Thursday, March 10, 2011
Stop Challenging My Humanity
Posted by Monica Roberts at 12:00 PM
http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2011/03/stop-challenging-my-humanity.html (http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2011/03/stop-challenging-my-humanity.html)
'To deny any person their human rights is to challenge their very humanity' Nelson Mandela
While I was watching yesterday's HB 235 hearings in Maryland online I thought about that Mandela quote as I heard our opponents repeatedly lie about who transpeople are. I watched our (In) Equality Maryland 'alles' lie twice and claim we supported a flawed bill, and claim the community was over the 2001 drama in which transpeople were cut out of a GLB bill that surprise surprise has public accommodations language in it.
I'll gripe about that later. What I'm beyond sick and tired of is fauxgressive friends and foes challenging our humanity.