The Reality of the Disconnect
http://endablog.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/the-reality-of-the-disconnect/ (http://endablog.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/the-reality-of-the-disconnect/)
Jill Weiss, in an excellent comment at Bilerico (to an also-excellent piece by Tobi Hill-Meyer):
My sense is that LGB leaders often feel uncomfortable with trans people who want to raise difficult issues, and that's pretty much the only kind of issues we got. A number of LGBnotquiteT organizations have asked me to work with them, but balk when I ask for an understanding on my right to dissent from the organizational position on certain issues affecting the trans community. The mostly-G leaders don't want to face trans reality, want nothing less than total control, and wonder why it's hard to get trans people to work with them.
I've lost track of the number of times that my observations about the lack (and, usually, total absence) of trans (particularly transsexual women) employees at "LGBnotquiteT organizations" have been met with the smug retort: Well, you and people like you, aren't team players – a declared-by-us-therefore-its-unchallengeable fact that, in and of itself, justifies our refusal even to consider you for employment.