'The same-sex marriage fight is just as much a transgender fight as it is (an LGB) fight'
Posted on 23 Aug 2010 at 10:19am

http://www.dallasvoice.com/nikki-araguzs-attorney-slams-national-gayrights-groups-ignoring-->-bleeped-<--marriage-texas-1040575.html

Phyllis Randolph Frye, the well-known transgender attorney from Houston whose clients include trans widow Nikki Araguz, sent out an e-mail Sunday slamming national gay-rights groups for ignoring the issue of "'->-bleeped-<-' same-sex marriage" in Texas.

Referencing an op-ed that appeared in Sunday's Houston Chronicle about the Araguz case, Frye notes that in the six weeks since the story broke, few people have gotten behind her client's legal fight. Nikki Araguz is seeking to receive death benefits for her husband, Thomas Araguz III, a Wharton firefighter who was killed in the line of duty early last month. But Thomas Araguz's family has sued to deny Nikki Araguz those benefits, arguing that their marriage was void because she was born a man, since Texas' prohibits same-sex marriage.

"Why is it that the Prop 8, same-sex marriage fight in CA and the DOMA same-sex marriage fight in the Northeast are BOTH so well funded by lesbian and gay groups and lesbian and gay individuals, but the same-sex marriage fight in Texas has been thus far supported ONLY by a small number of mostly transgenders plus three LGBT-allied churches, mostly in Houston, all in Texas?" Frye wrote.

Because this is a transgender problem, not a gay or lesbian problem.  (Sarcasm intended)

Go out there into the LGB community and you will unfortunately find quite a number of gays and lesbians that want to have nothing to do with TGs.  The stigma is so bad they want to distance themselves from us as far away as possible.  Sad but true.