Let my people go!
Target:
GLAAD giuliano@glaad.org
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Petition to remove the umbrella use of the term "transgender" to cover women of transsexual/intersexed history who find such use demeaning of their right to self identify and womanhood.
Petition to remove the umbrella use of the term "transgender" to cover women of transsexual/intersexed history who find such use demeaning of their right to self identify and womanhood.
The term transgender was coined by the rabidly anti-transsexual Charles Prince. It's use as an umbrella term was promoted over the decade of objections by women of transsexual history and those born with the medical condition of transsexual by means of censorship, threats, insults and other unsavory means. This term is highly offensive used to include those of us who had a medical condition, had it corrected and moved on with our lives. By including women (and men) who were born with the neurological intersexed condition known as transsexuality under this term and thus linking them with those with a psycho-sexual pathology, their gender identity is denied by dragging them back to a third gender category against their will. This is an act of verbal violence against their own right of self determination and their core identity, it is a tool of patriarchal thinking. Most individuals who are of transsexual history do NOT believe in the deconstruction of their gender, did not "trans" or cross gender but rather had a consistent gender identity their entire life. Thus the term applied to them is not only demeaning and insulting, it is semantically inaccurate as well.
We the undersigned demand you stop representing us as part of a group which we share absolutely nothing in common. Drop all references to transsexuality being included under the term transgender immediately, revise your media alerts to acknowledge this and in the future consult actual people of transsexual history when you are claiming to represent them. That we are forced to take this step with an organization dedicated to stopping defamation is inexcusable.
We signed the "Let my people go!" petition!
# 90:
8:58 am PST, Jan 3,
Laura Zanoli, Italy
# 89:
11:56 am PST, Dec 31,
Tina Kent, Colorado
Transsexuals have very different needs and goals than other people in the "transgender" group such as cross dressers, transvestites, gender queer, and drag queens/kings. Lumping all of us together as "transgender" perpetuates societal stereotypes that our transition is a hobby or a fetish, and further stigmatizes people who only want to correct an imbalance between body and mind leaving them able to go about living their life as their corrected sex. Transgender people have every right to live their truth, but I am not transgender. I am transsexual.
Transsexuals have very different needs and goals than other people in the "transgender" group such as cross dressers, transvestites, gender queer, and drag queens/kings. Lumping all of us together as "transgender" perpetuates societal stereotypes that our transition is a hobby or a fetish, and further stigmatizes people who only want to correct an imbalance between body and mind leaving them able to go about living their life as their corrected sex. Transgender people have every right to live their truth, but I am not transgender. I am transsexual.
# 88:
11:24 pm PST, Dec 27,
Roxie Schliesman, Wisconsin
# 87:
9:03 am PST, Dec 25,
Martha Leahy, Massachusetts
# 86:
3:37 am PST, Dec 22,
BiLL Fowlie, Maine
# 85:
2:25 am PST, Dec 19,
Silky Wylder, Wisconsin
# 84:
11:37 am PST, Dec 15,
Anita Kofta, Wisconsin
# 83:
4:27 pm PST, Dec 13,
Kieran joshua Beeston, United Kingdom
People should have the right to label themselves if they choose and not have other or society do it for them!. I think being gay or straight or bisexual isnt the problem, i think people cant be bothered to know the difference or ask the person, we just all assume. and being born with the condition of transsexuality doesnt mean you cant be a straight male or straight female when you transition. i am a straight man. and its all legal even on my birth certificate.
People should have the right to label themselves if they choose and not have other or society do it for them!. I think being gay or straight or bisexual isnt the problem, i think people cant be bothered to know the difference or ask the person, we just all assume. and being born with the condition of transsexuality doesnt mean you cant be a straight male or straight female when you transition. i am a straight man. and its all legal even on my birth certificate.
