TIME Blog, USA

….Transsexual International Media Examiner…. TIME blog

Trans group forms to combat defamation and it’s about TIME!

Source Timeblog.org

(For group specifics and mission statement click the ‘about us’ page
for instructions to become a contributor)

Invitation to form and participate with TIMEblog.org A Trans
identified and led group of advocate journalists from Australia, New
Zealand, Canada and United States of American.

I am writing you because of our shared passion that transgender people
be treated with dignity.

How many times have we been assailed by gay media with the word
‘tranny’ being used as a pejorative?

How any times have we responded individually hoping for a larger
transender community response to back us up on a offenders blog?

How many times have we as a community been gang raped by gay media in
articles purportedly desiring goodwill dialogue with trans people that
in realty were thinly disguised efforts crafted to antagonize and
dehumanize us?

How many times have you felt as I have, powerless, when responding on
my blog knowing good and well I was only reaching 1/10th of the
audience as the offending gay blog?

How many times have we watched mainstream media pickup on gay media’s
predatory practices, parrot the offending gay media’s offensive
behaviour therby gaining attention exponentially.

How many times have you shared my sense of disempowerment when the gay
organization GLAAD, as admirable an ally as they are, is the only
organization to speak for transgender people?

How often have we been frustrated by GLAAD’s unwillingness to confront
Gay people and groups who are presently allowed to defame trans people
with impunity?

We will confront gay media without hesitation with every tool avaliable.

I have conducted a survey of trans identified people on TransAction
ConVergence. The results http://bit.ly/gLVkl4 of this survey provides
us with a mandate to speak on behalf of the trans community.

One tenet of TIME will be our vocal objection to ‘tranny’ being used
in Cisgender media no matter whether gay or hetero.

We will voice condemnation when religious groups denigrate us. Their
misrepresentation and defamation of trans people in religious media is
a major factor in for our present position in society.

There will be occasions when issuance of statements and blog posts
will be insufficient to bring about change. In these instances we will
initiate email campaigns, letters to the editor of local papers and
phone calls.

If all else fails, protests are the last option and will be done if possiable.

The group will be called ‘transsexual’ because the survey indicated
that moniker is most favored for people who identify under the trans
umbrella.

We will further identify ourselves as exactly how we identify in the
‘About page’. I would like to include a contributors (thats you) page.
You will be given the option to upload a picture and be as forthcoming
as possiable about yourself and where you live. Remember, visibility
is one our greatest tools in creating a sense of familiarity with and
acceptance from cisgender people.

Also, posting detailed information about yourself will help to silence
our detractors of which there will undoubtedly be many and be
forewarned, you may be targeted with misinformation and personal
attacks, some even comming from own community!

As a organization, banding together transgender bloggers and activists
and armed with factual evidence of transgender sensitivities we will
dismantle gay misogony and hetero transphobia in media. As never
before we will have a voice.

I see a organization run by individual bloggers and activists
belonging to Timeblog.org each acting autonomously, Each possessing
her/his unique abilities and passions cross posting from their own
blogs on Time. Each contributor will be empowered with equal abilities
to issue statements on behalf of TIME when necessary, condeming or
commending.

A core group of officers led by myself will reserve the authority to
censure and/or remove contributors who do not understand the purpose
of or abuse TIME.

Our power united we will easily overcome our singular adversaries.
Together we can do this.

Hoping you will join this endeavour. We are nothing without you.

We are unstoppable with you.

Love,

kelli Anne Busey
Its about TIME!

Battered South African lesbian petitions Justice Minister to criminalize 'corrective rape' from safe house

Earlier this year Millicent Gaika, a 30-year-old South African woman, was tied up, beaten, strangled, tortured and raped for five hours by a man as he screamed that he would “cure” Millicent of her lesbianism.

