I Am The Transsexual Your Boyfriend Wants to Be With: On Thought Catalog's Transphobia Problem
http://www.transadvocate.com/i-am-the-transsexual-your-boyfriend-wants-to-be-with-on-thought-catalogs-transphobia-problem.htm (http://www.transadvocate.com/i-am-the-transsexual-your-boyfriend-wants-to-be-with-on-thought-catalogs-transphobia-problem.htm)
7/18/13
I wake up, like any other woman, run my fingers through my long, bed-head hair, wishing I could stay asleep, and go to pour some cereal and coffee for breakfast. I decide to check my Twitter and my Facebook page, and in my feed I see a Thought Catalog post that looks interesting. I click, I read, I find a little bit of inspiration.
This has been a fairly accurate description of many mornings that I have spent before school or work, containing incredibly mundane experiences that even excluding my perspective as that as a woman are entirely relatable to more or less anyone reading them. That is why I was shocked to stumble across the piece published by Thought Catalog entitled "I Think My Boyfriend Wants To Be With A Transsexual" In which the author (who was brave enough to hide behind a veil of anonymity) takes pride in referring to trans people not only incorrectly (referring to trans women as transsexual men) but as "things".