Always With The Bathroom; Always With The Misrepresentations
January 12th, 2009 by Autumn Sandeen
Let me repeat myself:
I get angry reading about the same tactics over and over again against LGBT civil rights legislation – You just can’t sell me that this isn’t about hate when were seeing these same, hateful “Christian” mistruths and fear tactics used over and over again. When do we develop some good answers to his and his “Christian” peers’ lies and fear tactics?
The ad below, by Citizens for Good Public Policy, is a for a Gainesville, Florida referendum to repeal a civil rights ordinance:
I don’t look like that actor behaving like a predator shown in the ad when I go to use a public restroom; I don’t act like a predator when I go use a public restroom — I just go to the bathroom. So do other trans people. And hey, sexually predatory behavior in any public bathroom is unlawful everywhere in the U.S. — despite what the ad says and the ad implies, the behavior shown in the ad isn’t legal.
If there were documented cases of transpeople having acted like predators in public bathrooms, or documented cases of male predators dressing as women to molest women and children in public bathrooms that organizations like Citizens for Good Public Policy would be citing the cases.
As it is, my trans peers (and I personally) are portrayed as potential predators — facts to support the claims and implications appear not to be needed. Frankly, it sucks raw eggs.
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H/t: Queerty
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Posted in always the bathroom, transgender | 3 Comments »
January 12th, 2009 at 7:11 pm
It’s incredibly frustrating to see this yet again. And unfortunately, there’s not enough exposure of real trans people in the MSM to effectively counter this presentation of transpeople.
Until we address this on the same level as the bigots are, they’re going to be pulling out the same old scare tactics. Instead of pulling out the stats, we need to be blunt.
Yes, I’m going to be peeing in the bathroom that best fits my gender identity. Why? Because, quite frankly, I’d make more people uncomfortable by peeing in the bathroom assigned to my natal sex than I would peeing in the bathroom full of people who look like me, dress like me, and who generally identify similarly to me.
January 13th, 2009 at 8:43 am
The video is wrong on so many levels.
Don’t forget, the video also follows the usual; that 1)young and 2) white and 3) girls need to be protected. We must think of the little white girls.
March 6th, 2009 at 8:56 am
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