An open response to Gregory Kane of the Washington Examiner

http://transprov.wordpress.com/2011/05/20/an-open-response-to-gregory-kane-of-the-washington-examiner/
5/20/11
by Lorelei Erisis

The following blog entry began, as these "Open Letters" often do, as a reaction to a piece of venomous anti-trans bile I stumbled across in the wilds of the internets. I find that I start to write a "comment" and as the word-count climbs I realize I have much more to say than is appropriate for that kind of forum. Thankfully, I have a blog of my own.

I had been intentionally refraining from writing anything about the recent beating in a Baltimore McDonald's of a woman named Chrissy Lee Polis, who as it happens is also transsexual. The reason for this is that I felt much had been said about the incident already. Her tragedy had been claimed and counter-claimed by various people and groups all purporting to know just what this woman was going through and using the publicity generated by this tragedy as fuel for their own fires.