LGBT alphabet soup: discuss at one's own risk, because it's about a much larger

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LGBT alphabet soup: discuss at one's own risk, because it's about a much larger conversation
Pam's House Blend
by:  Pam Spaulding
Thu Jun 03, 2010 at 15:30:00 PM EDT


http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/16309/lgbt-alphabet-soup-discuss-at-ones-own-risk-because-its-about-a-much-larger-conversation



    Just when I thought it was safe to go back to AmericaBlog, he has unleashed a ->-bleeped-<- storm of transphobia with his latest post I'm not an 'LGBT American'. It's not so much what he said. It's just the usual anti-alphabet soup diatribe. I used to feel the same way, even before the "T" was added. But just as there is the concept of "settled law", this is a settled question. Get over it.  It's not so much what he said, but he had to know the kind of comments this would attract. Comment after comment blaming transgender people for the problems with passing ENDA, asking what gay people have in common with transgender people, etc. I thought we had put that crap behind us.
    -- claudew @ Thu Jun 03, 2010 at 01:19:32 AM EDT

When I read this comment at the time, I had not read John's piece, so I surfed over to read and think about the spirit of the post and the reaction to it. Claudew is correct that the rank transphobia in the comments is a throwback to the T-stripped, HRC-approved ENDA days of pain and agony. But did John's essay cause that reaction in this post, or does the discussion of the community's every changing alphabet soup in any context set it off?