Friday, December 26, 2008
Canaries In The Memphis Civic Coal Mine
Posted by Monica Roberts at 2:37 PM
http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2008/12/canaries-in-memphis-civic-coal-mine.htmlWhen this video first got uploaded to YouTube a few months ago, I thought about posting and commenting on it based on the lousy reporting in it that tried and miserably failed to make this situation humorous.
Because of other pressing news matters and other issues that garnered my attention I let this one slide for a minute.
Now in light of what's been happening in Memphis over the last few months, I'm recognizing it as a alarm bell and a window into the transphobia that permeates some quarters of the community in Memphis. I believe the frustration over that transphobia and other situations in the Memphis transgender community probably triggered the negative reactions of the transpeople involved in this McDonald blowup chronicled in this jacked up report.
