With so much focus on pride this month, forward-thinking corporations aren’t afraid to spotlight the LGBT community. But more often than not, they focus on gay and lesbian stories.
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Google has just released an ad for their My Business tools featuring a gym in Kansas City, MO that specializes in helping people transitioning from female to male build the bodies they’ve always known were right for them.
First we meet Jake, who talks about what it was like to grow up with gender dysphoria, then we see YouTube clips (nice plug there, Google) of other trans men sharing their journeys.
How about we take this to the next level?
Our newsletter is like a refreshing cocktail (or mocktail) of LGBTQ+ entertainment and pop culture, served up with a side of eye-candy.
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Glücklich
Well good for them. Better for the KC gym. That’s a much more interesting story. I’m not trans but if I ever get back to KC…well, I don’t know. I’m not their target client but very cool there is such a business in KC. Only ever been around Country Club Plaza and American Century’s place anyway.
Yeah and I’m posting too quickly. Buzz off!
Clark35
Actually the B or bisexuality gets ignored more than the T does.
But I know many LBG, and even Trans people who think that the T should be removed from LGB or LGB issues since the majority of lesbian, bisexual, and gay people are not trans and do not have gender issues, and being gay/bi/lesbian is someone’s sexuality, and being trans is not a sexuality or sexual orientation at all.
alterego1980
@Clark35: I hear that arguement. I don’t necessarily agree with that take, and I think it would be wrong to exclude or shun those people from the community known as LGBT. After-all, until they figure out that they should be another gender, many are just as gay as the rest of us. My only issue with some Trans folks, is after their transition, if they try to whitewash who they were as part of their life story and try to leave the community. They are not straight men, or straight women, They are trans men who love women and vice-versa. In my opinion, deleting that flies in the face of everything they have been through and equality we have all fought for. We are better at being who we really are, not trying to conform to a hetero-normative society.
Jacob23
Clark35 is right. The only thing I disagree with is his reference to “removing” the T from LGBT. A better way to look at it is that “LGBT” was never a description of the real world. It was a false construction from the get-go, as certain activists tried to corral 2 communities into one, under their leadership and control. There’s no need to remove any letters because the 2 groups were never really one to begin with.
AlterEgo1980, I think you are probably a kind person who doesn’t want to offend anyone. But that good impulse is leading you to some wrong conclusions. All transgenders don’t become “one people” with LGBs because some subset of trans people erroneously thought themselves gay for a time. At the end of the day, transgender is not a sexual orientation and transgenders can be straight, bi or gay, just like any “cis” person. There is no more sense in adding a T to LGB than there would be to add a C.
Those transgenders who are LGB are surely part of the LGB community. But there’s no logical reason to take straight transsexuals, straight crossdressers, straight hermaphrodites, and straight men and women who exhibit any degree of gender nonconformity and declare them as forming “one people” with LGBs.
Giancarlo85
Again there is no such thing as “LGB”. Can you nuts stop making up acronyms and stop your bullying and discrimination? It’s so ironic some closeted gay men engage in so much bullying. You’re projecting hatred you were taught because you want to be one of the “guys”.
No, it wasn’t a false construction, jacob. But keep repeating that lie. You repeat that lie 3 or 4 times a week. It’s become a habit for you. You repeating that garbage has almost become tradition. Any time there is an article about trans people here I almost certainly expect to see you here spouting off the same garbage.
Jacob23
@Giancarlo85: lol! Did I upset you, princess? Don’t cry, it’ll smear your mascara!
LGB not only describes reality, but it (along with “lesbigay” and “lesbian and gay”) was the way that all gay people referred to our community prior to the late 1990s. If you’re gay, then learn your gay history. Go look at the official names for the national marches in 1979, 1987, and 1993. No “LGBT”. Somehow, the entire LGB population for multiple decades totally overlooked that they were “one people” with straight crossdressers and hermaphrodites. Now they have losers like you to yell at them if they don’t believe that nonsense.
Mikah
That was beautiful.
Giancarlo85
@Jacob23: Trans people are part of the struggle whether you want to admit it or not. Your delusional fantasies have no bearing on reality. Your denial is well noted. You are a bigot and a hypocrite. There was never a LGB community. You can make up any acronym you want but you couldn’t be further from the truth. By the way, many trans people are gay too. But I guess such concepts go pass your head.
What do I expect from someone like you? You don’t even like feminine gay men and you would rather we disappear. You are nothing more than a closeted conformist fake.
AtticusBennett
we’re all in it together. those who disagree are destined to waste their lives alone, unloved, unsupported and bitter.
AtticusBennett
behind every anti-trans gay man is the family that wished they weren’t related to him.
Jacob23
@Giancarlo85:
“By the way, many trans people are gay too. But I guess such concepts go pass your head.”
Can you read? As I commented to Alterego1980 above:
“Those transgenders who are LGB are surely part of the LGB community. But there’s no logical reason to take straight transsexuals, straight crossdressers, straight hermaphrodites, and straight men and women who exhibit any degree of gender nonconformity and declare them as forming “one people” with LGBs.”
