(Originally written and posted on my Facebook page on May
30, 2014)
Is RuPaul the New
Janice Raymond?
#RuPaulNewRaymond
Today's
Medicare victory affirms the women and men born with transsexualism who seek
needed healthcare and alignment in their lives, and overrules the
pro-misgendering and discriminatory campaign launched by openly lesbian Janice
Raymond.
Raymond obsessively
led the propaganda fueled misinformation war on girls and women born with
transsexualism aimed at misgendering us, exterminating our medically necessary
treatment and ultimately engineering sociocide against our already established
community.
Now RuPaul
and his primarily gay male followers have similarly pushed away compassion and
support of my sisters to instead ride the sexist tidal wave of dispensing
extremely anti-transsexual slurs and saying transphobic comments on platforms
which influence millions of people to condone the 'othering' and stigmatizing
of an already oppressed minority.
Raymond and
RuPaul have little in common in terms of personality, background or fashion
style, but they do have one dangerous thing in common: Both are openly gay
individuals who tricked others into thinking they were credible authority
figures to comment on issues that specifically effect females with transsexual
history and then misused their position to wage harm on our lives.
Both
publically have been documented in wide reaching media outlets as referring to
our women as "men in dresses".
Both
publically ridiculed and invalidated the need for the transsexual community's
transition-related healthcare.
Both loved
anti-trans slurs.
Both have
been promoted on non-trans media outlets as "experts” instead of the
uncompassionate and phobia-mongering brutes that they truly are.
Obviously
Raymond's crimes cost lives, but it could also be measured that inciting phobia
and dehumanizing an already oppressed minority group has grave consequences if
done on a massive scale, such as media defamation.
So while we
celebrate today's victory against the closure of Raymond's concentration camp,
let's learn from the past and strategize on how to counteract the forces who
want to normalize dehumanizing and misgendering defamation in the media.
#RuPaulNewRaymond