Ndumie Funda, a local community activist whose lesbian partner was murdered in the course of a similar “corrective rape,” reached out to Millicent through a small local charity she set up to rescue and support survivors of “corrective rape.” But last month they both had to go into hiding after the South African government released the perpetrator they had helped to jail on 60 rand (less than $10) bail.
Ndumie, Millicent and others decided to fight back against the rapists and the lack of accountability for their crimes.

From a Cape Town safehouse for survivors of ‘corrective rape,’ the women created a petition on Change.org targeting South African Justice Minister Jeffrey Radebe.
Please, they wrote, declare 'corrective rape' a hate crime, which would both empower and require South African police to take a harder line on the vicious crime.
Click here to add your name to the petition.


More than 500 “corrective rapes” are reported in South Africa each year, and more than 30 South African lesbians have been murdered because of their sexuality over the past decade. Worse, for every 100 men charged with rape in South Africa, 96 of them walk free.

We can help here. Last year, South Africa's National Prosecuting Authority went on record refusing to formally declare 'corrective rape' a hate crime, saying "It is not something that the South African government has prioritized as a specific project."

But with enough international pressure on the South African government, such heinous crimes might finally be taken seriously. More than 2,000 Change.org members have added their name to the petition created by Ndumie and Millicent. Click here to add yours:
http://www.change.org/petitions/view/south_africa_declare_corrective_rape_a_hate-crime?alert_id=SlPqUMmEGV_WMWTjCocJQ&me=aa

Thank you for taking action,
- The Change.org Team

P.S. Every time a new person signs the petition, the Justice Minister’s office automatically gets an email. So once you join, will you forward this to friends and family, and post on Facebook, so that they hear a global outcry?

Kicked off "Outcast Island" Transman Reality

Gay people, this is reality and it's not new or a show.

Transmen experence unique, extremly stressful personal issues especially early in transition. Unexpected and sometimes fatal is to be accepted by family, religion and cisgender heterosexual society only to suffer attacks on the essence of our morality and the rational for transition questioned and perverted by the people we once considered our dearest friends and confidants!

Gay Transphobia for trans people is being cast adrift from 'OutCast Island' is as a leper is to the "clean".

WikiLeaks Fight for Life Internet Access Denied: Become a Mirror Site Keep it Alive!

Do you beleive now as I once did the Internet was our last frontier? One space we could express ourselves freely without govermental infringing on our global freedom of speech?

I learned the hard way, we are watched. This blog was once shut down for three weeks after I exposed Congressman Barney Franks longtime employment of male prostitutes (rentboys) and how he avoided censure and deflected criticism begining a regiment of derogatory commentary about a even less accepted minority, transgender people. Thus began Franks statements then welcomed by misogynist and transphobes, now infamous and politically suicidal 'men with penis's in the ladies room'.

I would still be silent had it not been for the Internet uproar created by fellow bloggers which caused this server to allow me access again.

WikiLeaks need us to do the same for them now.

There are 500 hundred DNS servers which is Short for Domain Name System (or Service or Server), an Internet service that translates domain names into IP addresses. Because domain names are alphabetic, they're easier to remember. The Internet however, is really based on IP addresses. Every time you use a domain name, therefore, a DNS service must translate the name into the corresponding IP address. For example, the domain name www.example.com might translate to 198.105.232.4.

Today Wikileaks encountered a new form of censorship that should make all of us shudder. Rather than being shutdown at the web hosting level, EveryDNS shutdown the wikleaks.org domain name.

What we can do.

The easyest is displaying the Wiikleak picture or embed the code as I have done, on your web site.

There is a blogspot called (untill it is also shutdown) Wilileaks Mirror List.
which has instructions on how we can be of help. Our participation is not without danger. You may also be shut down, but without us holding the worlds goverment accountable for our freedoms with the Internet we only know what they wish us to.

