Secondly, the assumption that all TS are LGB – couldn’t be further from the truth! TS sexuality covers the whole spectrum, in probably the same percentages, as the rest of the worlds population. The main reason for the higher incidence of LGB behavior is the intolerance and discrimination from the rest of the world – straight and LGB – which forces TS to look for companionship within the ‘so-called’ TS community!

And finaly, the comments from Fox are disgusting… but what can you expect of an ultra-conservative christian society?

PS – what Thomas Beattie has done is just so wrong, on so many levels!

Tommy, a lot of Trans people are gay or lesbian, or were before they transitioned. The rest is bi. So yes, they’re part of the family.

P.S. You’ll never be ‘normal’. You are QUEER, which puts you squarely with the rest of the ‘freak show’, peaches. xoxoxo

The conservative American media has massive (and increasing) global penetration, and as such is more likely to influence apparent gains in the regions you mention outside the U.S. And when we have anti-queer crackdowns in powerful areas like China and the Islamic world as well as Fox NOT attracting global condemnation we can look forward to international losses, not gains.

The bigger picture evidences losses than gains, with the best example being the up-the-ante murder of Lawrence King. There is no American historical precedent of a teen being butchered in school for being queer, and no appropriate public outrage ensued. Studies over a decade ago indicated that homo-hatred in junior schools was spiking amongst adolescent males but nothing was done then, and nothing will be done now. Lawrence King is only the first; while a younger generation of schoolkids grows up believing that it’s no big deal to murder a queer because they’re not being educated otherwise at home, in school or in the media.

And since Lawrence King exhibited elements of both tranny and gay behavior I’d say you are tricking yourself into believing that his haters could or would actually differentiate; and it’s shameful that queers would try to point out the difference to them via Thomas Beatie.

So, to conclude, you are 100% wrong when you say straight people feel the same way about gay people as they do transgender people. Don’t try to trick us into believing that all the progress made in the strive for gay acceptance doesn’t exist, because it does!

As for the FOX thing, I’m appalled at some of the comments made. But, like I’ve said before, it’s unreasonable to expect people to be accepting of Beatie.

We are no better than the homophobic straight people if we do unto the transsexuals as the homophobes have done unto us.

By the way everyone, why many of you so caught up in the male/female binary? Androgyny is fine, one does not have to settle for one side or the other, somewhere in between works for many. In many Hindu sects androgynous figures are worshipped for their ability to transcend the male/female binary and tap into the knowledge that lies in that position.

We won’t mainstream ourselves any time soon by obtaining “tolerance” at the expense of trannys: racism isn’t selective, misogyny isn’t selective and hatred of queers isn’t selective.

And we’re just ethically bankrupt if we show derisive intolerance to somebody who’s doing exactly what they want with reproduction and gender – with or without the psycho-babble.

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