undergroundpanther (1000+ posts) Fri Dec-17-10 05:20 PM
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While the repeal of DADT will help GBL people get one step closer
to being real citizens in this country with the rights of any hetero white christian male.....
Be aware it won't do crap for trans-people. We being the T added to GBL almost like an afterthought.. GBLT,.. If you are transgender ,DADT won't help you one bit in moving to getting equal rights, or human rights in this so tolerant of the bigoted in this nation .Because if you are transgenderered and in the military you get to stay in the closet.Better not cringe when you are called pronouns of the wrong gender, and don't try to change your birth name or sex designation,if you have transitioned never tell what your past was don't let it ever slip,and if your gender is expressed far ,far away from base for damn sure don't 'sneak hormones or get caught with traces of makeup on when you get called in...
Yeah I'm happy for them,but I am a tad bitter today,I spent two days on the phone fighting a bureaucratic web trying to get my testosterone patches refilled,I have been wearing patches every other day,and my emotions were becoming more labile.I won the fight (this time)and for another year I will feel saner..The stress of all the shit I face as a trans-man is killing me,My Trans women friends face this crap too and they get treated bad by others too...The bigots really make me pissed off(DMV christianazi story for instance)and I am so tired of them.The few gays that act like trans-people are the problem as to why they can't get rights infuriates me,how does it feel to be the scapegoat of a community of scapegoats scapegoated by the straight world? It sucks,times 2.
But I will fight for the rights of gays,but somehow among some of the GBL community we are still not REALLY included as part of this.We are still not getting treated a bit more like human beings..,even though the Stonewall riot was started because of a trans-woman's shoe heard round the world..It is so frustrating...Don't people realize if one kind of humanity is oppressed we ALL are?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x29873Well, this is the outrage of all outrages. DUmmy UGP, a male panther in the body of a grossly overweight, unattractive, tattooed, mutilated, mentally ill female, will never be able to be all that he/she/it can be. While the jug-eared muslim tries to convert the military into an outreach agency to the queer community, he is somehow overlooking freakazoids like UGP. Maybe she should check out NASA. This story does have one bright side. Apparently you and I are now buying testosterone patches for perverts.
