Terrorist.
ter·ror·ist [TEAR-er-ist] noun
1. a person, usually a member of a group, who uses or advocates terrorism.
2. a person who terrorizes or frightens others.
Terrorism.
ter·ror·ism [TEAR-uh-riz-uhm] noun
1. the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes.
2. the state of fear and submission produced by terrorism or terrorization.
Terrorize.
ter·ror·ize [TEAR-er-rise] verb (used with object, ter·ror·ized, ter·ror·iz·ing.)
1. to fill or overcome with terror.
2. to dominate or coerce by intimidation.
Read these definitions. And then read these quotes. (Source; TERF Quotes)
TERF Activist and blooger Bev Jo: "They expect we’ll be shocked to see statistics about them being killed, and don’t realize, some of us wish they would ALL be dead."
TERF Blogger Luckynkl: "The male-born are biologically incomplete mutants, useless and obsolete; walking viruses on two legs and a cancer, spreading disease, death and destruction wherever they go. They are the walking-dead and the antithesis to life. Gyn-energy sucking vampires who have to plug into women and feed on them in order to survive. No different than a parasite who sucks the life and energy out of its host."
TERF Blogger Bonobabe: "Personally, I think we should do away with circumcision and replace it with castration."
TERF Blogger WhiteTiger: "If we’re going that road, why not just cull boy babies for awhile? Re-establish a sane balance. Then we can start selective breeding programs for donor males…" [To cull means to reduce the population of by selective slaughter.]
TERF Blogger JourneyMistress: "It might be well and good to “educate” them [males] but that seems to take decades. Only if you are dedicated to educating the Terminally Stupid should you embark on this…Detachment is the key to emotional survival in a world plagued by males. Otherwise you really do just want to shoot them on sight."
I'd paste more from TERFQuotes but I'm already nauseous just from those. If you have the stomach, click the link for more.
Other examples of TERF terrorism include fallout from having a conference cancelled in London once the venue owners realized the message the TERFs were promoting.
On that page you'll see TERF leader Cathy "Bug" Brennan engage in blatant terrorist tactics by trying to incite fear against trans women, ally men and women, and generally ANYONE contradicting her, including calling trans women "all men", and calling an enlightened young man a "rapist" for "violating her boundaries" by simply replying to her PUBLICLY POSTED HATE TWEETS.
Here, from Rational Wiki, is a collection of examples of Cathy Brennan's terrorist campaigns against Trans Women.
One example from that page; "The Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) is the ex-gay organization that stirred up the right wing world by claiming that a trans kid (whom we will refer to as Jane Doe, for reasons of privacy) in Colorado was harassing cisgender girls in the restrooms. Right wing media outlets jumped at the story without conducting any fact-checking, prompting members of the right wing community to call for the death of the trans kid. Cathy Brennan's Gender Identity Watch site jumped in to help the PJI attack the trans teen. The Pacific Justice Institute claims that "a male student, NAME CENSORED, who claims to be transgender, has allegedly harassed female students in the girls room at Florence High School." Even after Brennan learned that the teen was on suicide watch, she has left the teen's real name on her blog as well as updating it recently."
Here, Bitch Media examines the harm and hypocrisy of Brennan's tactics.
I could go on, but I think I've made my point.
One doesn't need to Strap on a bomb vest or fly a plane into a building to be a terrorist. One only needs to actively engage in campaigns of fearmongering to knowingly and intentionally incite a higher risk of violence against your chosen target. Like a KKK Grand Wizard never had to dirty his own hands with the blood of black folks because he incited other more gullible people into such fear and rage that they'd go do it for him, Brennan and her TERFs, however few they are, are doing that exact very thing; Appealing to the fears of gullible people with the intentional and malicious goal of getting trans women hurt or even murdered, while smugly believing their own hands are clean.
Now go back up to the top of the page, and reread those definitions.
And then tell me Brennan and her TERFs are not Terrorists in the purist definition of the word.
Click here to sign a petition to have Brennan's group Gender Identity Watch classified officially as a hate group.
