Really

Reading the news it strikes me the transcommunity, especially the most vocal and public transwomen, will bust their humps to get prison inmates, especially now that Manning has announced to transition in prison in Leavenworth, to get them proper medical care, mostly therapy but especially hormones, free but they won't lift a finger to write a word to help all the transwomen with and especially without health insurnance to cover their transition care and costs, even when they can and want to pay for it through premiums, co-pay and non-essential costs out of pocket.

Is there a more WTF moment with the transcommunity than this? Is it really more about the vocal and public transwomen getting attention than actually get real stuff done for the vast majority of transitioning women?

And no, I don't forget or exclude the work of some of the excellent organizations working on the real issues for transwomen, like medical care, health insurance, job protections, human rights, etc. But the real work is always done by the individual on their own at their own expense, and it's only when they're almost if not completely done do others take credit for "helping" raise the issue.

Yeah, right. I won't argue the transcommunity needs the organizations working and getting results for transwomen, but I'll always argue it doesn't need the voices of the attention-getting transwomen who think they're helping but aren't outside of the publicity.

Don't believe it? Think about all the people who fought to get the California law passed and signed to protect transgender children? Can you name any of them? Did they seek publicitiy or did they focus on the issue and got results?

But how many are speaking out for Manning and the transwomen in state, federal prison? And how much human and financial resources are being spent to protect their rights and help them get free medical care while the rest of the transcommunity has to pay for and often a lot?

And how quickly they want you to forget they're in prison for a reason, they committed crimes, some including the brutal murder of their spouse. Let's not forget Manning stole and gave Wikileaks hundreds of thousands of classified documents. That's why Manning is in Leavenworth, not to get free transition care.

Any wonder people pause to think many in and out the transcommunity have their priorities wrong? And wonder why the LGB community doesn't stand up for transgender people? You only have to look at the voices being raised over and for Manning.