And once again someone with their head-up-their-ass is going viral. Michelle Smith Glass posted an ignorant tirade about Caitlyn Jenner. The examples of courage cited by Ms Glass are, in and of themselves, reasonable. But she still misses the point and insists that Ms Jenner is not a real woman. The top layer of media, the people we cannot avoid, laud Jenner for courageously putting on an evening gown and that's all Glass bothered to read.
Most of the true journalists and trans community (transfolk & their allies) see Jenner's courage in something else. She knew there would people like Glass, who could have just ignored her, but who will instead go out of their way to try to shred Jenner. Turn about is fair play. I feel the urge to shatter some Glass (and I couldn't resist).
You see, Ms Glass, Caitlyn Jenner's courage is her willingness to stand up to bullies like you and say, "ENOUGH!" Oh, you think you're not a bully? Well you are. You are a bully and a judgmental bitch. Your whole rant is about real women.
You can't be a real woman if you don't give birth. If someone is born with a vagina, ovaries and a uterus is she a woman? Or does she have to give birth first? What if the treatment for childhood leukemia left her sterile at age three? Will she never be real?
Real women are courageous when they are bald and scarred from cancer surgery. I've been lucky enough never to have cancer. Am I not a real woman? What about a complete hysterectomy before puberty? Would she not be a real woman? Or does she not count because she never gave birth and doesn't even have the parts?
Gender is in the head. It is not in the reproductive organs. If someone sewed a penis on me, I'd still be a woman. Insisting that someone have the physiology you demand, and from birth, is cis-privilege and is just as sexist as insisting you have to have penis to run a company or be on the Supreme Court. That's right, Ms Glass, you are sexist. Your genitals are not who you are.
Trans women are real women. We must stop telling transpeople that they don't exist. We must stop. Now! Transfolk are murdered everyday around the globe, because someone like you says it's okay. Every time you support the gender police, you support violence against transfolk. Every time you decide who is and who is not a real woman, you encourage another scared, lonely trans person to kill themselves. After all, if they aren't real, it doesn't matter if they are alive.
Transpeople are real! Transgender people are human beings with hearts & souls and should be treated as such. They deserve human rights: the right to go to the bathroom; the right to have a job; the right to the best housing they can afford (not just where you think "they" should live); the right to walk down the street without harassment or assault; the right to health care. Trans people deserve the right to live. They deserve dignity.
Transgender people are real! Open your eyes and see them!
These special people have been with us since the beginning of time! Who are we to deny what the Creator has given us? I am reminded of a male toddler I knew years ago who, instead of playing outside with his brothers, preferred his mother's hats, heels and handbags. This told me quite a bit at the time and, it should be obvious to all those gutless, mean people out there that this little boy's behavior was not the result of some so-called decadent choice.
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