To preface this understand a lot of people are going to be more than mad at me for posting. I'm asking Erin to delete this blog if it makes too many furious or causes too much dissertation. BCTS is the one safe harbor in life to come and enjoy time away from the real world in the imagination zone of some of the best and some of the most original writers to ever put pen to paper.
Trump has been brain washed by Elon into erassing transgender from the human genome. It will never happen as transgender is not a wanabe life. Trans is designed in from conception by the One who gives life. Seeing the actual spark between sperm and egg as the spark of life is beyond words. An immortal soul joins a mortal body at that instant to live out the life as a mortal until it is time to return it to the One who created it.
Cain slew Able, Romans slew Jews and Christians. Turks slew Armenians. Hitler slew Jews and LGBT. The little known and understood LGBT was forgotten and misplaced in Hitler's cleansing of all inferior human trash. In all my research I didn't know about the LGBT cleansing except for the info from those most amazing ladies and gentlemen who blog and comment on BCTS. To all who post on BCTS, my heartfelt thanks and love for being you and accepting nothing less.
Down to the nail biting, teeth grinding, ranting rage part of my blog.
Trmp and Elon are using the force of government to erase any and all transgender
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUaZ_X9o4NU
Blaire was saying it, I was saying it. The Hell bestowed upon transgender was because LGB and some T pushed this in everyone’s face and demanded acceptance of their lifestyle and culture. Not only acceptance but treated as more special than heterosexual people and families. Blaire says the push back began in twenty sixteen. With a lot more age, a lot more personal contacts with the pioneers of transgender, the first push back began with the tabloids and sleeze news in the late fifties. Christine Jorgenson was demonized as GI Joe in a dress. Around the same time England was crucifying April Ashley. Both ladies paid a horrific personal price. Dislike and hatred was limited to the readers of tabloid news.
There is so much more why and how trans have become the hated downfall of humanity. It would fill a huge book which I hope to write some day.
“You want the truth? You can’t handle the truth!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzicDKSUCss
I love all of God’s special creations. "It wasn't a mistake. He doesn’t make mistakes."
Barbie Jean
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Not Voluntary
From personal experience, I would have been better off just being a crossdresser, not doing all the surgery stuff. Though I will have to admit that in my location and at the time, it was much better being a post op MTF. I would not be alive perhaps if I had not transitioned. Not going to explain that.
Gwen Brown
The hatred was always there.
This sounds like blaming the Jews for the Holocaust. If they hadn't been Jewishing so much in people's faces, they wouldn't have been persecuted. /s Right.
The hatred and persecution was always there. For a long time (certainly longer than I've been alive, and I'm 72), LGBT people tried to fly under the radar, but bigots sought them out, hounded them out wherever they were, arrested them, involuntarily committed them to mental wards, etc. Murdering us was de facto legal in most places, because it was considered to be justifiable homocide. "Conversion therapy" has been around as long as psychiatry has, even if they didn't call it that.
The Gay Rights movement (which originally included cross-dressers, drag queens, and transgender folks, until they were pushed out in the name of "respectability politics") was a reaction to decades of non-stop harassment. And once gay people were sufficiently "in their faces" for long enough, now being gay is more or less acceptable most places. "Gay panic" has become disallowed by law in most (?) places.
Now the libels that once were applied to gay people ("groomers", "child molesters", etc.) are being applied to trans people. What you call "pushing our agenda in people's faces" are our attempts to be able to live our modest lives without being arrested or beaten to death just for walking out of our homes (and our being murdered being justified as "gay panic.") Hiding has not worked, so now we're going public. So the hatred has become more public, too. And when we're murdered, it often actually makes the news, unlike in the past, when it was just "good riddance to bad rubbish."
Narcissist
If I try to explain what really happened, the "professionals " quickly brand me a narcissist. I'm 78 and it got me out of a very abusive marriage, and owing to a number of factors my income is enough to get by if I am careful. That means no Car and no frills. Public transit or my bicycle or walking is it. None of us live forever.
The Shrinks are very powerful and it is unwise to attack them.
