Yesterday, I got misgendered in my French class. Since the French language genders most things, stupidly in my opinion, this sucked even more than it would otherwise. This got me thinking about all the other transgender people who have gotten misgendered, particularly Brendon Teena. For those that don't know the story of Brendon Teena I'll give you a summary of what happened to him.
In December of 1993 Brendon Teena was rapped and murdered by his supposed friends once they found out that he had a vagina. At the time he was dating a girl and was living as a man in the community. IMPORTANT TO NOTE: BRANDON TEENA WAS/IS A MAN!!! You wouldn't know that from what the police reports/documentaries/movie made about the story say.
I just did a random search on Google and found that the grand majority of the articles about it use female pronouns when referring to him and call him a lesbian. They do this based SOLELY on the fact that he has a vagina and was not on hormones and didn't have any surgery. I also know for a fact that lots of lesbians try to take HIM back as one of their own. This is absolute BULLSHIT!
Brendon Teena was, is and always will be a MAN! He is not, nor has he ever been a lesbian! He was never yours to take! Leave him the fuck alone, he is ours! This is not to say that he was straight either. He could have been bisexual, pansexual, omnisexual, etc, etc but one thing he would NEVER ever be is a lesbian! The lesbians who try to take him "back" need to stop! He was never yours to take, move a long nothing to see here folks! STOP trying to rewrite our history and make it seem like OUR people, ie trans folks, belong to you when it is simply not the case. The media in general fucks this shit up all the time!
Another infamous murder case that the bullshit media has talked about has a transwomyn at the center of it. The story is about a cisman in the army who is dating a transwomyn, who, just to get rid of this argument right away, had gone through everything that most states require to be a "legal" womyn. The cisman was killed by his supposed "buddies" after they found that his girlfriend *gasp* use to have a penis. This story was also made into a film called Soldiers Girl. Once again when the media tells this story they fuck it up!
The documentary I saw kept calling the man, who was dating the transwomyn, Calpernia Addams, a gay man. Lets get something clear here, Calpernia IS a womyn! He was in a relationship with a womyn! Therefore it was a HETEROSEXUAL relationship! He may have been bi, pan, omni, etc, etc but he is NOT a gay man! To give the gay male community credit they have not tried to take him "back" in this instance(lesbian community take fucking note!). Shockingly enough, the documentary didn't referrer to Calperina as a man. Not only is this a GIANT FUCKING contradiction of them calling the solider gay, it is also very invalidating to the transwomyn. You may as well put the word womyn in quotes the entire time, because obviously you have no fucking respect for her, who she is or how she identifies.
I really need to make a big fucking stick that has CISFAIL on it in big black letters, so I can hit fucking morons like those talked about above. Maybe then people will pull their heads out of their asses. Seriously, people STOP IT or I will strike you with my CISFAIL STICK!
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