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10/14/2011
Careless Fraud Friday
Today I got a thank you from a known anti-gay bigot fruitloop in my e-mail. Strange that. Being thanked for shit I didn't do. This shit is WAY too funny, there was no way humanly possible I could NOT share this.
Quick Background first; Every week, Eugene Delgaudio, a small-time not-even-a-blip-on-the-radar anti-gay activist, sends a mass e-mail to anyone on his mailing list pleading for money to help him, as the self-appointed "Public Advocate of the United States", stop the evil homosexual lobby from passing things like "The Homosexual Classrooms Act". Yeah I know, I never heard of it either. He does this by telling bizarre,m weird, ridiculous fairytales designed to scare little old ladies into sending him their grocery money. Tales where he is the poor beleaguered hero whose life is constantly in danger because of evil violent gay men. According to him, he's narrowly escaped a warehouse full of earring sporting ponytail wearing mustachiod faggots and been beaned with a giant rock in his own home. It's like an old 30's serial, we tune in every week on Joe.My.God's blog to see the next exciting chapter!
So last week I clicked the link from Joe's to Eugene's website because Canada was mentioned. I looked at some of his fucked-up ramblings, laughed at his clear insanity, and left the website. And that is ALL I did. I didn't fill out ANY forms of ANY kind or click on anything about signing up for anything.
So imagine my shock when THIS just arrived in my inbox...
(Warning, this DEFINITELY will fall into tl;dr territory. The man is NOTHING if not longwinded.)
Dear Penny,
Um, how do you know my name? Do you moonlight as The Great Zucchini at the local fairgrounds?
Thank you for your recently signed petition. I am excited to know you are an American who is willing to take a stand for pro-family values.
The last petition I signed was to ask CNN to stop bringing folks like you on as "Conservative experts".
Here at Public Advocate, fighting for and defending the family values our nation was founded on is what we are all about.
Wasn't one of those values separation of Church and State?
If you are looking for a hard-hitting pro-family organization with a history of victories against the growing radical Homosexual Lobby, look no further than Public Advocate of the United States.
His victories are as imaginary as the Bills he's fighting against. And the 70's gay pornstars he fantasizes about getting beaten up by.
Founded in 1981, Public Advocate quickly took center stage as the nation’s leading family advocate with over 400,000 united pro-family activists.
His math sucks. He and his wife don't equal 400K. Unless he just repeats their names with different spellings ad nauseum on the staff page..
Time after time, Public Advocate has beaten back the attempts of the Homosexual Lobby to pass legislation aimed at making homosexuals a special class of citizens.
The only thing he's ever beaten back was his medication.
But, victories these days have been harder and harder to come by.
Hard to dwindle something you never had any of to begin with.
Which is why I so excited to have your signed petition!
I didn't sign a damned thing for you and I'll sue you into oblivion if my name appears on any of your crap.
With it, I will prove to Congress that the American people still hold traditional family values dear.
By commandeering the signature of a fat paegan hermaphrodite lesbian? Yeah let me know how that works out for you.
And if you believe the threat of the Homosexual Lobby is being blown out of proportion, think again.
The Religious Right? Blowing homosexuality out of proportion? THE HELL YOU SAY???
At this very moment, individuals and organizations with hundreds of millions of dollars that comprise the Homosexual Lobby are working to pass their radical agenda.
Ha, I WISH! We could afford nationwide TV spots to make fun of NOM.
Here are just a few names and organizations you may recognize: Tim Gill, Barney Frank, Pat Stryker, Jared Polis, Cindy and Meghan McCain, The Advocate, GLAAD, and the Human Rights Campaign.
All decent hardworking people. Well, except McCain's daughters. They just want to give Daddy a heart attack.
All of these people are working towards what they call “equal rights” for homosexuals, when in reality, the rights they are trying to acquire would be unique to homosexuals only.
So.... if we get the right to marry, somehow NO ONE ELSE will be allowed to? Hetero spouses will be kicked out of a dying spouses' hospital room? Straight white men will be routinely denied employment for being blonde and blue-eyed?
A Thought Control bill was just recently passed. This bill puts into law regulations that deem so-called “hate speech” as illegal.
I never heard of any such bill being pa.... ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD!!!
