"LGBT"

http://binarysubverter.wordpress.com/2011/01/13/lgbt/ 🔗
1/13/11

As you may or may not know, this blog got started when a "LGBTQ" Center, specifically a "Trans Activism" group (run by a cis man), turned out to be spectacularly transphobic. Sadly, this is not terribly uncommon. Yes, it's probably ignorance (which is transphobia)- but because the cis-privileged people I had to deal with responded to being told they were being offensive with either "you're wrong" (and their proof of why was, of course, transphobic) and "it's offensive to tell me I'm being offensive", it is officially willful ignorance and not "innocent" misinformation. And while it isn't my job to educate them, even if it were, I wouldn't be able to do it and there's absolutely no way to make this place trans friendly until they get over their privilege.

Makes me really happy for Oasis out here. I hardly went when I found them (I wasn't comfortable around other LG folks, I'm better now) but I do remember them having a pink bathroom and a blue bathroom and for you to use whatever you preferred.