i’m off from work today, but i can’t seem to get motivated to leave the house. i’ve been surfing the web, and reading what others are writing.

helen g compiles a list of links.
pam posts an open thread.
and bil ‘come to my blog and teach me about the tran’ browning posts an hrc video.

now to be fair to bil, pam also posted the utube hrc video. but it’s under the fold, and it’s one among three. there’s one comment in bil’s thread that says it for me, by Alyssa:

You DO realize, that hrc has been actively working to make more dead transwomen.

This is beyond tasteless. They are celebrating their long career of assuring that trans women will find it harder to survive. They are reveling in it, and rubbing it in our faces.

And this is not at all unusual for gay and lesbians. Not at all.

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How long will it be before they rename it “Gay on Trans Hate trophy day?”

yeah, there’s many trans women who are not feeling the love from the hrc. i’m among them. even more so after learning that they’re celebrating this day with a “fun, laid-back evening”, and trying to muscle in on several local tdor events.

there was a time when i questioned the idea that the only day of the year that trans people gather as a community, was a day on which we remember those of us who are murdered because of who we are. i posted about trans awareness week, and liked the idea of a different kind of gathering for the trans community. i’ve come to know now, that tdor is is really the only day we, as trans people, own. and if others want to take it away, they’ll have to pry it out of my cold, dead hands.