In the
ancient Chinese military treatise, The Act of War, Sun Tzu states; “anyone who excels in defeating his enemies
triumphs before his enemy’s threat becomes real.”
In July of
2012 Massachusetts Transgender Equal
Rights Act became law;
this is the same proactively leading state that was also the first on May 17,
2004 to legalize gay marriage. Most
recently, the “Guidance for Massachusetts Public
Schools:
Is Creating a Safe and Supportive School Environment – Nondiscrimination on the
Basis of Gender Identity.” There’s no surprise, why now, the
conservative media is doing a Linda Blair head spin. Unfortunately,
considering the right wings ability to brainwash with Nazi style propaganda
scare tactics, does present a problem for the lives and safety of every
transperson in the country, especially in red states. With the most recent events allowing
trans-kids to use the appropriate bathrooms that best fit their presented
identity. This may seem like common
sense but that is something continually lacking in most corners of conservative
hate speeches and they’ve began to mobilize their efforts to bully…basically…transgender
people.
They started
simply last year with ads, attacking transgender people. Their ads are a common theme used
first to gather the bigots. A start to
the New Year brought an Oregon LGBT equality group to start a petition,
demanding fox end its transphobic news coverage. Who can forget comedian Robins
William’s comedic character, Miss Doubtfire, being used to
represent transgender people? Then we had to deal with sports casters on a sports channel spewing their hate. Now
conservative media and bloggers are in an up roar, that the state of Mass., Is
trying to curve bullying and provide understanding for transgender youth. They’ve already begun attacking CNN’s recent
and compassionate story of a Colorado school’s decision to bar a 1st grader from using the restroom. And what do they do when no one is listening
to their news? They get a few bigoted
churches to preach hate from pulpits.
By now most
that have been transgender for a few years and most lgbq people know, this is
what they do. Damn if anyone is going to
be happy, emotionally sane and free, is their motto it seems. But what are we going to do while they are
preparing to attack every state in the union and prevent lgbt issues from even
been discussed, are we just going to sit on the sidelines? Create new labels for ourselves and continue to be divided by
racial, sexual orientation and socio economic status, or continued apathy about
anyone rights other than our own? So
many efforts are being made for anti-bully legislation. Everyone in the media is crying ‘why is there
so much bullying in the schools?’ The
media, especially conservative talkers are to blame; they are the bullies,
beating our kids in school. They are the
bully, that slips the noose around our necks and deny so many the rights to
love whom they love. Conservative media
is the gun at the head of a teenager afraid to be who they are and the reason
another trans-woman of color lay in a gutter with her throat slashed and I’m
damn tired of what ‘they’ have to say about my one life given to me.
It just
amazes me that the majority of lgbt people pay taxes for other peoples kids to
go to school while they kill our young.
The countless stories of Republican conservative politician and
religious leaders in sex scandals and swinger clubs but dictate to us the
sanctity of marriage. One of the reasons
this country went to war against England was taxation without representation.
It’s time for conservative media to be conservative and stop infringing on our
rights.
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