Monday, February 14, 2011

Internalised Transphobia


We go on about how bad hate crime is... and how far spread it can be, but it's so quick to forget that it can be closer to home then you realise sometimes.

You can be a racist to someone of your own skin colour, you can pick on someone whos in a wheelchair and be in one yourself... and just as easy you can be transgender and be just as nasty to someone else who is transgender too...

Today i noticed in a forum a post operative trans woman indicating quite loudly that she was willing to out someone in public office who was trans too... and seemed to think it was ok, using the excuse of politics as some justifiable reason to do this... but lets take that out of the equation, she actually was thriving in the thought of doing it, and all we can hope is that she won't do so... but it shows that you can be cisphobic, transphobic, a racist or any kind of bigot to people that are on the same level as you, it goes across all boundaries and sadly shows the sad parts of humanity that we would like to get rid of... ignorance, fear and hatred...

We fight for equality for all, and still see people want to pull it all down by their own inadequacies

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