Gwen Brown
Spot on
Children have heteronormativity shoved in their faces from the moment they are born, and the typical fairy story is an example. The 'arguments' and 'logic' used against trans people are the same as those previously used against gay folk, and Black people before that. Here's an example from desegregation days excuse a few offensive slurs):
"If you let their women into white women's toilets, they've all got syphilis and will give it to your wives and daughters. As for the bucks, they don't care where they put their ***** so your little boys will get attacked" [Note the patriarchal possessive 'your wives' etc]
We're not 'shoving it down people's throats', we are simply no longer willing to sit at the back of the bus. They're not complaining about us being too visible, they are complaining that we exist.
Not a Choice
Traded info via IRC early net and email was dial up. Girls had been institutionalized, subjected to mind blowing drugs, electric shock. One said a friend was lobotomized, turned her into a vegetable. The girl I was tracking, she was sharing her life experience with me. She was released after almost a year of drugs and electric shock. She convinced her doctors she no longer wanted to be a girl. Her last communication to me was her parents were the ones committed her and were waiting for her to return home. She was headed to San Francisco and disappear from life. May be wrong, I believe the smallest minority has paid the highest price in suffering, pain, death, in percentage of numbers of who we are. Our small numbers makes it easy for voyeurs, child molesters, any part of humanity's misplaced to claim they are trans. Why not, as all the sleeze tabloids, ratings chasers of liberal news, and those who are instant authorities of everything trans know everything there is to know about transgender. Even though it may be all wrong who's going to complain? Trans don't count.
Hugs Asche
Barb
Oklahoma born and raised cowgirl
pushed this in everyone’s face
Barbie, sweet girl that you are, you have opened a real can of worms here. It is going to be divisive. I am transgendered (and yes, I will happily defend the "ed" on the end of the word) and I support the idea of trans acceptance. I spent decades "in the egg" denying that I was trans, I did finally hatch somewhere in the late 90s or early 2000s. Long before that, I was struggling to deal with the trans nature that was poorly buried in my psyche. Things like feeling wrong while in a public restroom (men's room) or confined to wearing the clothes that were made to fit my body.
When I did begin actively dealing with my trans nature, admitting that my cross-dressing wasn't just some sort of "stress relief hobby" but was an expression of my inner-self, I had to face that.
Looking around, and studying what was and had been going on regarding trans. I found myself conflicted. I strongly support human rights for all minorities. Being trans puts us in minority. We are even a minority within a minority (LGBT).
I do refuse to attend "Pride" events. That includes parades and gatherings. Not because I don't support the movement, but because of the large number of extremists that garner all the attention.
That photo is an example of the folks I'm talking about. The people there do not represent me, nor can I even begin to believe that they represent the average gay person. One of my big goals, when out in public, is to blend in with the average person on the street; to not look unusual. Those folks aren't doing that. I know a number of people who are gay and in everyday life you would never know just looking at them; just as with my trans sisters.
While many of us have been testosterone poisoned and have tells that would out us to the astute observer, I don't know any who would purposely call attention to the fact that we are trans. By not attending Pride events I distance myself from what the cis world sees as freakish.
But I don't distance myself from the cause. I just want to be me without any drama. Isn't that what we all really want?
Hugs
Patricia
Happiness is being all dressed up and HAVING some place to go.
Semper in femineo gerunt
Ich bin ein femininer Mann
What's wrong with a pride parade?
Is there supposed to be something wrong with the parade in the picture? It doesn't seem any weirder than people in a Mardi Gras parade, or a Mummers' parade. Or some of the cheeseheads at a football game. What's "in your face" about that?
Of course, my standards may be skewed. I lived for a number of years in NYC, and worked there for longer. I fondly remember the fellow saxophonist who would show up in the subway on a skateboard with one of those "martian" headbands (the ones with the silver balls on springs) and announce that he was from alpha centauri and then play his horn -- loudly! It's what makes life interesting.
But I'm not into being quite so flashy. I'm more with Hannah Gadsby,:
And I'm not wild about all the corporate sponsorships -- a pride parade should be about us, not Verizon or Merryll Lynch.
