Self-Organizing Man

The Lansing City Council is getting ready to decide if transgender should be a protected class in its non-discrimination clause.

Nevermind that Gary Glenn of the American Family Association - Michigan (a site I will not link to) has gotten his panties (crossdresser, maybe??) in a bunch about this necessary legislation. "Deny the ‘gay rights’ cross-dressing legislation," he screams.

Fine. I ge that his sense of self is so weak that anyone representing in real time the bogeypeople living in his head must be destroyed.

But can I just say that I flip all to shit when a lesbian, one Cindy Redman to be exact, of no less a reputable organization than the Lansing Association of Human Rights, says she doesn’t want to share a shower with a pee-pee-pee penis. I quote:

“If they have a penis, they’re going to be identified as a man”

In a further baffling move, Ms. Redman voted to remove two sentences from the proposed legislation that would restrict transgender folks from using various loos except if the all-important fucking driver’s license said they were F.

When I read about this type of behavior from gays and lesbians I fucking scream. "Oh we don’t have any power. blah-blah-fucking blah" Bullshit.

In what I construe as a caculatedly cold gesture, Ms. Redman pulls the all-too common power play used by those in positions of privilege.

1. I’m going to remind you of what a worthless reject I think you are ("I don’t want to shower with a pee-pee)
2. But I’m going to give you this crumb.

Urinary segregation is an all too dangerous reality for my brothers and sisters so I do not want to in any way deny the importance of this legislation. My people get kidney infections holding in their piss because they are too fucking terrified to participate in their goddess given right to take said piss in some public crapper.

But what really fucking torks me here is the disgusting misogyny displayed by a lesbian - and yes, I’m still whacked enough to believe lesbians and gays should know better. Note Ms. Redman’s lack of concern for oh, say, vaginas or micro-penises in the men’s shower. I mean, come on, can’t men be just as offended by my genitalia as she is by this mythic pee-pee she might see in the shower.

What also torks me is this false concern for women’s safety. If Ms. Redman was really fucking concerned for women’s safety she would have not said what she said. If she really cared about women there would have been no mention of penises.

Too often some women claim their concern for their safety when really they just want to feel comfortable. And I will say that based on my time in the women’s loo women can be just as violent and nasty as men when it comes to acting like a card-carrying member of the gender border patrol.

I am sick of my trans sisters being single out to carry the brunt of trans hatred. I am sick that so many transmen and ftms sit around with our thumbs stuck up our ass while our sisters are being hung out to dry. Counting the number of hairs that have sprouted on your chin since last week isn’t doing very much to advance our causes in the world.

Yes, I counted my hairs too, but I was always part of larger communities of fierce trans and intersexed women who often don’t have the option of acting like everything is groovy now that I can park my keister on the can of my preference. As transmen we often forget this important point. Transition doesn’t exempt us from human society.

As for the likes of the Ms. Redmans of the world, you need for a kind of sophomoric comfort does not override the more important need for the safety of an entire class of people.

Seeing a penis on a woman won’t kill you, Ms. Redman. But you might kill her with your mean-spirited helpfulness. You can do better. I know you can.

(See the Lansing City Pulse for the whole klew.)