gypsyrose1972

I�m sad to say that HCC seems to continue having issues with ensuring that transgender students are welcomed and that they have equal access to a supportive learning environment. I recently learned of a situation in which a HCC instructor named Donny Leveston, who prior to working at HCC was a truck driver and Drill Sargent, organized a classroom discussion in which transgender people were referred to as �oeweirdoes” and �oefreaks”. Leveston wound up his presentation by stating �oeI don�t care what those people do as long as they keep it away from me.” What seemed particularly cruel about this instructor-lead discussion was that the Leveston was aware that he had a transitioning student in the classroom.

Thirty-one years ago today, Judge Phyllis Frye - the first openly trans judge in Texas - was able to get the Houston crossdressing ordinance overturned.

Radical feminist stereotypes: Behold the incredulity!

Back in 1978, Anita Bryant - anti-queer bigot extraordinar- came to Houston to bolster anti-queer sentiment. She spoke at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Houston.

Tomorrow, Judge Phyllis Frye will be honored at the HCDP's 2011 Brunch Honoring LGBT Trailblazers at the same Hyatt Regency that once hosted our nation's anti-queer poster child when she visited Houston in 1978.

While Perry and his 3 ring circus of anti-queer hate is gearing up to congratulate each other for passing the buck to Yahweh Elohim in what he's calling "The Response", the GLBT community in Houston came together to remember those we have lost to hate and to dedicate a small garden as a lasting place of reflection. This effort was sparked to life as a reaction to a recent murder that took place in Houston. A young gay man named Aaron Scheerhoorn had been stabbed as was running from his attacker. Upon seeing a nightclub, he ran to the club's entrance seeking help. The doorman turned him away... whereupon Aaron's attacker pushed him down and in front of dozens of onlookers, commenced to stabbing Aaron over and over again... the onlookers did absolutely nothing to stop the attack and allowed the murderer to escape without hindrance.

So, this may very well be my last post on this subject on TS separatism for some time. Unless the separatists want to engage in an intellectually honest fashion by making evidence-based assertions, their rhetoric is meaningless to me. They are the immature burblings of a hubris mind. Who is so self-important that they believe that they can make extraordinary assertions about the nature of reality and expect all to accept it upon faith alone? What sort of movement is this adverse making reasoned arguments? Why the trolling, the hit list, historical revisionism and the ad hom attacks? Attacking me because I'm not willing to take your word on faith alone is a bit dogmatic (IMHO) and smacks more of a belief system than of any objective reality. Just because I won't blindly believe whatever you tell me to believe doesn't mean that I hate you; it only means that I'm skeptical (I mean, skepticism is the meaning of the title of this blog: "ehipassiko"). I tend to think that if the separatists were truly interested in furthering their cause, they should probably spend more time making reasoned arguments and less time trolling.

Also, if it's taken more than a year to collect just half of the 500 signatures you're looking for to "let my people go" from the Transgender Borg (Swedish Chef: borg-borg-borg) then, maybe you need to better communicate your position. If you care about getting people to care about your position, put the multi-sourced, mutually supportive objective evidence out there to make a reasoned argument. I'm not asking you to do anything more than what I've already done myself. If you're unwilling to put forth the same effort that I've put forth in just satisfying my own curiosity, then I'm thinking that you're not really invested in moving any actual movement forward; I'm thinking that you're just interested in internet drama.