1/3/13
Video; Russian Duma LGBT Kiss in Met With Violence And Arrests
Гомофобы и полиция попытались сорвать флешмоб против принятия гомофобного закона у здания Государственной Думы. 19 декабря 2012, видео Дмитрия Зыкова для www.grani.ru
Police and homophobes tried to disrupt and FlashMob against homophobic law outside the State Duma. December 19, 2012, Dmitry Zykova for www.grani.ru videos
Arrested at the kiss in was one of my favorite journalists Elena Kostyuchenko who writes for Novaya Gazeta one of the last remaining free press outlets in Putin's Russia.
Read more at Gay Star News
1/2/13
NH AG Issues Opinion: Transwoman Stacie Laughton May Not Run For Office.
Laughton made a huge deal of resigning then stated she was running again, to fill the seat she had just vacated. |
Is this finally over? Laughton says she is planning to remove her name from contention.
I couldn't believe it when Laughton said she was running to fill the seat she hadn't even officially taken. Well, she forced the hand and I just hope this is the end of this mess.
Read more at NPR A.G.: Criminal History Bars Nashua Transgender Woman From Holding Office
1/1/13
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Transgender Is No Longer A Disorder.
Trans Folk Don't believe the headlines. Transgender is still included in The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).
Nearly every day we see it "Transgender no longer a disorder". That headline has been repeated Ad nauseam in nearly every gay publication until even CNN http://fox8.com/2012/12/27/transgender-no-longer-a-mental-disorder/ is repeating the story, almost word for word.
I have begun to wonder if maybe the people who use our pathologization against us will begin to believe it too, if they read it enough. I'm here to say, we are still patholoigized and no they won't because unlike the trans people who want to believe things are better they want to. They know better than that . As long as we remain in the DSM we will have that chain around our collective necks.
It's a great headline for gay and mainstream media. Its sensational and it lifts the guilt tha gay and lesbians feel for sacrificing us. We weren't added until homosexuality was removed. Gay people knew there was only one way to advance there agenda and they did it.
Dysphoria. Granted there's is a slight difference in the dichotomy and if our diagnosis is focused on helping gender dysphoric individuals transition successfully, that an improvement too. But at what cost?
We remain patholigized despite massive protests in Europe and keyboard plunking in the States.
About a half of the 5,000 trans people on the https://www.facebook.com/events/131907566870401/?ref=ts&fref=ts facebook page I begun wanted our complete removal, many of them signing the petition. http://www.change.org/petitions/remove-transgender-from-the-dsm-5
Many of the remaining folks were happy with the status quo hoping one day there insurance would better cover transition. Many couldn't care less because they self medicate and when and if they opt for SRS, they just get it.
Did those of us who wanted our removal succeed? No, most likely we failed despite my best efforts at getting local people out from behind their keyboards. That was somehow my fault. Not the gay communities. We didn't take to the street at key moments and gain the spotlight as they did twenty years ago.
The facts.
The December first 2012 press release from the APA announced the next bureaucratic step needed to publish the DSM-5 had been taken place by the board voting it's approval.
And the world fell over themselves to announce trans people were no longer listed as "disordered" by in the DSM.
Did I miss something in that press release?
The Message From APA President Dilip Jeste, M.D., on DSM-5 offers no specifics, only justifications and denials regarding the process.
So whats up?
The often quoted Med Page published in May following the last public meeting reports what may not up:
"Gender identity disorder. Individuals who believe their biological gender doesn't match their gender identification will no longer be labeled with a disorder. Instead, if they seek psychiatric treatment, they can be labeled with "gender dysphoria."
The workgroup responsible for dealing with the hot-button issue considered a variety of other approaches, addressed later in this article. Ultimately they settled on a formal diagnosis -- potentially qualifying a patient for insurance-paid treatment if they want it -- but with a less pejorative name than "disorder."
So the name might change but what is the difference between the two words and what does it mean to trans people? The free medical dictionary defines....