This has me worried, and I hope you are too. Because who is to say what language will be considered hate speech?
Pretty much anyone being advocated into jail or out of the country or just outright murdered for simply existing? That might be a start.
Don’t believe me? In Canada and Europe pastors have been thrown in jail for preaching Biblical teachings against homosexuality.
Nope. Not a one. Ever. I live here, trust me, if it had happened the National Post would be all OVER that shit. Conrad Black hates him some gay folks.
This very well may be the reality of Thought Control in the United States.
But I thought Pink Floyd was a British band?
I hope you know how serious this issue really is.
About as serious as your headwound from the giant rock you somehow survived being brained with?
Which is why, as President of Public Advocate, I have devoted my life to protecting family values and defending our freedoms.
By denigrating families that scare you and fighting to rob them of their freedoms. Seems counterproductive to me.
I want to leave a legacy I am proud of, knowing the United States is still the nation I grew up in.
No dear, that was Leave It To Beaver you're remembering. The USA was never ACTUALLY like that.
But without your support, this year alone we could see Barney Frank’s so-called “Employment Non-Discrimination Act” put into law.
*sighs* Only if they throw trans folk under the bus. And even then it's a stretch with this many republicans in congress.
We call this the “Gay Bill of Special Rights” because it doesn’t eliminate discrimination, it destroys workplace protection from radical homosexuals whose only mission is to spread their agenda.
You losing the right to be a dick at the office is not discrimination dear.
If passed, the Gay Bill of Special Rights would require workplaces to meet a quota of homosexual employees, forcing employers to choose a radical homosexual over a potentially more qualified candidate.
Good thing the gay folks are likely just as qualified. Because we're the same as anyone else that way.
And no workplace will be exempt. Churches, daycares, nursing homes, private schools, you name it, all will have to adhere to these regulations.
Only if they're taking government money. If you're taking government funding, you obey the law. If you want to discrimiate, do it on your own dime. It's not rocket science.
And Obama is even looking to push for the repeal of "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell" this year, which would remove the protection our soldiers have from the Homosexual Lobby.
Aww, typing up all the thinly veiled gay erotica he sends out must have distracted him from watching the news of late, DADT has gone the way of the DoDo and Donald Trump's original hair.
And even the Healthcare bill is filled with numerous paybacks to homosexuals, giving lower healthcare premiums to “unmarried” homosexuals than married couples, all paid for at taxpayer expense.
Nah. Obama doesn't like gays THAT much.
I hope you understand this threat is real. . . and imminent.
About as real and imminent as the scary gay man supposedly camped out in your son's treehouse waiting to beat you up?
And I also hope you will consider making a donation to Public Advocate to help protect our family values.
Oh sure, let me go check my Swiss Bank account and get right on that.
Public Advocate will never waver from the firm conviction that political decisions should begin and end with the best interests of American families and communities in mind, and that marriage is a sacred union between one man and one woman.
You know, except when it's between one man and three women he bought from a farmer, or one rapist and his victim after he pays her father for damage to his property, all neatly found in that Bible you've clearly never actually read through.
Public Advocate has been 100% dependent on the financial support of contributors, we do not receive any government or taxpayer money, nor do we want it.
Because money that otherwise would have bought groceries and heating for some little old lady he terrified with bullshit is SO much sweeter.
I would appreciate it if you could help support Public Advocate by making a charitable contribution, please click here.
And I would appreciate it if you'd stick your penis in battery acid to insure you stay out of the gene pool but we can't always get what we want.
No matter the amount, be it $5 or $50 or more, every dollar you give is greatly appreciated and will go a long way towards defending our pro-family values.
As long as that family resembles the Cleavers. Any other configuration can go fuck themselves.
It is my hope to keep you up-to-date on the fight for pro-family values through email alerts.
Oh please do! I can supply my friends with material for the rest of my natural life!
There are some tough battles coming up very soon and I am going to need your help if we are to win.
Sure! I'd LOVE to help you denigrate my marriage and my loving relationship! Where do I sign up! Oh right, the phishing software hidden on your website beat me to it. Darn!
Thank you for your support.
