and got an incredibly incoherent, defensive reply. I should forward that to you, Holly, it is full of “Wait, did you just say that?” moments (such as the assertion that prostitiutes are and always will be fair game for comedians). I think Shlesinger’s lack of talent will scuttle her career, or at most she’ll be a D-list satellite of the Howard Stern/Jay Mohr dude-iverse.

It’s sad that women are forced to being agents of sexism to find a voice in some areas of comedy, but there are other places she could choose to do her art. She’s consciously decided to be transphobic, sexist, and fatphobic, and is thus worthy of our criticism.

- A.

That’s 8.3%. To compare, the overall US homicide rate is 5.5 in 100,000, or 0.0055%.

One in fucking twelve. And you’re sitting there joking about how pathetic and scary and non-human they are — or even encouraging people to hunt them down?

I hope you’re fucking proud.