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Hunters manager Peter Lansdorf has said the policy was instituted to protect against cross-dressing prostitutes conducting business on their grounds, but event organizers believe otherwise:
"It is widely believed that the Hunters door policy is being executed selectively to ban certain transgendered women, and is a classic example of 'profiling,'" read an event press release. "Community members wish to send a message of continued patronage and support to LGBTQ spaces that protect the rights and safety of gender-alternative people and to assert that policies that exclude transgendered people threaten the entire LGBTQ community as well as all people invested in equality."
Seriously, denied a vodka-tonic just because of some pantyhose and mascara? And we claim to be a free nation.
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Tranny? I've found the use of of the word "Tranny" to be offensive among the Transgender community...
I think "Trans" might be more appropriate....
I DONT KNOW WHO WROTE THIS CRAP BUT THEY NEED TO CORRECT IT IN SOME WAY LIKE THE PERSON WHO COMMENT BEFORE ME, CUS THIS IS SO I DONT KNOW OFFENSIVE AS A TRANS PERSON READING THE CONTENT OF THIS ;
AND IF THIS IS WHAT CHICAGO IS ABOUT WELL I CAN SEE Y THINGS R BAD CUS UR BRINGING NEGATIVITY TOWARDS USELF; THE SO CALLED CHAOS THERE! AND FOR THE RECORD CROSS DRESSERS RNT REALLY TRANSGENDERED THEIR BEHAVIOR IS BUT NOT REALLY TRANS? SO U REALLY NEED TO GET UR FACTS STRAIGHT WHOEVER WROTE THIS ARTICLE; THEN END.
Whatever you liked to be called, you're not going to win any arguments typing like that, Miss.
FYI, the phrase "tranny storm" is not my own - this is what the organizers themselves are calling the event.
As chair of Illinois Gender Advocates, the all-inclusive official transgender partner organization to Equality Illinois, I must say the event referenced in this so-called "press release" by unknown parties is NOT endorsed or sanctioned by either of our groups.
This unfortunate matter, while admittedly inconvenient for some individuals, ha very low spot on the priority list for bona fide trans people.
It would be far more productive for those who claim membership in our delightfully diverse community to devote their time and energy to more essential issues such as equal employment opprtunities for trans-people (ENDA) and the reduction of anti-trans violence, such as the Day of Remembrance which happens in IL on Nov. 14.
Please consult www.genderadvocates.org for details.
tgcyndi, no one said it was your groups the disclaimer was unnecessary. And I'm sorry but "bona fide trans people"? lets not negate the history or the identities of people you don't know.
Shu Va, we take trans to be any member of the gender variant community. We cannot start a hierarchy of more trans that thou, union is the only was to press forward against discrimination.
On the whole, some people don't like the term tranny, the people who decided this was important were trying to thing of what to call it tranny storm got thrown out T-Storm for short. If you are offended I'm sorry but there is also something to be said about reclaiming offensive terms.
We just can't sit back and let people push us out, because fact is once one place get away with it, what is to stop others?
I would hope that a chair of the Illinois Gender Advocates would withhold the urge to:
1. speak for the entire delightfully diverse community or 2. dismiss the efforts of anyone fighting for justice in ways important to them.
We are not big enough as a community to shut each other down, and we need every person doing anything they can/ feel compelled to do.
I will be at that door at Hunters on Friday because I understand the importance of condemning ALL anti-trans behavior.
And I will fight for equal-employment rights because I believe that our living sustainably is as important to each of us personally as it is to propelling the entire movement.
And I will observe the Day of Remembrance in honor and gratitude of those who fought for to live beforehand.
What I will not do is allow any person or organization to dictate my priorities as a trans person, nor will I dismiss anyone along the spectrum of gender-alternative as "not part of my community."
We need each other. We are the only allies we have. So let's let Illinois Gender Advocates put their effort where they can and let others do the same.
WHO CARES about the title of this or what the proper term is? As valid as those arguments may be, they take away from the fact that discrimination like this happened. Importantly, the reaction to the 'profiling' has been brilliant. Hats off to the organizers of the protest. If we don't stand together in this, or at all, we will never gain the freedoms we seek. Remember, Stonewall gave us the right to even HAVE gay bars without police brutality. It was the transgendered men of the community who stood up and got us to the point where we have the audacity to ask for the freedom to marry or as in this case, the right to attire. I love it. Keep on the fight - till we have the freedoms equal to others, that is when we go to the arguments listed below. For now, put on the dress and those heels and get your ass to a fight, bitch!