Tuesday, August 09, 2011
The Oldest Trick In The Anti-Civil Rights Playbook
Posted by Monica Roberts at 4:00 PM
http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2011/08/oldest-trick-in-anti-civil-rights.htmlWhile I'm amused at times about the hysteria being whipped up about transpeople and the bathrooms we relieve ourselves in, it is never too far from my mind as a transperson of color that the same arguments people are uttering now about us are the same ones that the Forces of Intolerance fighting to defend Jim Crow segregation were using to defend 'separate but equal' facilities back in the day.
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It's the oldest trick in the anti civil rights playbook to 'scurr' on the fence people into opposing the enactment of legislation to satisfy the legitimate human rights demands of a marginalized group based on lies about the bathroom, and you need to be ashamed of yourselves that your unhinged hatred of transpeople is taking you to that desperate level.