Gender Identity Disorder:
"The psychological diagnosis gender identity disorder (GID) is used to describe a male or female that feels a strong identification with the opposite sex and experiences considerable distress because of their actual sex."
Gender Dysphoria:
"unhappiness with one's biological sex or its usual gender role, with the desire for the body and role of the opposite sex.
Not much difference between the two words is there?
Please understand, this is just conjuncture since no further official information available until the DSM-5 is published in May 2013.
But given that one D word is being substituted for another what's the end result?
We remain pathologized by the APA
pa·thol·o·gize
/pəˈTHäləˌjīz/Verb
Regard or treat (someone or something) as psychologically abnormal or unhealthy
Which in my opinion denies us our rightful place among the worlds well adapted productive citizens.
So try as hard as I may I failed, kind of. Who knows. I did give space to those who wanted conversation. But most importantly, those who wanted our total removal from the DSM as well.
But now its just a waiting game. The APA has what it wants, our undivided attention, our money, the guidelines to normality, acceptability and our chances at success in life.
Patrick Bonnett of Omaha Liberty Project Busted. Religious Rights Are Protected.
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Patrick Bonnett of Omaha Liberty Project told Channel 6 News, "Ordinances like this lead to unintended consequences and those consequences lead to discrimination against religious liberties, religious freedoms of speech, rights of conscience and we oppose that."
Bonnett's real fear is that non religious business owners (where his bread is buttered) will be compelled to place the city's laws above there own fears. Bonnett hopes by misinforming and fear mongering he will persuade enough people to sign the petition and force a public vote on a minorities rights.
Dispelling the lies. Omaha's laws:
The Liberty Project petition tells potential signers that the law now says:
Source: Liberty Project
Rhetorical question: Would the liberty project, religious bookstores or Churches deny me employment if I asked to sweep there floors before this amendment was passed? How about after it's passage?
In case Omaha's Church's don't all ready do discriminate this the ordnance makes it clear that they do have the right to discriminate against me:
Source: Omaha Municipal Codes.
What about jobs other than ministering?
A church's membership obviously would decline so keeping it clean, mowing or shoveling snow would be considered essential to it's religious activity.
Administration and clerical duties would suffer if a godless transgender person like myself were to sabotage it, so of course that position is essential to a churches religious function.
The truth is most LGBT people have a spiritual belief. Many including myself attend a religious gathering and it has always been our practice to insure those religious rights are protected.
I will ask the good people of Omaha to consider this. Transgender people were spoken about three times in the Bible. Once in the old Testament by God, once by Jesus and once by a angel and to see what the Liberty Project for what they really are, hatemongers.
12/29/12
Anonymous to Release All Steubenville "Rape Squad" Info and Child Porno Found In emails
Anonymous Threatens To Release All On Steubenville's Alleged Football Rape Squad If No Apology is Given to Victim by 1/1/2013.
We wouldn't have known there was a rape had it not been for one courageous blogger investigating the crime in spite of a lawsuit to shut her up. She knew it was being ignored by local law enforcement.
Video released January 3rd 2013 by KnightSec shows young men, one wearing a Steubenville tshirt, joking and laughing about the rape of this minor girl.
We wouldn't have known there was a rape had it not been for one courageous blogger investigating the crime in spite of a lawsuit to shut her up. She knew it was being ignored by local law enforcement.
Video released January 3rd 2013 by KnightSec shows young men, one wearing a Steubenville tshirt, joking and laughing about the rape of this minor girl.
2012 planetransgender Top 7? Not a Super Star Studded Review. Just Us.
planetransgender 7 top posts for 2012.
Why 7? Because the number 10 is everyone else's TOP POST number. Why 10 anyways, it's too many? And I will tell you how many page views each post got, lets see one of the top 10-ers do that.
1. 6693 pageviews:
Tegan Smith Handcuffed Dragged Off Plane at Dallas Love Field "for being trans" Went viral thanks to you. And thanks to you airlines may reconsider pulling one off us off their planes on account of our trans-ness.
