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Title: Misuse of “LGBT” by activists and reporters (A request)
Post by: Shana A on December 24, 2010, 09:04:22 AM
Post by: Shana A on December 24, 2010, 09:04:22 AM
Misuse of "LGBT" by activists and reporters (A request)
By Zoe O'Connell, on December 24, 2010
http://www.complicity.co.uk/blog/2010/12/misuse-of-lgbt/ (http://www.complicity.co.uk/blog/2010/12/misuse-of-lgbt/)
I have seen some misreporting by LGBT activists over the last few days which I felt I should point out, stemming from the fact that people are typing "LGBT" without thinking. Please consider when reporting on things that a win for LGB folk does not necessarily help Trans people.
The first instance of a non-T "LGBT win" is the real of Don't Ask, Don't Tell. The changes will not, according to any source or discussion I can find, allow Trans people to serve in the US Miltary. The text of the motion merely "provides for repeal of the current Department of Defense (DOD) policy concerning homosexuality in the Armed Forces". Transsexuality is handled as a medical problem, with Army Regulation 40-501 Standards of medical fitness (PDF link) for example lumping together "personality disorders, disorders of impulse control not elsewhere classified, transvestism, voyeurism, other paraphilias, or factitious disorders, psychosexual conditions, transsexual, gender identity disorder to include major abnormalities or defects of the genitalia such as change of sex or a current attempt to change sex, hermaphroditism, pseudohermaphroditism, or pure gonadal dysgenesis or dysfunctional residuals from surgical correction of these conditions". It's nice that they think Trans issues should be listed alongside personality disorders.
By Zoe O'Connell, on December 24, 2010
http://www.complicity.co.uk/blog/2010/12/misuse-of-lgbt/ (http://www.complicity.co.uk/blog/2010/12/misuse-of-lgbt/)
I have seen some misreporting by LGBT activists over the last few days which I felt I should point out, stemming from the fact that people are typing "LGBT" without thinking. Please consider when reporting on things that a win for LGB folk does not necessarily help Trans people.
The first instance of a non-T "LGBT win" is the real of Don't Ask, Don't Tell. The changes will not, according to any source or discussion I can find, allow Trans people to serve in the US Miltary. The text of the motion merely "provides for repeal of the current Department of Defense (DOD) policy concerning homosexuality in the Armed Forces". Transsexuality is handled as a medical problem, with Army Regulation 40-501 Standards of medical fitness (PDF link) for example lumping together "personality disorders, disorders of impulse control not elsewhere classified, transvestism, voyeurism, other paraphilias, or factitious disorders, psychosexual conditions, transsexual, gender identity disorder to include major abnormalities or defects of the genitalia such as change of sex or a current attempt to change sex, hermaphroditism, pseudohermaphroditism, or pure gonadal dysgenesis or dysfunctional residuals from surgical correction of these conditions". It's nice that they think Trans issues should be listed alongside personality disorders.
Title: Re: Misuse of “LGBT” by activists and reporters (A request)
Post by: Muffin on December 24, 2010, 09:21:50 AM
Post by: Muffin on December 24, 2010, 09:21:50 AM
Great example of why I don't identify as T or LGB or LGBT or.........fjghdfihvieurghegrgfr5f