That is the title of a post at the self-proclaimed "LGBT Huffington Post".
It is far worse than you can imagine. Far worse.
Please read Lisa Harney's article about it at Questioning Transphobia.
It is beyond shameful and beneath contempt.
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Here is the comment I left after the article at Bilerico, which has yet to be approved by the moderators:
This post is in no way “challenging”…it is purely “offensive”.
“I hope I’ll be forgiven for rejecting as just plain silly the idea that some cosmic accident just turned these people into changelings.” (quote from the cis fag who wrote original post)
Following the author’s “logic”, what is one to make of people who are intersex? What “delusion” does THEIR equipment “belie”? Based on his statement about “equipment”, the author clearly concedes that biology plays a role in the development of a person’s sex and secondary sex characteristics. This is true of people born male, female, and intersex.
It is relatively common knowledge that not all intersex “conditions” are necessarily visibly identifiable (some cases of congenital adrenal hyperplasia come to mind)–they require medical testing to “diagnose”.
Is the author so intellectually dense that the possibility that being transgender might be related to intersexuality never occurred to him (I am not saying that it is, I am just using this example to make a point)?
Bilerico would never allow someone to post an article recommending that parents straighten out their LGB teens by giving them a lecture–and proceeded to call people who “think they are lesbian, gay or bisexual” delusional.
This author is spouting the same crap about the supposed etiological factors that cause people to identify as transgender as a fringe group of quack mental health professionals called NARTH (the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality). NARTH–a hate group– also uses long-debunked pseudoscientific theories (similar to the author’s feeble speculations) to explain the etiology of homosexuality.
Has Bilerico’s readership gotten so small that it is willing to sink to these depths to gain a few more hits?
This article is hate speech–unambiguous, blatant, and glaring hate speech. The pathetic disclaimer that Bilerico put up to distance itself from the author’s archaic (at best), uninformed, and hateful views only highlights this fact–it also proves they are quite aware that it is hate speech. But since the target of the hate speech is the “T” in their ostensibly LGBT readership, they have decided to leave it posted here.
After all, who gives a crap if a few “trannies” are deeply offended and hurt, right? They are easy targets, and as long as your actual target audience–cisgender gaysbien soccer moms and soldiers training for ordination to the priesthood–isn’t concerned about it, then what is the problem?
I support free speech and the author’s right to broadcast his puerile ignorance. That doesn’t mean Bilerico–a site supposedly for the LGB AND T “community”–has to serve as a megaphone for hate.
The editors should remove this putrid example of hate speech from the site and issue a formal apology to transgender readers now.
But they won’t. They need a way to attract people to the site to click on the ads. That’s clearly more important that transgender people’s lives.
To all transgender people everywhere:
You are not a "cosmic accident". You are a cosmic gift.
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