I am now going to state the blindingly obvious, but obviously not obvious to everyone.
Our demonstration and anger at Stonewall had nothing to do with internal trans politics. It had everything to do with careless disregard of trans people by Stonewall.
What is the subject of internal trans politics is the abject failure of the traditional trans leadership. Thus the rans leadership's failure was not the cause of the demonstration but it did make th2e lead up to the demonstration very emotional for those of us who have worked with and respected them.
That however is different from the task we face now. That task is, in part, to do with trans politics but it is also to do with wider LGBT politics. The task we face now is one we did not seek and I for one would rather not have to do it, is to build a new trans leadership that we can have confidence in, our confidence in the old leadership having been shattered. And after that as been achieved we then have to wor with the wider LGBT leadership to to, as far as possible, that a similar situation does not arise in future.
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Date: 2008-11-10 07:33 am (UTC)Our demonstration and anger at Stonewall had nothing to do with internal trans politics. It had everything to do with careless disregard of trans people by Stonewall.
What is the subject of internal trans politics is the abject failure of the traditional trans leadership. Thus the rans leadership's failure was not the cause of the demonstration but it did make th2e lead up to the demonstration very emotional for those of us who have worked with and respected them.
That however is different from the task we face now. That task is, in part, to do with trans politics but it is also to do with wider LGBT politics. The task we face now is one we did not seek and I for one would rather not have to do it, is to build a new trans leadership that we can have confidence in, our confidence in the old leadership having been shattered. And after that as been achieved we then have to wor with the wider LGBT leadership to to, as far as possible, that a similar situation does not arise in future.