Roberts Provides A Brief History of the Trans / HRC Schism
by Kilian Melloy
EDGE Boston Contributor
Tuesday Oct 9, 2007

Boston Edge

Monica Roberts writes that the schism between transgender people and gays, lesbians, and bisexuals run as deeply as those of the GLBT equality movement itself, to the episode in which Jim Fouratt, a founder of the Gay Liberation Front, excluded Sylvia Rivera, a fellow GLF founder and trans activist, from the GLF. Fouratt, whom Lynn Conway writes of as "A classic example of transphobia" in a 2006 essay posted as the University of Michigan website, continued to antagonize the transgender community as late as 2000, when he called M-to-F transsexuals "misguided gay men who'd undergone surgical mutilations" at a Stonewall observance.


Monica Roberts transgriot blog

See also this post:

https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,20461.0.html

I hope other gay newspapers pick up the story.