Thank you for giving me clear evidence of computer fraud to forward to the FBI!
Sincerely,
Eugene Delgaudio
President,
Public Advocate of the U.S.
I officially declare myself president of the Fetlife Advocate Of Breast Gropings. W#ow that was easy! Now to terrify someone into giving me their lunch money.
P.S. Public Advocate is the leading force in defending the conservative pro-family values our nation was founded on.
And for over 50 years the World Wrestling Federation was the leading force in Sports Entertainment!
Please consider a donation to Public Advocate to help defend our pro-family values from the Homosexual Lobby's attacks.
I might if you WERE pro-family instead of pro-stealing my money.
Because Public Advocate of the U.S. lobbies to fight the radical agenda of the Homosexual Lobby, contributions are not tax deductible for IRS purposes. This email was not produced or e-mailed at taxpayer expense. Public Advocate's website is http://notgoingtolethimphishanyofyou.fucknugget
Awww, too bad for you then. I only donate to hateful bigots if I can declare it on my 502.
To help Public Advocate grow, please forward this to a friend.
I am, but I don't think you'll like the friends I'm showing this to you, they're all way smarter than you and have awesome built-in natural bullshit detectors.
Funny thing is, I visited his site near a week ago, but the e-mail said I was only added to his list today. Also, shock and awe, any attempt to reply to his spam gets a mailer-daemon error. Guess he doesn't like people calling him on his shit?
Quick Background first; Every week, Eugene Delgaudio, a small-time not-even-a-blip-on-the-radar anti-gay activist, sends a mass e-mail to anyone on his mailing list pleading for money to help him, as the self-appointed "Public Advocate of the United States", stop the evil homosexual lobby from passing things like "The Homosexual Classrooms Act". Yeah I know, I never heard of it either. He does this by telling bizarre,m weird, ridiculous fairytales designed to scare little old ladies into sending him their grocery money. Tales where he is the poor beleaguered hero whose life is constantly in danger because of evil violent gay men. According to him, he's narrowly escaped a warehouse full of earring sporting ponytail wearing mustachiod faggots and been beaned with a giant rock in his own home. It's like an old 30's serial, we tune in every week on Joe.My.God's blog to see the next exciting chapter!
So last week I clicked the link from Joe's to Eugene's website because Canada was mentioned. I looked at some of his fucked-up ramblings, laughed at his clear insanity, and left the website. And that is ALL I did. I didn't fill out ANY forms of ANY kind or click on anything about signing up for anything.
So imagine my shock when THIS just arrived in my inbox...
(Warning, this DEFINITELY will fall into tl;dr territory. The man is NOTHING if not longwinded.)
Dear Penny,
Um, how do you know my name? Do you moonlight as The Great Zucchini at the local fairgrounds?
Thank you for your recently signed petition. I am excited to know you are an American who is willing to take a stand for pro-family values.
The last petition I signed was to ask CNN to stop bringing folks like you on as "Conservative experts".
Here at Public Advocate, fighting for and defending the family values our nation was founded on is what we are all about.
Wasn't one of those values separation of Church and State?
If you are looking for a hard-hitting pro-family organization with a history of victories against the growing radical Homosexual Lobby, look no further than Public Advocate of the United States.
His victories are as imaginary as the Bills he's fighting against. And the 70's gay pornstars he fantasizes about getting beaten up by.
Founded in 1981, Public Advocate quickly took center stage as the nation’s leading family advocate with over 400,000 united pro-family activists.
His math sucks. He and his wife don't equal 400K. Unless he just repeats their names with different spellings ad nauseum on the staff page..
Time after time, Public Advocate has beaten back the attempts of the Homosexual Lobby to pass legislation aimed at making homosexuals a special class of citizens.
The only thing he's ever beaten back was his medication.
But, victories these days have been harder and harder to come by.
Hard to dwindle something you never had any of to begin with.
Which is why I so excited to have your signed petition!
I didn't sign a damned thing for you and I'll sue you into oblivion if my name appears on any of your crap.
With it, I will prove to Congress that the American people still hold traditional family values dear.