Blair White? Seriously?!!
The woman has tried to position herself as a cheerleader for the Right
in hopes that they'll pat her head and call her "one of the good ones..."
But when she's no longer useful to them she'll learn what Kaitlyn Jenner did;
that at the end of the day, as far as they're concerned, there are no good ones...
So we're back to blaming the victims, are we?
And some non-existent demand for "special rights"? Sigh...
Also, I seriously doubt that Trump was brainwashed by Elon Musk
into his draconian stance on Trans people. He may not know much
but he knows his base, and he'll use an issue he probably doesn't actually
care much about one way or the other (much like George Wallace in the 1960s
when he transformed himself into a performative racist overnight...)
to cement his popularity with the bigots he's fleecing
Eighty-six, Forty-seven... HIKE!
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Taco
Apparently "Taco" has got a new meaning in financial circles (referring to US tariffs etc):
Trump Always Chickens Out
Which basically would reduce the genders to one.
Old story
On the verge of his first inauguration, Trump persuaded teen pop singer Jackie Evancho to sing the National Anthem. He promised Jackie and her transgender sister Juliet he would back transgender rights.
The day of the inauguration, Juliet was in Philadelphia undergoing MtF GRS. Jackie rightfully assured her understandably skeptical fans that she was not endorsing Trump but instead singing for the Country.
The day after the inauguration, every link to transgender support, along with LGBTQ+ links in general, were scrubbed from the White House website. The betrayal began well before his first election, as he campaigned as someone who would wholly support trans rights.
He swiftly duplicated his betrayal by proclaiming through Executive ORDER on Day one of his present administration, that there are only two genders. This was received with near glee by at least one of my relatives. HHS, through RFK Jr., has suggested that Transgender Health Records be compiled into a government database.
Love, Andrea Lena
Only two genders
I assume federal support will be withheld from any secondary school or university which teaches German, since German recognizes three genders: masculine, feminine, and neuter. I am under the impression that this is true of many other languages, as well.
Indeed
Also, in Norwegian for example, except for archaic words like 'marka', there are only two genders, but they are 'neuter' and 'common'
Spurious Argument
It is not us who have brought on the current situation w.r.t. transsexualism. I have been to many places where there have been individuals stretching the boundaries. A trip to Mykonos forty years ago was an eye-opener regarding flamboyant gays. Anyone who has been to Thailand will have seen "girls" openly plying their business. I could go on. There are countless examples. Sydney has an annual Pride Parade with thousands of participants which is also attended by many thousands of spectators.. the police take part. It is filmed on national TV and there is no animosity.
Our problems do not arise because of them. They are promulgated by Nazi fringe groups who have managed to inveigle their way into positions of power in various legislatures.
Also we get no support from the LBG community. They have got theirs and are more than willing to throw us under the bus. If they would support us the anti-trans legislation would never get passed. On our own we are probably 1% or less of the population. LBG probably make up more than 5%, enough to swing elections. That would stop most of the hate extremism.
We are not the perpetrators, we are the victims. It shows how ludicrous the whole situation has become, when drag queens, who are mostly entertainers, are attacked for educating children in public libraries and when TERFs deny our rights on the non-existent basis of "bathroom harassment" .
No section of society is as pure as the driven snow but it is ludicrous to promote this kind of total rubbish on a site like this.
divide and conquer
There's the idea that if they (the Respectable Gays) disassociate themselves from us they will be safe. But once the haters outlaw us trans folks, they'll go after the rest of the LGBT spectrum, and pretty much anyone else who isn't them. In fact, they're already doing it -- stuff like "don't say gay," or claiming that someone who shouts homophobic slurs at a gay man and them shoots them isn't committing a hate crime.
Trans people are a wedge issue -- they used transphobic slurs during the repeal campaign for the Houston equal rights law, and because the Gay establishment (lookin' at you, HRC) didn't respond, any protection the rest of the LGBT spectrum had is now gone.
Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.
throw us under the bus
Hugs
Patricia
Happiness is being all dressed up and HAVING some place to go.
Semper in femineo gerunt
Ich bin ein femininer Mann