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Tell Lowell Sun: Christmas Song Mocking Trans Rights is No Joke!

Started by Shana A, December 22, 2011, 09:16:01 AM

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Shana A

December 22, 2011, 09:16:01 AM
Tell Lowell Sun: Christmas Song Mocking Trans Rights is No Joke!

    by Steve Williams
    December 21, 2011
    3:00 pm

http://www.care2.com/causes/tell-lowell-sun-song-mocking-trans-rights-is-no-joke.html

The Lowell Sun this week published a host of what are meant to be humorous and topical re-workings of Christmas songs. However one of the songs, to the tune of "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer," makes fun of Chaz Bono's trans identity and the new law in Massachusetts that protects trans people from workplace discrimination.

The song as posted on the news site reads:

To the tune of "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer":

Chaz Bono got turned into a man, dear.

Dancin' with a woman on TV.

You might say there's no such thing as Santa

Till you see what Chaz got 'neath his tree.

[...]

TAKE ACTION: Sign the petition below to tell LowellSun.com that the insensitivity of this "twist" on a Christmas song is no joke.
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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