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Lisa
January 1st, 2012 12:10 am


cool kids need not apply. )
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Lisa
December 19th, 2009 02:38 pm


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Lisa
December 17th, 2009 09:20 pm



Let me begin by expressing my warmest gratitude to the Permanent Missions to the United Nations of Argentina, Brazil, Croatia, France, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden, and to the coalition of non-government organizations defending the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. Thank you for making this event possible and for giving us this opportunity to contribute our voices to this ongoing conversation for change. Our esteemed participants, beautiful beings, and profound expressions of this Universe, a warm, vibrant, and dignified afternoon to each and every one of you!

Burned at stake. Strangled and hanged. Raped and shot and stabbed to death. Throats slashed. Left to bleed to death. These are just some of the ways transgender people were killed in different parts of the world, in different times in the history of humanity. These are just the tip, the violent tip, of the iceberg of our suffering. I can go on and on, reciting a litany of indignity upon indignity, but my time is not enough to name all the acts of atrocious cruelty that transgender people experience. But what is the point of counting the dead bodies of our fellow human beings, of narrating how we suffer, and of opposing violence against us if we don’t challenge the root of our oppression?

The sincerity of our intention to address the human rights violations against transgender people rests upon the depth of our appreciation of human diversity and the breadth of our understanding of why transgender people suffer these indignities.

The root of our oppression is the belief that there is only one and only one way to be male or female. And this starts from our birth. Upon a quick look on our genitals, we are assigned into either male or female. This declaration is more than just a statement of what’s between our legs. It is a prescription of how we should and must live our lives. It is a dictation of what we should think about ourselves, the roles we should play, the clothes we should wear, the way we should move, and the people with whom we should have romantic or erotic relationships. But the existence of people whose identities, bodies, and experiences do not conform to gender norms is a proof that this belief is wrong.

Nonetheless, even though the truth of human diversity is so evident and clear to us, we choose to hang on to our current beliefs about gender, a belief that rejects reality and forces people to live a lie. This is the belief that leads to attacks on our physical and mental integrity, to different forms of discrimination against us, and to our social marginalization. This is the belief that led to Joan of Arc to be burned at stake because she was cross-dressing. This is the belief that motivated the rape and murder of Brandon Teena on December 31, 1993. This is the belief that led to the stabbing to death of Ebru Soykan, a prominent transgender human rights activist in Turkey, on March 10, 2009. This is the belief that led to the arrest of 67 Filipino workers in Saudi Arabia for cross-dressing in June this year. This is the belief that keeps the list of transgender people being harassed, killed, and violated growing year after year. And it is very unfortunate that our legal systems, religions, and cultures are being used to justify, glorify, and sanctify the violent expressions of this belief.

So we question: Is human life less precious than this belief? Is our right to life, to dignified existence, to liberty, and pursuit of happiness subservient to gender norms? This doesn’t need a complicated answer. You want to be born, to live, and die with dignity – so do we! You want the freedom to express the uniqueness of the life force within you – so do we! You want to live with authenticity – so do we!

Now is the time that we realize that diversity does not diminish our humanity; that respecting diversity does not make us less human; that understanding and accepting our differences do not make us cruel. And in fact, history has shown us that denying and rejecting human variability is the one that has lead us to inflict indignity upon indignity towards each other.

We are human beings of transgender experience. We are your children, your partners, your friends, your siblings, your students, your teachers, your workers, your citizens.

Let our lives delight in the same freedom of expression that you enjoy as you manifest to the outside world your unique and graceful selves.

Let us live together in the fertile ground of our common humanity for this is the ground where religion is not a motivation to hate but a way to appreciate the profound beauty and mysteries of life;

for this is the ground where laws are not tools to eliminate those who are different from us but are there to facilitate our harmonious relationship with each other;

for this is the ground where culture is not a channel to express the brutality of our limited perception but a means to express the nobility of our souls;

for this is the ground where the promise of the universality of human rights can be fulfilled!

And we will be in this ground if we let the sanity of our desires, the tenacity of our compassion, and above all, the lucidity of our hearts to reign in our lives.

Thank you!


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Lisa
December 13th, 2009 10:16 am

If I weren't dizzy and, in general, unable to actually form well-thought paragraphs: this would be a very long post about attacking (black) women for their sexuality, personality, and ability to do their job.

This is not how we go about discussion on Spock/Uhura, jsyk. We do not call nuUhura immature or manipulative; we do not say "she sexed her way into The [sic] Enterprise"; we do not say she has mixed priories (I'm sorry — someone has just watched his planet implode; if you really sit and continue to do your job, I'm going to have to go with bitch. YMMV, apparently); and we do not, under any circumstances, mistake canon for fanon ("she ~cockblocked~ Jim").

