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Online Petition Says Gay and Transgender Communities Should Go Their Separate Ways 2 NOVEMBER 12, 2015 METROWEEKLY.COM METROWEEKLY.COM NOVEMBER 12, 2015 3 EDITORIAL EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Randy Shulman NOVEMBER 12, 2015 ART DIRECTOR Volume 22 / Issue 28 Todd Franson MANAGING EDITOR Rhuaridh Marr NEWS 6 No Time for “T” SENIOR EDITOR by John Riley John Riley CONTRIBUTING EDITOR 8 A ShoT To The Arm Doug Rule by John Riley SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHERS 10 uNdrAiSiNg for rieNdS Ward Morrison, Julian Vankim f “f ” by John Riley CONTRIBUTING ILLUSTRATOR Scott G. Brooks 11 CommuNiTy CAleNdAr CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Gordon Ashenhurst, Sean Bugg, Connor J. Hogan, Troy Petenbrink, Kate Wingfield FEATURES 16 JonathAN BArdzik WEBMASTER Interview by Doug Rule David Uy photography by Todd Franson PRODUCTION ASSISTANT 22 Bianca del rio Julian Vankim Interview by Connor J. 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Publication of the name or photograph of any person or organization in articles or advertising in Metro Weekly is not to be construed as any indication of the sexual orientation of such person or organization. © 2015 Jansi LLC. 4 NOVEMBER 12, 2015 METROWEEKLY.COM METROWEEKLY.COM NOVEMBER 12, 2015 5 Now online at MetroWeekly.com Gay app Hornet erects billboard outside GOP debate NewsLGBT Rockville clergy counter Westboro’s “message of hate” WEEKLY METRO No Time for “T” Online petition says gay and transgender communities should go their separate ways by John Riley E FEEL THAT THE TRANSGENDER IDE- rently covered by the umbrella term LGBT. The petition sug- ology is not compatible with the rights of gests that the LGB community and the transgender community, women, gay men and children,” reads a con- allies in various fights ranging from marriage equality to work- troversial petition posted on change.org. “In place nondiscrimination legislation, go their separate ways to Wessence, we ask that organizations...stop representing the trans- promote their own agendas. gender community as we feel their ideology is not only com- The “Drop the T” petition is a laundry list of grievances pletely different from that promoted by the LGB community, against the transgender community, including allegations of but is ultimately regressive and actually hostile to the goals of harassment and verbal or physical intimidation of LGB peo- gay women and men.” ple at the hands of transgender activists, the usurpation and As of noon on Tuesday, the petition had gathered 1,674 sig- appropriation of the history of the gay rights movement, and natures from purportedly gay, lesbian and bisexual individuals infringement upon private spaces, restrooms or other changing who wish to separate themselves from transgender, non-binary, facilities, particularly those reserved for biological women, by and gender nonconforming individuals, all of whom are cur- transgender women. It also claims that the transgender com- 6 NOVEMBER 12, 2015 METROWEEKLY.COM METROWEEKLY.COM NOVEMBER 12, 2015 7 LGBTNews munity has asserted undue influence over parents and health you use terms like ‘gender expression’ and ‘sex stereotypes,’ professionals in order to diagnose children as transgender at an as the Supreme Court has used, you don’t have to deal with early age. different groups,” says Beyer. “You don’t have to ask, ‘Are gen- The major LGBT organizations named in the petition — derqueer dudes covered by this?’ Everybody’s covered by it. It Lambda Legal, the Human Rights Campaign, and GLAAD — doesn’t matter what the variation is today, or will be 50 years quickly responded by denouncing the petition’s intent, arguing from now. It’s the concept. It’s the classification that matters. So that it does not behoove the movement to drive a wedge among we don’t have to have all the infighting. the various groups that comprise the community. And an even “I think for most people in the movement, the key factor has larger number of people — 3,674 as of noon on Tuesday — have been that, at the end of the day, we are all hated because we are signed a counter-petition affirming the importance of keeping all different,” she adds. “We’re not the mainstream, cisgender, the LGBT community intact. heteronormative culture. We were all originally hated, or now The author of the petition, using the pseudonym “Clayton,” are just making people uncomfortable, the ick factor, and all gave an interview to the right-wing website The Federalist in that. We are all at risk because of that dichotomy.... That’s why which he asserts that many LGB people feel similarly about we fought to become part of the overarching gay community to being grouped together with transgender activists, but are make it LGBT and why we are where we are and have made the afraid to speak out. progress we’ve made today.” “I think this is an absolutely important distinction that has Richard J. Rosendall, the president of the Gay and Lesbian not been discussed at all,” Clayton said. “Gay/bisexual men and Activists Alliance (GLAA) of Washington, says that the quick women just ARE — we don’t need medicine or surgery to help response from the organizations who rejected the petition’s us become who we believe we are, which is the case with the premise made it clear that the request to sever ties between the trans community. LGB and transgender communities was “dead on arrival.” “To take it further, the first is about sexual and affectional “Our community is diverse. It always has been,” says orientation, who we are sexually attracted to and who we Rosendall. “In recent years, many of us have been trying to do choose to share our love with. The latter is about gender iden- better to reflect and embrace and respect the diversity of the tity, and altering one’s body to fit what one’s mind believes it community. And recognizing the importance of coalition work should resemble. They are two very, very different ideas, and that goes beyond our own community in order to advance a the problem that develops when we are all under the same common interest of various at-risk groups.” umbrella is that so many of our enemies see us as one and the Rosendall says the author’s unwillingness to share his iden- same.” tity seems to suggest cowardice, adding that those who have Transgender activist Dana Beyer says Clayton’s assertions signed the petition are speaking only for themselves, and not for are “misinformed,” adding “I have not read crap like that in a the larger equality movement. But beyond its offensive asser- long time, all in one place.” tions, he says, the LGB community really doesn’t have the ability Says Beyer, “There’s a bigger story here, about what happens to “drop the T,” as their fates are closely linked. when small groups of activists, amplified by social media, do “For gay folks to support dropping the T would be like the things that are really outrageous, that then get picked up — and turkey inviting the cook to lunch,” Rosendall says. “It would be others, who are looking to stir up fights, use that to represent suicidal. Our opponents are not going to be fooled. They will the community at large. And that’s what the case with this is.” continue to lump us all together because they consider all of us Beyer said that there are some in the LGB community who a threat to what they believe are proper gender norms. mistakenly believe the transgender community is somehow “That reality of diversity needs to be asserted and defended “ruining” the progress that could be made on the equality front. because our opponents want to pretend that everybody in the “I almost felt like it was 2007 and ENDA all over again, with country looks like them, loves like them, believes like them and some of the nonsense,” she adds. “We’re not going back there. thinks like them. And they want to make the rest of us effec- This is so absurd because it’s such a throwback to those days. tively disappear or disenfranchise us. It would be the politics And then the TERFs [trans-exclusionary radical feminists] jump of subtraction for us to consider dropping any of us, and that on board, and now we’re back at our arguments with NCLR and simply is not going to happen.” l the Task Force and the rest about the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival from last year. It’s so petty and childish.
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