Buy Girl Scout Cookies With Authority

Normally I try to avoid putting stuff that isn't really related to trans men directly on this blog (mostly because I'm aware the other stories I put here tend to be biased in ways I'm not comfortable with), but... well...

Buy Girl Scout cookies this year.  If you don't have other reasons for not doing so, anyway.

It's a good program.  And it's actually girl-centered rather than cis-girl-centered.  It's inclusive.  It's not the Boy Scouts.  Also I worked for them for a long time.

I'm not particularly worried about them, to be honest... the fact is, when that group disbanded to form a different group, they joined the same organization that was created because the Girl Scouts made mention of "God" in the promise optional.  So they were assholes to begin with.

Just saying, buy Girl Scout cookies.

Some relevant recent crap.

It's been kind of stressful lately what with the ridiculous amount of transphobia out there and the ridiculous amount of people saying they aren't transphobic because women are incapable of oppression.  My favorite recently was that somebody had made a comic that used trans women as a punch line... not the worst punch line I've ever seen, but a punch line nonetheless.  The author was all upset that people called her "privileged" because people were using the word "privilege" as a weapon against her.  The fact that you can say this, by the way, without most people thinking it is an unreasonable request, is because you have privilege.  Zing!


Recently of course the big issue was a trans woman who was assaulted in a Baltimore McDonalds bathroom while an employee did what any upstanding US citizen would do and taped it to put online while people sat by and laughed.  Of course, talk to most people and it's trans women who are the bathroom predators, so how come I'm not hearing more stories like this in which trans women are the ones doing the beating?  This is not a particularly rare occurrence, either.  But noooo, we need to "protect" cis women because they are perpetual victims.  You know what just put the icing on the cake here?  When the story first broke it didn't mention she was a trans woman because the reporters weren't sure about it, and people were commenting on trans-positive blogs with comments like "The article says she was a woman, not a trans woman!"  Seriously.  People on trans-positive blogs commented that.  Of course the articles said she is a woman.  She is a woman.  And even if she were cis, which she is not, she was clearly assaulted because of a perception of being trans, which is still anti-trans crime.

I believe there is also a petition to McDonalds to hold people accountable (last I heard at least one of the employees was fired, good riddance) at Change.org, but it's been down for me so, well...

Please contact WYFF4 and tell them this is not acceptable.

Does this look like a man to you? Me neither.

So I just learned about this through I think TransGriot but from Google magic I learn they've had this problem for quite a while.  WYFF4, a South Carolina station, is reporting on the disappearance and later discovery of a trans woman not only as a "transgender man," but as "a 22 year old Hispanic man who dresses as a female and has breast implants."

What the fuck, WYFF4.  Seriously.  So I am inviting anybody who reads this to please contact them politely to get them to change this.  It is both offensive and against established reporting guidelines to refer to trans people in this way.