Thank you for that dollop of misogyny, Fandom. I thought we were past this part of nuTrek.

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Lisa
December 7th, 2009 10:43 pm

Some background: the high school I went to (Thomas Dale) is getting seriously overcrowded; my graduating class was a little over 500 students. And it is only getting bigger. There is a middle school next door (Chester Middle), and the school board is discussing if it should be closed and converted into a building for the 2014 freshmen class.

More background: F.S. is a white, middle aged woman.

F.S. This is segregation without the race factor. Our children will be bused across town to a school that is assigned by the school board to fit their warped plan. I thought we over came that??? We are the people stand up and be heard. Tell your friends and have them tell there friends. It doesn't matter if they live her...e or not. Just think if we let them do this to CMS then who else will they do this to. And everyone pray we need all we can get.

Lisa Gonzalez ...lmfao. this is in no way segregation. please use words correctly.

F.S. yes really look it up.

and please read the whole post and you will see why. keep the nasty replies to yourself.

Lisa this is not a nasty reply, sweetheart; this is a reply calling you on misuse of a real issue. separating students by grade is not segregating. separating them by race or class? yes, that would be segregating. that said, we can't cry segregating until we see how the districts will be redrawn and which students will be sent to which school. that's what we call residential segregation, and it DOES involve race.

and by class, I mean financial class.

F.S. no sweetheart what i am talking about is "lmfao" get a grip. there are children reading these post. and no one is crying.and find someone to try and insult it is not me unless you have my level education on matters such as this. this is not the page to do this either everyone is trying to help so have a wonderful even.

Lisa if you actually had any knowledge on this, you wouldn't be using a term that is used in racism/anti-racism discussion to suit your needs. and misusing terms is not helpful to the cause in any way.

F.S. one more comment and i will report you. do you understand that? is that clear enough? i would hope so.have a good night

Lisa for what? for calling you on your privilege, which you tried to hide behind with ageist and classist bullcrap? go ahead, report me.

F.S. little girl i am white and you thought i was black see how stupid you are.

Lisa no, I knew you were white when I looked at your profile pictures. you have what is called -white privilege-, and you are using terms used in racial discussion to further your cause. what you did was, basically, build off minority backs to make your own platform.

F.S. lady you are really barking up the wrong tree and you are a part of the CMS family?? really go crawl back under your little rock. and really what do you have to offer but negativity. where are you ideas and where were you today???? or yesterday? well. get a grip and a life and try to be a productive member of this community. oh and have a nice day.

segregate--- means seperate or detach from other. look it up in websters SWEETHEART

Lisa I went to Chester Middle school and Thomas Dale. what I am offering is you to get off your white bullshit and stop building off a historically racial issue. -you- need to get a grip and understand racism/anti-racism terms do not exist for you to use incorrectly and for completely different platforms.

F.S. we i can see where you might come from considering you last name. find someone else to take your anger out on. i guess you must have missed a lot of classes due to your dialect.

Lisa ...lol, wow. you really are one racist twit, aren't you?

F.S. and you are a very educated person to use such big words as that. and you call your self a woman. you do make woman look bad.

Lisa racist -and- sexist. that's always a lovely (read: disgusting) combo, Ms. S.

Gidget ([info]gogogidget) Faith, I will tell you once and I will tell you now: back the hell up. My old HS went through the same thing here in Texas re: redistribution of students, and that is exactly what it is. -Redistribution-. Segregation is a loaded term that implies a lot about race and class, and race and class have nothing to do with what's going on here. That's what Lisa has been trying to tell you this whole time, and all you're doing is making yourself and your cause look exponentially worse, not to mention horrifically racist.

Back. Up. Now.

You don't have a damn thing to report her for here, though I could easily send your name to FB abuse staff for your racist and bigoted comments.

F.S. this all started with your comment lmfao. now you have start a larger problem. you should have responed in a lady like way and the whole time you have responed in way that is very nasty. if someone posted something wrong the incorrect way to responed in the way you did. and you for annie go to bed and mind your our business. this has nothing to do with you. lisa wanted to be nasty and you really can keep you profanity to yourself. and yes it is a loaded term if either one of you botherd to read the whole post then you might understand but both of you stoped when you saw the third word. read the whole post and have a nice night. and god bless you both. i will be praying for you both.

Lisa there is nothing to understand. you used a loaded word and then erased why it's loaded ("without the race factor") to suit your needs. you are being a privileged twit, and it needs to stop.

secondly, "you have to be lady like" is an invalid argument to ignore your privilege. look up tone argument.



I WILL BE UPDATING AS THIS LULZ GOES, GUYS. THE POST WAS DELETED AFTER MY FINAL REPLY.

[info]gogogidget has been kind enough to cap the entire thing.

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