Jennifer Boylan's Testimony

Jennifer Boylan posted her testimony on her Facebook page (FB login required), first video here, about a bill before the Maine legislature to repeal protections for transgender people, currently protected along with LGB (add T) people from discrimination.

She makes several excellent points but one which is prominent in the transcommunity, and one would say divides the community itself into several groups and is reason why many post-transistion women leave the community, not identifying as transgender, which they aren't in my book but just men and women where anything trans is their history but who they are now, and don't rarely if ever get involved again.

In short, it's often an argument within the community to divide those who pass and those who don't and the rest in the middle wanting to pass more and not be identified with those who don't anytime. Yeah, that argument, do you look like a women despite your past.

And those who don't pass in any sense of the word where they're clearly and obviously not entirely female, the problem almost all crossdressers have since they're still men underneath with no interest to transistion but merely present themselves as apparent women (often called playing dressup), become the poster children of those wanting laws against all in and post-transistion women.

Strange it's not a problem with the men's bathroom. Why? Because men don't care and aren't worried other weren't borm male. Just do your business and leave. But with the women's restroom, every anti-trans person is afraid of potential threats, even though there is no evidence of it and no case of anyone being arrested for anything they're worried about.

But it doesn't stop them from using non-passing (trans)women and more so crossdressers, who aren't transgender, as examples of "men in dresses" wanting to attact women and assault children. Yeah, right. But they can't prove there is a threat let alone a risk, realistically anyway.

It's an imaginary issue to excite and incite people against transpeople. And Jennifer Boylan puts the argument to rest. It's only a reality in the imagination of those who hate anyone different than them, by race, color, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and gender identity. A bunch of strait-laced, uptight people with their head somewhere other than on top of their neck.

Anyway, Jennfier Boylan is cool, smart and hard to argue against.