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Transgender Day Of Remembrance.
Nov. 20th, 2009 10:50 pmToday is the 11th Annual Transgender Day of Remembrance. "This day was created as a time to grieve trans and gender non-conforming people killed over the past year because of fear and hatred. It also serves as a time to raise awareness about violence against trans folks."
I, like Andrew Hickey (who is a much better writer than me, and who's careful thought-provoking post prompted this ill=thought-out rant) am a White Straight Male, living in a world where being a White Straight Male is considered normal, and anything else is worth less. Well, frankly, bollocks to that. Humanity is a glorious rainbow of variety, and the sooner we come to accept this the better. The people who murder other people based on how the gender they present are no better than those who murdered based on skin colour, religious beliefs or any of the other petty xenophobic reasons we've been using to murder each other since humanity fell out of the trees.
Is it really so hard to treat people with common decency?
I really don't have anything particularly constructive to say. I'm not involved in the Transgender movement, nor I suspect would I be particularly helpful. All I have to offer is undirected anger and despair at yet another example of humanity's inhumanity. Its a start I suppose.
Still they've got CERN up and running again. Hopefully when they actually start doing proper experiments they'll turn the world inside out and we won't have to worry anymore. That'll be nice.
I, like Andrew Hickey (who is a much better writer than me, and who's careful thought-provoking post prompted this ill=thought-out rant) am a White Straight Male, living in a world where being a White Straight Male is considered normal, and anything else is worth less. Well, frankly, bollocks to that. Humanity is a glorious rainbow of variety, and the sooner we come to accept this the better. The people who murder other people based on how the gender they present are no better than those who murdered based on skin colour, religious beliefs or any of the other petty xenophobic reasons we've been using to murder each other since humanity fell out of the trees.
Is it really so hard to treat people with common decency?
I really don't have anything particularly constructive to say. I'm not involved in the Transgender movement, nor I suspect would I be particularly helpful. All I have to offer is undirected anger and despair at yet another example of humanity's inhumanity. Its a start I suppose.
Still they've got CERN up and running again. Hopefully when they actually start doing proper experiments they'll turn the world inside out and we won't have to worry anymore. That'll be nice.