2. 5157 pageviews:
The Alice and Dana L Word Hot Lesbian Sex Scene YouTube Allowed . I thought that post would never be knocked off the poll spot. It was a little bit misleading as it was a love scene and not so much sexual. But I'm a blogger, so hey it's hot love.
3. 3030 pageviews:
RadFem Cathy Brennan, Lawyer, Maliciously OUTS 17 Y.O. Transgender Youth To His High School . Brennan will stop at nothing to prove she was offended by a trans person using the word 'rape' even if it was a unfortunate utterance in jest by a child.
4. 1873 pageviews:
This Pussy Writer Riots Against Putin's Russian Orthodox Inquisition. Before Pussy Riot gained superstar status with sting there were only us, the grass roots humanists blogging about there plight. Now I can't even get on Amnesty International Interactive wall. True anonymity is achieved.
5. 1841 pageviews:
Meteor Drag Queen Performer Paul Ryder: The Transphobia YOU spread HAS tried to Kill Me. A highly controversial post I will do again and again as many times as anyone, even someone from under the umbrella profits and worst yet gloats from enhancing transphobia.
6. 1589 pageviews:
Cathy Brennan's "Sorry about Your Dick". Yes Brennan made the top 7 twice. One thing for sure, Brennan knows how to step on it. Yes Brennan you stepped on your dick twice in 12. Hard. Crushing stomps even.
7. zero views:
Sooo, I only posted 6 so sue me, but you got to get in line. Anyways thats it. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your readership. We have made a difference adding 100,000 pageviews this year, many coming from those of us who wish to stay informed but some came from our enemies, and they are impressed so keep coming back. And don't forget, not that I ever said this publicly before, opposing views are welcome. I am not the only one on this planetransgender.
Why 7? Because the number 10 is everyone else's TOP POST number. Why 10 anyways, it's too many? And I will tell you how many page views each post got, lets see one of the top 10-ers do that.
1. 6693 pageviews:
Tegan Smith Handcuffed Dragged Off Plane at Dallas Love Field "for being trans" Went viral thanks to you. And thanks to you airlines may reconsider pulling one off us off their planes on account of our trans-ness.
2. 5157 pageviews:
The Alice and Dana L Word Hot Lesbian Sex Scene YouTube Allowed . I thought that post would never be knocked off the poll spot. It was a little bit misleading as it was a love scene and not so much sexual. But I'm a blogger, so hey it's hot love.
3. 3030 pageviews:
RadFem Cathy Brennan, Lawyer, Maliciously OUTS 17 Y.O. Transgender Youth To His High School . Brennan will stop at nothing to prove she was offended by a trans person using the word 'rape' even if it was a unfortunate utterance in jest by a child.
4. 1873 pageviews:
This Pussy Writer Riots Against Putin's Russian Orthodox Inquisition. Before Pussy Riot gained superstar status with sting there were only us, the grass roots humanists blogging about there plight. Now I can't even get on Amnesty International Interactive wall. True anonymity is achieved.
5. 1841 pageviews:
Meteor Drag Queen Performer Paul Ryder: The Transphobia YOU spread HAS tried to Kill Me. A highly controversial post I will do again and again as many times as anyone, even someone from under the umbrella profits and worst yet gloats from enhancing transphobia.
6. 1589 pageviews:
Cathy Brennan's "Sorry about Your Dick". Yes Brennan made the top 7 twice. One thing for sure, Brennan knows how to step on it. Yes Brennan you stepped on your dick twice in 12. Hard. Crushing stomps even.
7. zero views:
Sooo, I only posted 6 so sue me, but you got to get in line. Anyways thats it. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your readership. We have made a difference adding 100,000 pageviews this year, many coming from those of us who wish to stay informed but some came from our enemies, and they are impressed so keep coming back. And don't forget, not that I ever said this publicly before, opposing views are welcome. I am not the only one on this planetransgender.
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