By commandeering the signature of a fat paegan hermaphrodite lesbian? Yeah let me know how that works out for you.
And if you believe the threat of the Homosexual Lobby is being blown out of proportion, think again.
The Religious Right? Blowing homosexuality out of proportion? THE HELL YOU SAY???
At this very moment, individuals and organizations with hundreds of millions of dollars that comprise the Homosexual Lobby are working to pass their radical agenda.
Ha, I WISH! We could afford nationwide TV spots to make fun of NOM.
Here are just a few names and organizations you may recognize: Tim Gill, Barney Frank, Pat Stryker, Jared Polis, Cindy and Meghan McCain, The Advocate, GLAAD, and the Human Rights Campaign.
All decent hardworking people. Well, except McCain's daughters. They just want to give Daddy a heart attack.
All of these people are working towards what they call “equal rights” for homosexuals, when in reality, the rights they are trying to acquire would be unique to homosexuals only.
So.... if we get the right to marry, somehow NO ONE ELSE will be allowed to? Hetero spouses will be kicked out of a dying spouses' hospital room? Straight white men will be routinely denied employment for being blonde and blue-eyed?
A Thought Control bill was just recently passed. This bill puts into law regulations that deem so-called “hate speech” as illegal.
I never heard of any such bill being pa.... ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD!!!
This has me worried, and I hope you are too. Because who is to say what language will be considered hate speech?
Pretty much anyone being advocated into jail or out of the country or just outright murdered for simply existing? That might be a start.
Don’t believe me? In Canada and Europe pastors have been thrown in jail for preaching Biblical teachings against homosexuality.
Nope. Not a one. Ever. I live here, trust me, if it had happened the National Post would be all OVER that shit. Conrad Black hates him some gay folks.
This very well may be the reality of Thought Control in the United States.
But I thought Pink Floyd was a British band?
I hope you know how serious this issue really is.
About as serious as your headwound from the giant rock you somehow survived being brained with?
Which is why, as President of Public Advocate, I have devoted my life to protecting family values and defending our freedoms.
By denigrating families that scare you and fighting to rob them of their freedoms. Seems counterproductive to me.
I want to leave a legacy I am proud of, knowing the United States is still the nation I grew up in.
No dear, that was Leave It To Beaver you're remembering. The USA was never ACTUALLY like that.
But without your support, this year alone we could see Barney Frank’s so-called “Employment Non-Discrimination Act” put into law.
*sighs* Only if they throw trans folk under the bus. And even then it's a stretch with this many republicans in congress.
We call this the “Gay Bill of Special Rights” because it doesn’t eliminate discrimination, it destroys workplace protection from radical homosexuals whose only mission is to spread their agenda.
You losing the right to be a dick at the office is not discrimination dear.
If passed, the Gay Bill of Special Rights would require workplaces to meet a quota of homosexual employees, forcing employers to choose a radical homosexual over a potentially more qualified candidate.
Good thing the gay folks are likely just as qualified. Because we're the same as anyone else that way.
And no workplace will be exempt. Churches, daycares, nursing homes, private schools, you name it, all will have to adhere to these regulations.
Only if they're taking government money. If you're taking government funding, you obey the law. If you want to discrimiate, do it on your own dime. It's not rocket science.
And Obama is even looking to push for the repeal of "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell" this year, which would remove the protection our soldiers have from the Homosexual Lobby.
Aww, typing up all the thinly veiled gay erotica he sends out must have distracted him from watching the news of late, DADT has gone the way of the DoDo and Donald Trump's original hair.
And even the Healthcare bill is filled with numerous paybacks to homosexuals, giving lower healthcare premiums to “unmarried” homosexuals than married couples, all paid for at taxpayer expense.
Nah. Obama doesn't like gays THAT much.
I hope you understand this threat is real. . . and imminent.
About as real and imminent as the scary gay man supposedly camped out in your son's treehouse waiting to beat you up?
And I also hope you will consider making a donation to Public Advocate to help protect our family values.
Oh sure, let me go check my Swiss Bank account and get right on that.
Public Advocate will never waver from the firm conviction that political decisions should begin and end with the best interests of American families and communities in mind, and that marriage is a sacred union between one man and one woman.