# 82:
6:49 pm PST, Dec 9,
Name not displayed, Tennessee
I am sick of the transphobia engendered by the GLB's claiming to speak for transsexuals, especially when it comes to churches. I am not gay, lesbian, or anything in-between. I have not even been kissed romantically in a number of years; yet, I still get accused of being gay. This identification is sickening, hugely hurtful, and extremely dangerous not only for me but for all other transsexuals, too. I consider myself to be a conservative Christian woman. I have read my Bible multiple times and studied it with respect to my issues long before making the final decision to transition. I love my God, and I know that He loves me. He has not abandoned me. GLB people: LEAVE US ALONE. We respect you enough to let you live your lives. Give us the same honor and respect. (signed) A transsexual woman in the heart of the Bible Belt
I am sick of the transphobia engendered by the GLB's claiming to speak for transsexuals, especially when it comes to churches. I am not gay, lesbian, or anything in-between. I have not even been kissed romantically in a number of years; yet, I still get accused of being gay. This identification is sickening, hugely hurtful, and extremely dangerous not only for me but for all other transsexuals, too. I consider myself to be a conservative Christian woman. I have read my Bible multiple times and studied it with respect to my issues long before making the final decision to transition. I love my God, and I know that He loves me. He has not abandoned me. GLB people: LEAVE US ALONE. We respect you enough to let you live your lives. Give us the same honor and respect. (signed) A transsexual woman in the heart of the Bible Belt
# 81:
1:33 am PST, Dec 3,
Name not displayed, Washington
I'm tired of being abused by these transgender men. They want to take away my life so that they can indulge their fantasies. I still don't understand what "rights" they are trying to get. Do they seriously think passing laws will allow them to escape the wrath of their wife and wear dresses to work?
I'm tired of being abused by these transgender men. They want to take away my life so that they can indulge their fantasies. I still don't understand what "rights" they are trying to get. Do they seriously think passing laws will allow them to escape the wrath of their wife and wear dresses to work?
# 80:
11:24 am PST, Nov 19,
BT BT, Georgia
WOW! Would love to meet other men and women who have the same condition of intersexed/transsexualism http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StealthWorld
WOW! Would love to meet other men and women who have the same condition of intersexed/transsexualism http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StealthWorld
# 79:
12:23 pm PST, Nov 14,
Kiera Bacon, Canada
I strongly believe that it is important to recognize equality between those who are transgender and those who are transsexual, but it is also important to recognize that the two terms describe different people. The transgender label does not accurately describe the experience of people born with a body of the wrong sex, just as the transsexual label does not accurately describe the experience of those whose body is congruent but whose minds are not.
I strongly believe that it is important to recognize equality between those who are transgender and those who are transsexual, but it is also important to recognize that the two terms describe different people. The transgender label does not accurately describe the experience of people born with a body of the wrong sex, just as the transsexual label does not accurately describe the experience of those whose body is congruent but whose minds are not.
# 77:
11:58 pm PDT, Oct 22,
Mellanie Michaels, Maine
# 76:
10:30 am PDT, Oct 20,
Cori Pautz, Pennsylvania
# 75:
12:17 am PDT, Oct 16,
Megan O'Donnell, Florida
# 74:
6:07 pm PDT, Oct 15,
Nerissa Belcher, Georgia
"Transsexual" is a recognized medical diagnosis. "Transgender" is a political movement. I prefer the two terms be used correctly and not be mixed up to benefit TGs while risking the gains TSs have made.
"Transsexual" is a recognized medical diagnosis. "Transgender" is a political movement. I prefer the two terms be used correctly and not be mixed up to benefit TGs while risking the gains TSs have made.
# 73:
3:54 pm PDT, Aug 30,
Stephanie Ogrady, New York
Joanne proctor please contact me
Joanne proctor please contact me
# 71:
12:56 pm PDT, Aug 24,
Name not displayed, Oregon
Transsexuals have as much in common with transgenders as Hell's Angels have with leather gays. It would be ridiculous to say that because they both wear leather and often ride motorcycles that Hell's Angels are a subset of leather gays; even if members of both groups are politically active and mutually supportive of repealing mandatory helmet laws or both attended Harely Davidson sponsored events. The only place I do not see analogy here is in how transsexuals react to forced identity with queer community versus how the Hell's Angel's would likely react if gay media groups insisted to the public that Hell's Angel's be identified as members of queer community. It is also ridculous to say a transsexual woman who has sex reassignment surgery so she can have sex with a man that she would otherwise not be mentally capable of is the same thing as a homosexual crossdresser who pitches as well as catches anal sex.
