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...