You know, except when it's between one man and three women he bought from a farmer, or one rapist and his victim after he pays her father for damage to his property, all neatly found in that Bible you've clearly never actually read through.
Public Advocate has been 100% dependent on the financial support of contributors, we do not receive any government or taxpayer money, nor do we want it.
Because money that otherwise would have bought groceries and heating for some little old lady he terrified with bullshit is SO much sweeter.
I would appreciate it if you could help support Public Advocate by making a charitable contribution, please click here.
And I would appreciate it if you'd stick your penis in battery acid to insure you stay out of the gene pool but we can't always get what we want.
No matter the amount, be it $5 or $50 or more, every dollar you give is greatly appreciated and will go a long way towards defending our pro-family values.
As long as that family resembles the Cleavers. Any other configuration can go fuck themselves.
It is my hope to keep you up-to-date on the fight for pro-family values through email alerts.
Oh please do! I can supply my friends with material for the rest of my natural life!
There are some tough battles coming up very soon and I am going to need your help if we are to win.
Sure! I'd LOVE to help you denigrate my marriage and my loving relationship! Where do I sign up! Oh right, the phishing software hidden on your website beat me to it. Darn!
Thank you for your support.
Thank you for giving me clear evidence of computer fraud to forward to the FBI!
Sincerely,
Eugene Delgaudio
President,
Public Advocate of the U.S.
I officially declare myself president of the Fetlife Advocate Of Breast Gropings. W#ow that was easy! Now to terrify someone into giving me their lunch money.
P.S. Public Advocate is the leading force in defending the conservative pro-family values our nation was founded on.
And for over 50 years the World Wrestling Federation was the leading force in Sports Entertainment!
Please consider a donation to Public Advocate to help defend our pro-family values from the Homosexual Lobby's attacks.
I might if you WERE pro-family instead of pro-stealing my money.
Because Public Advocate of the U.S. lobbies to fight the radical agenda of the Homosexual Lobby, contributions are not tax deductible for IRS purposes. This email was not produced or e-mailed at taxpayer expense. Public Advocate's website is http://notgoingtolethimphishanyofyou.fucknugget
Awww, too bad for you then. I only donate to hateful bigots if I can declare it on my 502.
To help Public Advocate grow, please forward this to a friend.
I am, but I don't think you'll like the friends I'm showing this to you, they're all way smarter than you and have awesome built-in natural bullshit detectors.
Funny thing is, I visited his site near a week ago, but the e-mail said I was only added to his list today. Also, shock and awe, any attempt to reply to his spam gets a mailer-daemon error. Guess he doesn't like people calling him on his shit?
11/26/2010
My Letter to my Member Of Parliament About Bill C-389
Crossposted on Pam's House Blend
(I have just sent this to my district's Member of Parliament, Sukh Dhaliwal. I encourage all my fellow Canadians to do the same with their local MP's. As Mercedes on Pam's said, you can find the contact info for your local MP by typing in your Postal Code here.)
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As a member of your constituency here in Surrey, a voter, and a member of the trans community, I implore you to vote to pass Bill C-389. This bill, despite the lies and fearmongering that members of the religious right are engaging in, is not going to let "men put on dresses so they can rape women in bathrooms and claim they're really trans women". That is utterly reprehensible fearmongering invented by religious bigots who distort faith to justify inequality. What it will do is provide protection and dignity to a very beleaguered class. As you are a person of color, I KNOW you understand how bigotry for something you cannot change, in your case race, feels when the ignorant paint you with assumptions and broadstrokes. Trans women cannot change who they are. They do not go into bathrooms to harass women. We go into bathrooms to use the bathroom, same as everyone else. And Crossdressers are NOT trans women and do not use opposite sex bathrooms. Predators who would harm women tend to be very sexist insecure men, and are EXTREMELY unlikely to sacrifice their masculinity by dressing as women just to access women's spaces.
