Muammar Al Khadafi

One of the things I shake my head and laugh at is when I hear that loud and wrong element of radical lesbian feminists hurl that 'residual male privilege' charge in order to justify their obsession that started in the disco era and continues today with gleefully oppressing transwomen.

What residual male privilege? 

However, I could see where a bunch of people who are trying to dismiss and deflect attention away from the fact that they have pearl clutching white female privilege would hurl that charge and if necessary, cry white women's tears to do so in order to deflect attention away from the fact that they gleefully revel in their whiteness and their ability to oppress others. 

Time to school y'all once again. 

When we start transition, the second we swallow our first hormones or take that first depo shot, we are no longer considered part of the 'old boys club' by our male counterparts.. 

That message gets sent early when male bodied people who used to value your opinion or accepted it without question now ignore it or repeatedly interrupt your conversations because that opinion happens to be coming out of a female bodied person.  


And that is breathtakingly made clear to you if you're a transwoman of color

Residual male privilege?  Where?   Maybe that's true of the WWBT's who can't seem to let it go, but for the rest of us, we laugh at the cluelessness of your way off kilter assertion
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Liberal MP Dr.Hedy Fry and NDP MP Randall Peterson just introduced Bills C-276 and C-279 a few days ago in the Conservative majority dominated Parliament.  

Why did they do so?   Because it's clear that the Great White North and the trans people who live inside its borders need that human rights coverage.

A blatant case of anti-trans discrimination has blown up and become international news centered on the Trail's End Farmers Market in London, ON.

On September 10 Karen Clarke, the cis female owner and proprietor of True 2 You of London, a business that sells candles, oils, air fresheners and incense was called by the manager of the farmer's market and told she could not set up a booth in their 'family friendly' facility the next week if she planned on having a trans person running it. 

Clarke had worked a morning shift in the booth, then left it in the hands of her trans employee Dani Dominick in order to prepare for the next day's business.   She was shocked to receive the transphobic call at 8 PM that evening.

"He said it made everyone uncomfortable and it just wasn't right. This is a family place, a family market and this just isn't right. I just kept insisting what happened that was wrong and he said you walk up to the person and they're dressed like a woman and they've got big hands, a deep voice and tattoos and it's just not right. It's just not a family place he kept repeating that over and over again. And I kept trying to get from him what was wrong, what was so not right, what was it that people were complaining about and there was no details forthcoming that way. He called them 'those people' several times."  

Dani, the employee in question is according to Clarke one of her best employees and has worked without issue at the Children's Festival, Rib Fest, and Food Fest this past summer. In addition to working for Clarke, Dani also lives with her as part of a rent-for-work agreement.

Attorney Michelle Boyce is providing legal counseling to Clarke and a discrimination complaint has been filed with the Ontario Human Rights Commission.   Boyce says that if it rules in their favor, the fall out could be significant.

"We're in the process of filing human rights against Trails End Market, its blatant discrimination of what they've done. I've never seen a case so obvious."

There is a Change.org online petition that has sprung up in support of Clarke and the trans workers discriminated against that has garnered over 3700 signatures .

But let's hope that some of the fallout from this incident that Boyce talked about is a groundswell of positive public opinion that gets the Trans Rights Bill passed even in this Conservative dominated Parliament.

Teonna Brown faced the legal music earlier today in Baltimore County Circuit Court for the April hate attack of transwoman Chrissy Lee Polis in a Rosedale, MD McDonald's. 

Judge John Turnbull II sentenced her to 10 years in jail with five years of the sentence suspended, plus two years of probation when she gets out.  The 14 year old juvenile is in a facility and could be there until she is 21.

Polis did not appear in court today, but her victim impact statement was read during the proceedings.

In it, she said, "While being beaten, I felt like I was going to die that day. I was kicked in the chest, crotch and head. Chunks of my hair were pulled out. They were all over me, and I couldn't get them to stop."


Polis said she felt her identity was taken away."My private life has been exposed to the world. I lost my job. I can't go anywhere without the fear of getting hurt again. I want to go into a hole and hide. I do not forgive them for what they did to me," Polis said.
Yeah, it was that ugly and it's a miracle that Polis wasn't killed.

Justice was served.   But I also would have liked for Judge Turnbull to have added a requirement that Brown and the juvenile do community service with an organization that works with transpeople.  I would have also sentenced them to attend the Baltimore area TDOR to further drive home the point that unbridled hatred of trans people sometimes leads to their deaths.

Well, Brown and the 14 year old juvenile will have plenty of time to contemplate that question.

This is getting ridiculous now.   I write about a trans Latina who they are still trying to identify who was killed yesterday in Northwest DC, and now this morning I wake up to the news that another transwoman was shot in the neck in Southeast DC

According to WUSA-TV the unidentified transwoman drove herself to the 7th District police station located in the 2400 block of Alabama Ave around 2:00 AM ET. 

Washington MPD officers investigating the incident determined that it happened earlier in the 2300 block of Savannah St. and are searching for a man with a dark complexion known as 'Tyrone' who was wearing dark pants and a tan shirt at the time of the incident.

The transwoman was conscious and breathing when she arrived at the station and was transported to a local hospital where her condition is unknown at this time.

What the hell is going on Washington DC?  

Shoot, just as the State Department and human rights organizations are expressing concerns about how dangerous Honduras is for the transwomen who live there and needs to be investigated, maybe those organizations and the Department of Justice need to get busy investigating what the hell is happening in Washington DC.

TrnasGriot Note: The trans Latina report turned out to be engineer Gaurav Gopalan who was dressed en femme when killed in the Columbia Heights neighborhood.