Neshama
@Clark35: True, we Bisexuals are ignored a great deal more. In fact, people are trying to erase us completely. They even has been talk of removing the B and just having it LGT.
Giancarlo85
@Jacob23: You are making up acronyms. You are lying and you don’t know anything. There are gay trans people too, idiot. Learn that gender expression defies sexual orientaiton. Gay people can be trans too.
Neshama
@alterego1980: Wrong. As a Bisexual, and in the community. We are ignored a great deal more than Trans. There is even bi-erasure. People trying to pretend we don’t exist. There has been comments and talk of removing the B from LGBT and making it LGT. Even Google has made anything bisexual related a bit more difficult to find. Even when you type “bi” in the google search engine, nothing bisexual related comes up. I suggest some real actual, accurate research.
Bisexual search results. You have to actually spell it out to “bisex” before it even comes up. Oh and NO dictionary info.
About 938,000 results.
Transgender search results. All you have to do is type “T” or “Tr” and it comes up. It even has a dictionary info at the top.
About 104,000,000 results.
Gay search results. Oh and you have to spell it out. No dictionary info.
About 803,000,000 results.
Lesbian search results. You also have to spell it out. No dictionary info.
About 290,000,000 results.
Everyone of them has MILLION in their search history, yet Bisexuals have less than a million.
So, tell me again who is being repressed super genius?
Because the facts clearly state. Bisexuals are ignored a great deal more.
Like I said, do some actual real research. Not the made up nonsense you have been doing.
Nic
@Jacob23: I agree with you 100%. I don’t think everyone is getting what you’re saying. You’re not an idiot, and I’ve never given it much thought before but you’re right. I would like to say though, that straight homophobes will undoubtedly throw trans into any discussion of gays just because they do this with anyone different. We could take T out, but they’d throw it back in there just to let trans people know they think little of them..
Giancarlo85
@Nic: Oh he’s definitely an idiot who is making up history and making up acronyms. People like you and Jacob are all about pleasing heterosexuals. You don’t care about gay people who are out, and you certainly don’t care about trans people. You do everything in your power to please straight people. No, you “cannot take T out” because that isn’t up to you.
Vapid idiots.
AtticusBennett
@Neshama: or you bisexuals could raise your visibility more. i see many anonymous bisexuals complaining online about not being represented, and very few of you who actually click “record” on your damn computers and get yourselves on youtube and show yourselves and share your own personal experiences.
so try it out, eh?
Giancarlo85
Using search results on google as a way to look at visibility. Now that’s hilarious.
Jacob23
@Neshama – You are right. Bisexuals are every bit a part of LGB as the L and the G. And bisexuals have every right to insist on representation. What you may not know is that the addition of the “T” has not only eclipsed bisexuals, but it has harmed them in a far more serious way. Trans activist ideology holds that there is no “gender binary.” They don’t believe in “male” and “female” but in a spectrum of gender. Therefore, they object to “bisexuals” because bisexuality implies two sexes. So they have set about trying to destroy bisexual identity. Just recently, the “LGBTQ Task Force” (which once upon a time served the interests of LGBs, but is now totally transjacked) had to publicly apologize to bisexuals when one of its officers disparaged bisexuality. As reported by The Advocate last October, the group’s “leadership programs director” Evangeline Weiss said she is ready to say bye bye to the word bisexuality. . . . She encouraged readers to cease using the word as well, as she felt it reinforced a binary concept of gender.”
Like true parasites, trans activists first invade the host, take up residence and then set about taking control, eliminating whatever is not useful. To Ts, the LG are to be controlled, and the B is to be eliminated.
@Nic:
Thanks for your comment. I appreciate it. Although some anti-gay morons do lump LGB and T together, not all of them do. Some have a very clear understanding of the difference. In any event, it isn’t our job to facilitate or endorse the erroneous views of some homophobes. We should stand for what is true. LGB and T are not one group. That is true whether 0%, 50% or 100% of homophobes believe it. Incidentally, affirming that there are 2 groups does not preclude our being allies with Ts. By way of analogy, the USA can affirm that it isn’t the UK, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be friends.
Also, to anyone interested in this subject, I strongly encourage you to use the internet and look at the history yourselves. Don’t take my word for it. Go and investigate yourself. You will not see “LGBT” prior to the late 1990s. For nearly all of the 20th century, we were gay, “gay and lesbian” and finally LGB or lesbigay. Not only did we not link ourselves to transgenders, we tried to educate society that being gay did NOT mean that you were gender confused or that you wanted to be the opposite sex. Harvey Milk himself made this point repeatedly, and of course never once referred to gays as “LGBT.” We should ask ourselves why we are allowing “LGBT” to undo Harvey Milk’s efforts to educate the world.
Giancarlo85
@Jacob23: And the liar is back at it… revising history for his own personal gain and nobody is listening to his pile of crap. The only parasite is Jacob. A self absorbed closet queen who rides on the coat tails of the progress out gay people make. Nobody is listening to your lies anymore, jacob. Now go hide in the closet.
Clark35
@AtticusBennett: As though youtube videos actually show visibility among bisexuals.