Transmen skirt Marriage Laws-How Gay and Lesbian Supportive!

While I dont object to these two trans females marrying, I do take issue with the constant harping by the trans politic when referring to the GlBT about "community", "community", "community". But tell me, where is the community when a sect of that community is using their special privileges to skirt laws that gays and lesbians have no recourse against? If we actually were a community, not one couple in that community would marry in states that ALL aspects of that community cannot partake in!

There are a small handful of states that are allowing men and women to merely pay a fee and file the proper papers in order to change their sex. The trans politic is fast at work to create similar laws in other states. In the states that already have such laws on the books and states that will, gays and lesbians need to  utilize this loophole so we too can marry if we so choose. One partner legally changes her sex to Male, that way her and her female partner can legally marry. And unlike states that gays and lesbians can marry but their marriage is illegal in most other states, as a male and female married couple ALL states would be LEGALLY bound to recognize that marriage!

Granted if a number of gays and lesbians took advantage of this loophole, the loophole would be quickly closed. Something for feminists/radfems to think about if we want to rebuild some of the structures that have been torn from the foundation of female. It may be a small step back for gays and lesbians, but it would be a Nijinskian leap for women!

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Lesbian Couple Needs Our Help

A lesbian couple in a state that does NOT have any housing protections laws for gays and lesbians is being harassed into moving:

Any legal eagle readers have any advice on helping this distressed lesbian couple???

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Trans Trending-Who is Transitioning

http://www.youtube.com/user/FTMRiley94 (age 18)


http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRV3vtZDlQs6j6Zw1uXwTtw (age 15)


http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpeevQdpRPaIqJYAUd3sP2w (age 21)

http://www.youtube.com/user/LovePeaceSkylar (age 16)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-jGDUqS8Yw&feature=plcp (age 18)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rwUd8PtZck (age 17)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1a1k055EPY (age 20)

http://www.youtube.com/user/albinotaco1 (age 23)


http://www.youtube.com/user/JayceAlexander (age 19)

In few recent posts I have discussed violence against lesbians and the silence surrounding that violence by both popular media and queer media alike. The violence in question was gross hatred purely for being lesbian. The Shoah survivor/writer Elie Wiesel said of the Nazi Party that he understood their hatred of the Jews, what he didnt and still cannot comprehend is all those bystanders (who werent anti-semitic) who simple did nothing while their Jewish friends and neighbors were murdered/deported right in front of them.

I have never understood bystanding either. Plath's "peanut crunching crowd" lustily munching to the beat of the big "strip tease" I get, but here eyes are watching silently sans music as lesbians are being brutalized. What is worse, so many of those eyes occupy the so called "community" that is supposed to be behind us. A community that cannot always protect us but one that is suppose to be there to scream when we no longer have a voice, strike out when we're too hurt to fight and sooth us when we feel more alone in the world than we've ever felt! Silence has become the norm in the queer community where lesbians are concerned: lesbian issues, lesbian spaces and yes, even lesbian violence.

But just when you think things cant get worse in our current post-modernistic queered community, things have gotten much worse. Violence against lesbians is being promoted and supported in the queer community under the guise of Transition! And if you think for a moment that female transition isnt violent, think again!

This or something like this is what awaits the nine girls featured above, most of which (if not all) are lesbians. Between the bystanding, the promoting and the supporting of lesbian violence by the queer community alone, we lesbians are in some real fucking trouble! And the ONLY one who is going to save us, is us. Are we worth saving?

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Silence Equals Lesbian Violence

This nauseating horror was sent to me earlier from an "avid reader". (thank you btw)

The above was spray painted on the basement wall where three cowardly men sporting masks broke into a home where they bound and brutally assaulted the lesbian in resident. They beat and carved the word dyke across her stomach then left her for dead after dumping gasoline all over the house setting it a flame. By a miracle she got out and hopped to a neighbors for help.

I dont know about you, but had "avid reader" not sent me this article, I would be none the wiser to this hate filled calamity. Lesbian attacks, rapes and murders continue being down played by media if not out right ignored altogether! While hetero-patriarchy is the part of the problem, the misogyny behind it surely is the real culprit. The media has no trouble focusing on some famous gay male who "bravely" leaps from the closet or the latest "trans celeb", but lesbians being brutalized? Oh HELL no!

What I as a lesbian find more repugnant is the "queer" media whom are supposed to represent lesbians and instead primarily keep their focus centered on the almighty male. Whether gay males, male to females or female to males, male figures in there somewhere! So where does that leave lesbians? Lesbian issues? Violence against lesbians??? We are either silently ignored, kept silent or threatened with violence if not silent.

If we as lesbians are going to make any progress in society we first have to challenge the deep seated misogyny within out own queered community. Misogyny that ignores stories like the above or responds to being challenged with messages like this I received this morning:

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ps Please send your best lesbian vibes to this traumatize woman, she will need all the good spirits just to get through this lezbophobic attack and a lifetime to learn to live with it.

Transmale Health and HIV

This link gives a balanced account of what trans females can expect from taking testosterone, from how it can change their sexuality (lesbian to straight), increase or decrease their sex drive to suddenly wanting to have their vagina's penetrated by a penis or wanting to suck a penis. And given the latter, it contains some good info on how trans females can protect themselves against HIV and other STDs that having sex with men they run the risk of contracting.

I also think it gives some good visual representations of various trans females and what females considering transition can expect from dosing themselves with testosterone. Clearly even after years on testosterone, the feminine body remains firmly intact. See images below:

 

 

 

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Female Shame and Dysphoria Has No Age Limit

As females, from our very first moments outside our mother's womb we are swaddled with negative signifiers (pink) that signal to the world that we are less than human because we are not male. From there we are repeatedly assaulted with misogynistic messages aimed at reinforcing that very first message, we arent human, but objects! Objects that should at all times be available to whatever a male needs or wants or desires. In a nut shell, fuck toys with a pulse.

Lesbians are not exempt from these monstrous messages and unless there is a serious (lesbian) feminist intervention to disrupt these constant cerebral onslaughts, we can carry their patriarchal trespasses well into our lives. BUT when the misogynistic onslaught is interrupted and the strangulation of the Gender Straight Jacket loosened just a bit, women can begin for the first time to think and maybe for the first time since we were expelled from our mothers, draw breath.

This from a lesbian whose self hatred was interrupted here just the other day:

 
A life time of T to the ass has yet to block even one iota of misogyny but a drop of feminism to the brain can eradicate centuries of shame and dysphoria!

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