I was arrested and spent a night in jail this past January in PoCo because a security guard decided I didn't look womanly enough, called me a perverted faggot, and called the police. I was violently raped in juvey as a teenager and the entire night in jail I was wracked by flashbacks. The incident, despite being sorted out the next day when I showed the judge the F on my BCID, left me traumatized and afraid to so much as pee when out in public for months. I gave myself a goddamned kidney stone from holding my bladder til I got home rather than just use a restroom. The passage of Bill C-389 would ensure that women like me who are guilty of absolutely nothing except being born with our brains wired differently, (and yes, science HAS proven that MTF Transsexuals do in fact have the biological brain construction of a natal female), from having to risk this kind of humiliation at the hansds of bullies and bigots who mock and ridicule us just for having the courage to be ourselves.
Last weekend was the Transgender Day of Remembrance, an annual day to remember trans women murdered the world over every year. Google Angie Zapata for an example of what women like me risk happening to us every single time we leave the house because we aren't protected under the law.
Imagine if your son or daughter came to you and told you this was who they really were, knowing the danger they will face just by being honest about that. And then remember that all of us, every trans woman, we too are someone's child. And like you, your family, like everyone else, we have the right to be protected by law, and to live with dignity, and to be free from bigotry and harassment just for being who we are.
I am asking you, not as a voter, or a trans woman, but simply as a human being.
Do the right thing. Ignore the fearmongering of religious bigots who bastardize their own faith to make excuses for hatred.
Vote yes on Bill C-389.
Thank you.
Penny Sautereau-Fife, Surrey BC.
(I have just sent this to my district's Member of Parliament, Sukh Dhaliwal. I encourage all my fellow Canadians to do the same with their local MP's. As Mercedes on Pam's said, you can find the contact info for your local MP by typing in your Postal Code here.)
******************************************
As a member of your constituency here in Surrey, a voter, and a member of the trans community, I implore you to vote to pass Bill C-389. This bill, despite the lies and fearmongering that members of the religious right are engaging in, is not going to let "men put on dresses so they can rape women in bathrooms and claim they're really trans women". That is utterly reprehensible fearmongering invented by religious bigots who distort faith to justify inequality. What it will do is provide protection and dignity to a very beleaguered class. As you are a person of color, I KNOW you understand how bigotry for something you cannot change, in your case race, feels when the ignorant paint you with assumptions and broadstrokes. Trans women cannot change who they are. They do not go into bathrooms to harass women. We go into bathrooms to use the bathroom, same as everyone else. And Crossdressers are NOT trans women and do not use opposite sex bathrooms. Predators who would harm women tend to be very sexist insecure men, and are EXTREMELY unlikely to sacrifice their masculinity by dressing as women just to access women's spaces.
I was arrested and spent a night in jail this past January in PoCo because a security guard decided I didn't look womanly enough, called me a perverted faggot, and called the police. I was violently raped in juvey as a teenager and the entire night in jail I was wracked by flashbacks. The incident, despite being sorted out the next day when I showed the judge the F on my BCID, left me traumatized and afraid to so much as pee when out in public for months. I gave myself a goddamned kidney stone from holding my bladder til I got home rather than just use a restroom. The passage of Bill C-389 would ensure that women like me who are guilty of absolutely nothing except being born with our brains wired differently, (and yes, science HAS proven that MTF Transsexuals do in fact have the biological brain construction of a natal female), from having to risk this kind of humiliation at the hansds of bullies and bigots who mock and ridicule us just for having the courage to be ourselves.
Last weekend was the Transgender Day of Remembrance, an annual day to remember trans women murdered the world over every year. Google Angie Zapata for an example of what women like me risk happening to us every single time we leave the house because we aren't protected under the law.
Imagine if your son or daughter came to you and told you this was who they really were, knowing the danger they will face just by being honest about that. And then remember that all of us, every trans woman, we too are someone's child. And like you, your family, like everyone else, we have the right to be protected by law, and to live with dignity, and to be free from bigotry and harassment just for being who we are.
I am asking you, not as a voter, or a trans woman, but simply as a human being.
Do the right thing. Ignore the fearmongering of religious bigots who bastardize their own faith to make excuses for hatred.
Vote yes on Bill C-389.
Thank you.
Penny Sautereau-Fife, Surrey BC.
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