Tell Lowell Sun: Christmas Song Mocking Trans Rights is No Joke!
by Steve Williams
December 21, 2011
3:00 pm
http://www.care2.com/causes/tell-lowell-sun-song-mocking-trans-rights-is-no-joke.html The Lowell Sun this week published a host of what are meant to be humorous and topical re-workings of Christmas songs. However one of the songs, to the tune of "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer," makes fun of Chaz Bono's trans identity and the new law in Massachusetts that protects trans people from workplace discrimination.
The song as posted on the news site reads:
To the tune of "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer":
Chaz Bono got turned into a man, dear.
Dancin' with a woman on TV.
You might say there's no such thing as Santa
Till you see what Chaz got 'neath his tree.
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LowellSun.com that the insensitivity of this "twist" on a Christmas song is no joke.