Transsexuals have as much in common with transgenders as Hell's Angels have with leather gays. It would be ridiculous to say that because they both wear leather and often ride motorcycles that Hell's Angels are a subset of leather gays; even if members of both groups are politically active and mutually supportive of repealing mandatory helmet laws or both attended Harely Davidson sponsored events. The only place I do not see analogy here is in how transsexuals react to forced identity with queer community versus how the Hell's Angel's would likely react if gay media groups insisted to the public that Hell's Angel's be identified as members of queer community. It is also ridculous to say a transsexual woman who has sex reassignment surgery so she can have sex with a man that she would otherwise not be mentally capable of is the same thing as a homosexual crossdresser who pitches as well as catches anal sex.
# 70:
11:07 am PDT, Aug 20,
Janice Ray Jeffreys, California
GLAAD needs to mind their own gay business and stay out of my surgically corrected crotch.
GLAAD needs to mind their own gay business and stay out of my surgically corrected crotch.
# 69:
10:43 pm PDT, Aug 18,
Name not displayed, Connecticut
I'm an intersex person born with Kallmann's syndrome and I am sick and tired of the transgender community transjacking the intersex community and trying to co-opt the intersex community.
I'm an intersex person born with Kallmann's syndrome and I am sick and tired of the transgender community transjacking the intersex community and trying to co-opt the intersex community.
# 68:
9:46 pm PDT, Aug 18,
Name not displayed, South Dakota
Transgender should not include the people suffering from Harry Benjamin Syndrome as the HBS sufferers are women born as males and the transgender are just men who want to look like women. Most transgenders I've had the displeasure of chatting with brag about their sexually loose lifestyles and the size of the genitals.
Transgender should not include the people suffering from Harry Benjamin Syndrome as the HBS sufferers are women born as males and the transgender are just men who want to look like women. Most transgenders I've had the displeasure of chatting with brag about their sexually loose lifestyles and the size of the genitals.
# 67:
10:06 am PDT, Aug 14,
Andi Alnwick, New York
# 66:
12:22 pm PDT, Aug 11,
Lotte Nar Lotte, Texas
Not for nothing does it say in Romans 1:26 "God gave them up unto vile affectations", and that isn't just the sodomites and onanists! It includes those who profane Deuteronoly 22:5 "The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God." I may have been born with the disgusting physical attributes of a male, it may have taken me many years to divest myself of those revolting appendages, but tht does not mean I can't remain a true and chaste woman.
Not for nothing does it say in Romans 1:26 "God gave them up unto vile affectations", and that isn't just the sodomites and onanists! It includes those who profane Deuteronoly 22:5 "The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God." I may have been born with the disgusting physical attributes of a male, it may have taken me many years to divest myself of those revolting appendages, but tht does not mean I can't remain a true and chaste woman.
# 64:
5:34 pm PDT, Aug 10,
Name not displayed, California
I had second thoughts about signing this petition. I corrected my birth defect and have no stake in this dispute. What changed my mind was my realization that if I didn’t step up and make an accounting for myself a great injustice would be done. I have friends who have also dealt with their birth defects and some identify as TS. I cannot turn my back on them with a clear conscience. Because I live in a city that has a large number of transgenders in it, my name shall remain concealed because I fear retaliation. It wouldn’t be the first time these cultists have dealt reprisal for something I have said or a position I have stood by. For a group who say all they want is to be accepted they sure have gang mentality. Self identified transsexuals should not have to be lumped in with or tagged with the same label.
I had second thoughts about signing this petition. I corrected my birth defect and have no stake in this dispute. What changed my mind was my realization that if I didn’t step up and make an accounting for myself a great injustice would be done. I have friends who have also dealt with their birth defects and some identify as TS. I cannot turn my back on them with a clear conscience. Because I live in a city that has a large number of transgenders in it, my name shall remain concealed because I fear retaliation. It wouldn’t be the first time these cultists have dealt reprisal for something I have said or a position I have stood by. For a group who say all they want is to be accepted they sure have gang mentality. Self identified transsexuals should not have to be lumped in with or tagged with the same label.
