Ron Gold's Post Is Down: What Now?
Filed by: Rebecca Juro
December 12, 2009 4:00 PM
http://www.bilerico.com/2009/12/ron_golds_post_is_down_what_now.phpAround 9pm Friday night, Ronald Gold's first and only post as a Bilerico contributor has been removed from the site and his contributor status has been withdrawn. Gold's post had amassed over 300 comments, virtually all of them negative. In response to the outcry, Bilerico Project Publisher Bil Browning posted to apologize for the trauma and hurt feelings Mr. Gold's transphobic attack on transgender identity has been responsible for, particularly among Bilerico's transgender readership and contributor staff.
This is frankly a really uncomfortable position for me to be in. I'm a Bilerico contributor and former editor, but I'm also a transwoman who found Gold's post to be not only transphobic, but also completely outside the boundaries of good taste, quality discussion, and basic civility and politeness. As one of the transgender contributors who has been posting at Bilerico the longest and cares deeply about the site and about my publisher and friend Bil Browning, I feel the need to say something more coherent on this than the many short comments I've posted and tweeted on this topic since this became an issue.
