Politicians Use Us For Votes…

…By demonizing us. When politicians lie, when school officials look the other way, when the media supports the lies, when police officers look the other way it all leads to violence directed at trans people.

New York Times Blames Texas Lt. Gov. for Next Trans Suicide
In a scathing message from the editorial board of The New York Times, the gray lady slams the state's top officials for peddling provably false transphobic myths in the controversy over HERO.
The Advocate
By Sunnivie Brtdum
November 5, 2015

As LGBT leaders pontificate on the "how" and "why" of Tuesday's overwhelming electoral defeat of the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance, the editorial board of The New York Times is pointing its finger squarely at the Texas State Capitol in Austin.

"Sometime in the near future, a transgender teenager in Texas will attempt suicide — and maybe succeed — because vilifying people for their gender identity remains politically acceptable in America," opens the editorial, published one day after Houston voters soundly rejected the broad nondiscrimination protections HERO sought to provide.

In the New York Times article it said that,

The hateful rhetoric of leaders like Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is the latest, ugliest example. Mr. Patrick was ebullient on Tuesday night after it became clear that Houston voters had decidedly rejected a broad equal rights ordinance that opponents maliciously and misleadingly characterized as a boon for cross-dressing sex offenders.

“It was about protecting our grandmoms and our mothers and our wives and our sisters and our daughters and our granddaughters,” Mr. Patrick said as he thanked a crowd of joyful supporters who nodded and cried “Amen!”
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Opponents of the law, led by Jared Woodfill, a Houston lawyer and a Texas Republican Party leader, started a well-funded campaign that equated supporting it with allowing men to use women’s public restrooms for deviant purposes. Their fearmongering, blasted on yard signs, bellowed from church pulpits and dramatized in a television ad, suggested that sexual deviants were waiting for the ordinance to kick in to sneak up on unsuspecting women in bathroom stalls.

Many of the media outlets ate it up, they repeated the lies and called the ordinance “The Bathroom Bill” they didn’t care about the facts, it sold ads, and it increased readership and ratings. It was good for their bottom line so what if it villainized a marginalized community, they are a minority and can’t complain that much.

As a result of the vote there is backlash from “GAY INC.” as one of the comments shows,
As a married gay man, I support the rights of everyone to live their lives in peace HOWEVER I am increasingly unhappy with the constant linking of my particular issues as a gay male with those of the transgender community - our specific issues are DIFFERENT.
And in the Change.org petition,

We are a group of gay/bisexual men and women who have come to the conclusion that the transgender community needs to be disassociated from the larger LGB community; in essence, we ask that organizations such as the Human Rights Campaign, GLAAD, Lambda Legal and media outlets such as The Advocate, Out, Huff Post Gay Voices, etc., stop representing the transgender community as we feel their ideology is not only completely different from that promoted by the LGB community (LGB is about sexual orientation, trans is about gender identity), but is ultimately regressive and actually hostile to the goals of women and gay men.

There are several areas in which the ideology of the trans community is at odds with or actively hostile to that of women and gay men; among the most important are:

Translated: We want ours, screw you!