# 63:
3:13 pm PDT, Aug 10,
Natalia Platte, Saint Kitts And Nevis
I absolutely agree. I happen to have a Y chromosome, so I'm automatically lumped in with the big, hairy, muscle-bound males - crossdressers or otherwise. We need to make a stand against patriarchal labelling and steroetyping. I chose to have my gonads removed for very good reasons, and the sooner male-kind realise their faults lie with their hormone-ridden bodies the better. Oh, and like you guys, I hate trannies too!
I absolutely agree. I happen to have a Y chromosome, so I'm automatically lumped in with the big, hairy, muscle-bound males - crossdressers or otherwise. We need to make a stand against patriarchal labelling and steroetyping. I chose to have my gonads removed for very good reasons, and the sooner male-kind realise their faults lie with their hormone-ridden bodies the better. Oh, and like you guys, I hate trannies too!
# 62:
7:57 am PDT, Aug 10,
Name not displayed, United Kingdom
Quite agreed, as a non-binary identified person whose gender has never changed I hate being referred to as transgender. Referring to women, men or other people as if their gender has altered invalidates their right to self identify. As a matter of medical record I am post-op and therefore transsexed; as far as anybody else is concerned I am the gender I say I am and the sex that I appear to be whether clothed or naked.
Quite agreed, as a non-binary identified person whose gender has never changed I hate being referred to as transgender. Referring to women, men or other people as if their gender has altered invalidates their right to self identify. As a matter of medical record I am post-op and therefore transsexed; as far as anybody else is concerned I am the gender I say I am and the sex that I appear to be whether clothed or naked.
# 59:
3:58 am PDT, Aug 7,
Moira O'Brien, Ireland
# 58:
1:25 am PDT, Aug 7,
Name not displayed, Washington
As a transsexual woman living in a conservative suburban area, I have to fear men attacking me for what people of a totally different sexual nature do when they "trick" straight men into "gay" sex. By telling the world I have a peer sexuality kinship with a man who goes into the hamper, puts on his wife's undergarments and masterbates over the toilet bowl makes a mockey of who I am and severely damages any chance of making friends with natural social peers.
As a transsexual woman living in a conservative suburban area, I have to fear men attacking me for what people of a totally different sexual nature do when they "trick" straight men into "gay" sex. By telling the world I have a peer sexuality kinship with a man who goes into the hamper, puts on his wife's undergarments and masterbates over the toilet bowl makes a mockey of who I am and severely damages any chance of making friends with natural social peers.
# 53:
8:50 pm PDT, Aug 3,
Name not displayed, Germany
I'm the initiator of the Study group BSBDS. Q 57.0 BSBDS ( = Brain Sex / Body Discrepancy Syndrome) SHOULD BE the future expression for the second form of cerebral intersexuality. The first form is already known as homosexuality.
I'm the initiator of the Study group BSBDS. Q 57.0 BSBDS ( = Brain Sex / Body Discrepancy Syndrome) SHOULD BE the future expression for the second form of cerebral intersexuality. The first form is already known as homosexuality.
# 52:
3:50 pm PDT, Aug 3,
Tara Hewitt, United Kingdom
# 51:
3:17 pm PDT, Aug 3,
Viktoria Whittaker, New York
I myself am not a transsexual woman. I am signing in support of transsexual women. Although as a non-trans woman, I am fed up with the "womyn-born-womyn" only policy of certain womens' events, I am still not comfortable with crossdressers or other male-bodied gender fetishists entering womens' space. If you are a woman, you are welcome there. If you aren't, then you are not.
I myself am not a transsexual woman. I am signing in support of transsexual women. Although as a non-trans woman, I am fed up with the "womyn-born-womyn" only policy of certain womens' events, I am still not comfortable with crossdressers or other male-bodied gender fetishists entering womens' space. If you are a woman, you are welcome there. If you aren't, then you are not.
