Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State: This And That In The News

Sunday, April 29, 2018

This And That In The News

There are a number of news articles that are news worthy but are not enough for their own posts so here are some of the articles that caught my eye.

'No questions off-limits' for those attending transgender Q&A at North Charleston brewery
The Post and Courier
By Hannah Alani
April 27, 2018

Indie rock lyrics crooned through the speakers of a downtown coffee shop while College of Charleston students crammed for their finals.
[…]
She reserved her energy for "Trans Talk: Uncensored" — a panel discussion taking place this Sunday at Commonhouse Aleworks, a brewery near Park Circle in North Charleston.
[…]
Leland will be one of five panelists who plan to cast political correctness and their own comfort aside in an effort give people a chance to ask whatever questions they have about gender identity.

Chase Glenn, executive director of the Lowcountry-based Alliance for Full Acceptance, will moderate Sunday's event. He hopes people who have never met a transgender person will show up.

I think that it is a great idea to hold the panel at brew pub, I have been on panels at LGBT centers, libraries, school LGBT center’s but it always seems like we are “preaching to the choir.” Having it at a brew pub might attract a different audience.

Some trans people look online for partners and many of the sites are gay or lesbian sites and many times we are not welcome there, while other trans people post on mainstream dating sites which have their own problems for us. So now there is a dating site for just trans people but many trans people have deep problems with the site.

Trans people hate the world’s first transgender dating app [updated]
DailyDot
By Ana Valens
April 24, 2018

Transdr is billed as a dating app for transgender people—which sounds great! Most transgender men, women, and non-binary people have been stuck with apps like Grindr and Tinder for years, and they haven’t hosted the most inclusive experiences for trans people out there.

“Life has been so hard for trans people because they have to overcome the social stigma of being transgender. When it comes to dating, it’s even harder for them,” Transdr co-founder Sean Kennedy told HuffPost. “They need a comfortable place to meet and date with other trans people without judgment.”

But Transdr isn’t the trans dating utopia it’s marketed to be. In fact, trans people don’t even think it’s designed for them.

Over at Transdr’s official website, the app bills itself as a “premier TS dating” community for both “transgender people and their admirers.” The use of “admirers” is already a tad fetishizing, and then there is how the dating service is listed on the iOS App Store: “Transdr: TS Dating for Shemale.” The term “shemale” is highly offensive toward trans women, as it implies transgender women are simply feminized males that act like women.

Calling trans girls “shemales” right at the front gate isn’t a good look, especially because trans sex workers have worked tirelessly to end its usage in the adult performance world. But Apple’s storefront isn’t the only place where Transdr apparently uses offensive terms to reference trans women.

I know that I don’t want to find love on the internet but many trans people do and as long as they are consenting adults they can chose where they want to look for a partner.

Lastly, another trans student elected for prom queen.

Homestead prom queen: I didn't win for being transgender, I won for being me
Classmates elect junior Nikko Nelson without controversy
WISN 12
By Colleen Henry
April 28, 2018

MEQUON, Wis. —
Without controversy or criticism, Homestead High School in Mequon, crowned a young woman prom queen who was born a boy.

It was a dream for a girl who's struggled for acceptance ever since she was a little boy.
[…]
For all the political controversy about transgender, the kids at Homestead looked past the issue and picked the person they wanted to be the queen of their prom, WISN 12 News reporter Colleen Henry said.

"I didn't win prom queen for being a transgender girl. I won prom queen for being Nikko Nelson," she said.

Good for her!

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Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

A right delayed is a right denied.Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.
Martin Luther King Jr.

No one is born hating another person… People must learn to hate and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Nelson Mandela

We can disagree and still love each other, unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist
James Baldwin

There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.
Newton Lee

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
Albert Einstein

"The point is that there are always obstacles, whether they seem insurmountable or merely bothersome. The question is not how difficult the path, but whether in your heart, you wish to undertake the journey."
Zandru's Forge

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
Mahatma Gandhi

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

You've Got To Be Carefully Taught
You've got to be taught
To hate
And fear
You've got to be taught
From year
To year
Its got to
Be drummed in your dear little ear
You've got to
Be carefully
Taught
You've got to be taught
To be
Afraid
Of people
Who's eyes are oddly made
And people who's skin is a different shade

South Pacific
Songwriters: Oscar Hammerstein II / Richard Rogers

Sunday, April 29, 2018

This And That In The News

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