They Don't Get it

The simple truth is that gay people, meaning gay men, just don't get transpeople. They consider drag queens, female impersonators and crossdressers transgender when the almost all are just straight or gay people who like to play dressup, either for show, for fun or for personal pleasure.

They hate transwomen because they want to give up the very thing gay men value the most, the genitals, in short, their dick and balls (yes pun intended). They hate that transwomen just want to be women in every day life, with families, friends, jobs, and everything female. To forget they were ever male, let alone men.

And gays take every opportunity to ridicule or humiliate transwomen. Case in point is the show "TrAnnie" by cabaret performer Trevor Ashley and the Sydney Opera House. They apologize but still put on the show which treats transgender people as caricatures and jokes?

What don't they understand? They rail when people joke or make fun of gay men as effiminate despite the reality many are. They rail when people try to mock or put gays into subhuman catatogies of people, like pedophiles.

And then they don't blink an eye when they do the same to transgender people, citing it's just a joke, just a show, just a comment, just this or that. Just. That's their word, just.

When Joe Salmonese promised transgender people would be included in ENDA in Congress, he lied. When Representative Barney Frank promised transgender people would be in the final ENDA bill, he lied stating too much opposition to their inclusion.

When gay people talk about LGBT rights the "T" is for appearances than substance as they always drop transgender from the discussion when things get serious. It's their history and their practice, something they've never changed.

As gay people have always said, "Just wait, your turn will come honey.", and often adding the demeaning, even degrading, word at the end to downplay transpeople as less than equal to them, less than equal to be in the same issue or fight for rights.

We see this time and again with their antics. Treat transgender people as trash, jokes, whatever because you can always apologize later, "They'll undersand since they're in the back of the LGBT bus anyway.", or worse, "They should be happy their on the our bus."

Like we're what? And gays get angry when transpeople stand up and speak. Stand up and tell the truth. Stand up and demand fair and equitable treatment. Stand up for themselves as individuals and a group. And stand up to walk out and achieve more by themselves than with the LGBT community.

It has been President Obama who has included transgender people in his administration's policies and regulations because of transgender people, groups and organizations working for all transgender people, and not for gay or lesbian people. Just themselves.

Yeah, that word, just. Gays use it to apologize. Transgender people use it to succeed. Big difference, but I doubt gays understand that, because gays are too busy being gay to understand. Transgender people are being human beings and real people.