Wolfman1982
people are hard to please
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TS woman in wheelchair bashed by thugs using shovel - Australian national MSM not reporting it
http://twincityfocus.com/2011/01/22...red-highlights-violence-lgbti-albury-wodonga/
Posted on January 22, 2011 by Kieran
Lavington: On Monday (Jan 3) Donna Macklan went to visit a friend. Two people in their twenties viciously assaulted Donna, knocking her out of her wheel chair and hitting her with a shovel.
Whilst they were doing this they screamed “you hermaphrodite”. There is a full report in today’s Border Mail.
Donna Macklan was beaten and abused in our community because of her gender identity. This is completely and totally unacceptable.
Or it should be.
We live in a community where LBGTI people have a well founded fear for their safety in public.
This morning I walked hand in hand with my partner into the Birralee shopping centre. I’m male, she’s female. I got to experience a simple pleasure that many of my gay mates would be unable to without some degree of trepidation.
On a Friday night, they might well be taking their lives into their hands.
And lets face it, if you’re transgendered it’s worse.
There are a few people prepared to speak out against the more overt signs of homophobia in our community. It doesn’t stop a certain local Christian Democrat identity screaming “It’s Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve” every time I see him, but at least now he’s widely regarded as a bloody idiot.
Community sentiment on transphobia lags way behind. You’re more likely to see the local paper print letters debating which prayers are more powerful than anything condemning bigotry.
I don’t want to live in a transphobic community, do you? It seems we’ve got one of two options, leave, or change it. And leaving is a bit of a cop out.
- Kieran, 0430509913.
http://twincityfocus.com/2011/01/22...red-highlights-violence-lgbti-albury-wodonga/
Posted on January 22, 2011 by Kieran
Lavington: On Monday (Jan 3) Donna Macklan went to visit a friend. Two people in their twenties viciously assaulted Donna, knocking her out of her wheel chair and hitting her with a shovel.
Whilst they were doing this they screamed “you hermaphrodite”. There is a full report in today’s Border Mail.
Donna Macklan was beaten and abused in our community because of her gender identity. This is completely and totally unacceptable.
Or it should be.
We live in a community where LBGTI people have a well founded fear for their safety in public.
This morning I walked hand in hand with my partner into the Birralee shopping centre. I’m male, she’s female. I got to experience a simple pleasure that many of my gay mates would be unable to without some degree of trepidation.
On a Friday night, they might well be taking their lives into their hands.
And lets face it, if you’re transgendered it’s worse.
There are a few people prepared to speak out against the more overt signs of homophobia in our community. It doesn’t stop a certain local Christian Democrat identity screaming “It’s Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve” every time I see him, but at least now he’s widely regarded as a bloody idiot.
Community sentiment on transphobia lags way behind. You’re more likely to see the local paper print letters debating which prayers are more powerful than anything condemning bigotry.
I don’t want to live in a transphobic community, do you? It seems we’ve got one of two options, leave, or change it. And leaving is a bit of a cop out.
- Kieran, 0430509913.