That's So Gay!: And what about trans-phobia...

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Hateful action seem to be on the rise in our land, unfortunately fuelled by the gestapo-christian rhetoric of the religious right. This carries through to even the young children, who for the nonce are merely imitating their elders.

What alarms me, as a transgendered woman, is the fact that we as a sub-group have even less respect -- and fewer rights -- than straights or gays. In fact, we are often assailed from both those fronts...

What it comes down to, however, is that we are no longer educating our children. We are allowing them to be taught by institutions rather than people, without a sense of morality or even of style, and so the humanity is slowly being drained from them, only to be replaced by generalization, archetyping, and cruel misconception.

And who suffers the most? Women. The second-class-citizens of our pseudo-macho society. And lumped in with genetic women are trans-women and gay males, who are perceived as being "no better than" women by the brutish males who "lead" our society.

Gay-bashing is only the tip of the iceberg. One begins to see the great mass of prejudice and insecurity-fuelled hate behind it when second-graders begin to unthinkingly spout its rhetoric.

Just remember: today's student is the leader of tomorrow...

Olivia Evans

-- posted by Olivia32