Comments on: Bullied Md. trans student suspended after fight

By: Mika Jax

Mika Jax — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 00:04:32 +0000

Couldn't she have friends who are both lgbt and not lgbt?

By: Alfie Parr

Alfie Parr — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 23:49:10 +0000

[1/15/13 6:44:44 PM] douglas adnd: FEMALE NATURE
[1/15/13 6:44:52 PM] douglas adnd: "IDENTITY"
[1/15/13 6:45:06 PM] douglas adnd: MaINSTREAM WOMEN
[1/15/13 6:45:17 PM] daphne donaghy: stop stops tops ototpsoootoosptoosotppsotosooptotpsootototpospoptposopptpodpopsppdopotpposptopoppspopopodpooptpospopopotposopposop
[1/15/13 6:45:38 PM] douglas adnd: WEEPS
[1/15/13 6:45:44 PM] douglas adnd: WHY DO THEY PRETEND TO IKNOW WHAT HER JUNK :LOOKS LIKE
[1/15/13 6:46:00 PM] daphne donaghy: OIM GONAN DIE
[1/15/13 6:47:26 PM] douglas adnd: OR WHA??T SHE??? "BEHAVES LIKE" OR WHAT PERSONAL DECISIONS SHE WILL MAKE IM CRYING

This is what two teenagers think of your comment.

By: Plum Gurly

Plum Gurly — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:50:19 +0000

Oh, BTW, I do hate it when author change genders. If someone is truly a born TS, not a guy choosing to be a TG, it is offensive to change genders in the history. Refer to them ONLY by their current name and gender no matter what you are describing or when. Who a TS is happens to be decided at birth, so you are born with a female nature and identity if you are a TS. Then you are forced to have a name that you should have never had and be subject to the child abuse of being raised as the wrong gender. It is wrong and immoral to out a TS's past names or to ever refer to them as anything other than what they present as NOW. They transition because they hate the old name and old life and don't want others to know it. It would be stupid to change your name if you want everyone to know your old one. So I think Steve should do some more work and find out if she is a TS (or if he is a non-op TG for life) and use she throughout if TS, and he throughout if TG.

By: Plum Gurly

Plum Gurly — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:44:19 +0000

Because of redeclaring themselves and coming out as two different things, that is why they got both insults. I think this person was confused and the alleged bully decided to cover both bases.

By: Plum Gurly

Plum Gurly — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:41:46 +0000

Or a gay boy who hates being a gay boy and pretends to be a girl to make his gay sex feel less revolting to himself. Most non-op TGs have gay backgrounds. They are self-haters who are homophobic and gay so they think putting on a dress to have sex makes them less gay. And their paramours are the same in that they prefer their gay men in dresses so they can play with their penises and not be be considered gay.

Also, keep in mind that being a male-born TG in a dress, or being a TS woman does not negate your orientation. If this is a TS, then she would be a straight, Mainstream (non-LGBT) woman. But if this is a TG, then this is just a gay boy who chooses to dress as a girl. Either way, there is still a definite orientation. I hate how some sites cannot understand that TS is not a gender (but a birth defect) nor an orientation, so their forms are messed up so you cannot honestly fill them out. Stuff like, are you a man, woman, or TS/TG? Or, are you gay/les, straight, bi, or trans? Transgender and transsexual are not orientations and do not keep you from having an orientation or gender.

By: Plum Gurly

Plum Gurly — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:33:43 +0000

It is only misgendering is she is a TS. If this is a TG boy in a dress as the author says, then He is the correct term. If you weren't born with a female nature and don't have Mainstream values and needs, and are not getting surgery, then "he" is the correct pronoun regardless of what "identity" they have. By referring to non-op TG males in dresses with female pronouns, you are disrespecting TSs and other Mainstream women everywhere. A MtF CD/TG is a He despite the dress, while a MtF TS with non-LGBT values, and the need for full-assimilation and surgery is a She. If I know someone behaves like a man, has male arrogance and power, or wants to keep his penis for life, that is what I call them, a man.

By: Plum Gurly

Plum Gurly — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:26:05 +0000

I think Dee really is a TG boy choosing to masquerade as a girl. A self-respecting TS woman would never call herself a gay man since she'd know she was a girl her whole life. Likewise, if this were a TS girl, she would not have close loyalties to gay friends, but would have other non-LGBT girls as friends. So they need to decide whether to live a gay student as supports gays or a girl student who supports other girls, not try to straddle the fence and be both.

By: Plum Gurly

Plum Gurly — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:21:09 +0000

Was she a TS girl who would eventually need corrective surgery and hormones, or truly a TG "girl" (boy who chooses to live as a girl despite his inborn masculinity and desire to keep his penis and use it) as the article says? Too many times do reporters lie on TS girls and call them TG "girls." If this is merely a male-born TG who chooses to be like a girl (or a horny teen male's vision of what a girl is), then the name he was called was true and he should have taken his "medicine" for his choice like a man. Otherwise, I feel sorry for the girl.

By: Darryl Hamlin

Darryl Hamlin — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 21:00:43 +0000

That awkward moment when school officials are so dense that they can apparently say with a straight face a bullying incident that included one gender identity-based slur, and one sexual orientation-based slur was "not based on orientation". There are two options for why this was said by the official. Either complete incompetence, or bigotry (as bigots tend to view their favored slurs as perfectly fine to use and not a sign of said bigotry).

By: Alfie Parr

Alfie Parr — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 20:19:39 +0000

"Dee identified as a gay male named David while attending Golden Ring Middle School where [she] had been bullied constantly for being gay."

She IDs as female now. There's no need to misgender her- in fact, it's offensive and outright oppressive!