The full list of more than 700 mirrors is under the Mirrors tab on each of the sites listed below...
wikileaks.ch - Official Wikileaks Page
wikileaks.fi - Mirror Finland [46.59.1.2]
wikileaks.nl - Mirror Netherlands [46.59.1.2]
wikileaks.de - Mirror Germany [88.80.13.160]
wikileaks.eu - Mirror Europe [88.80.13.160]
wikileaks.pl - Mirror Poland [88.80.13.160]
wikileaks.at - Mirror Austria [46.59.1.2]
wikileaks.lu - Mirror Luxembourg [46.59.1.2]
wikileaks.se - Mirror Sweden [88.80.6.179]
wikileaks.no - Mirror Norway [46.59.1.2]
wikileaks.is - Mirror Iceland [46.59.1.2]
nyud.net - Mirror United States [129.170.214.192]
wikileaks.ca - Mirror Canada [46.59.1.2]
wikileaks.info - Mirror of previous leaks [62.2.16.94]Important Wikileaks Links
twitter.com/wikileaks - Official Wikileaks Twitter Page
facebook.com/wikileaks - Official Wikileaks Facebook Page

Get on it! CUTTING EDGE ADVOCACY!

New Allies: Southern Poverty Law Center lists 18 anti LGBT org.s as Hate Groups

Allies in the transgender struggle for equality are among our most valued assets. So when a organization that has long fought on the side of minorities declares our most venomous detractors 'Hate groups' we take notice, as does the whole of humanity.

The SPLC definition of a GLBT hate group "... the SPLC’s listings of these groups is based on their propagation of known falsehoods — claims about LGBT people that have been thoroughly discredited by scientific authorities — and repeated, groundless name-calling. Viewing homosexuality as unbiblical does not qualify organizations for listing as hate groups."

On the list is Concerned Woman for America which repeatedly consigned transgender, men and predator to the same sentence when informing it's membership about ENDA and Hate Crime Laws....

"That means that transgenders in these states who are residents and/or public employees may enter any restroom. But what about men (predators) who might pretend to be transgendered in order to exploit the vulnerability of women and children?"

"Everyday places where men/boys could be allowed in ladies’ restrooms are: schools (all grade levels), churches (unless there is a religious exemption in the law), daycares, fitting rooms, drug stores, libraries, swimming facilities, fitness clubs, child game stores, and shopping malls."

"In other words — any public restroom in any public place is covered by this law."

"The most dangerous bill, however, is the federal bill, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA). This law will apply to all states and change the face of American society. The Obama Administration lists this law under “civil rights.”

It’s a law that pretends to respect a few while endangering women and children on a psychological level — if not a physical level. Men (predator or transgender) will be able to intrude in the most private of places."

Not provided in this groups position statement is proof. Not one incident is documented to lend credence to it's fear mongering tactics.

Thank you SPLC. It is important these groups are exposed for what they are, hate groups.

The Trentonian newspaper's Christmas Kick in the Teeth with 'Tranny' headline

Original story follows this update.

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Updated Dec 01, 2010: The Trentonian newspaper replaces 'tranny' in headline with 'transgender'.

The Newspaper evidently unaware of the problematic nature of the word 'tranny' made the change after being alerted by GLAAD which linked this article in it's announcement.

I would like to thank the Trentonian on behalf of the majority of trans folk who were offended by this pejorative and for your making this correction so quickly. Thank you GLAAD and Aaron Nobel, Merry Christmas!

# # # # # #

Original story published Nov 29, 2010:

The Trentonian headline published Sunday, November 28, 2010 reads "Trannies rejoice because they're finding jobs at Goodwill store."

In a holiday slap down aimed at trans people the Trentonian headlined this article with the pejorative 'tranny' ignoring the LGBT media guide ostensibly to rejoice in there good fortune.

Aaron Nobel's insidious intent.

The Trentonian's editor, Aaron Nobel knew it would be a win-win. He knew that a New Jersey newspapers story about transgender people in California would probably create little or no interest among his normal readership, and evidenced by it lack of recommendations, he was correct.

The Trentonian's editor is not ignorant about the harm he's doing.

Aaron Nobel knew this article would intense create controversy since this pejorative used once in the headline would elicit intense immediate condemnation from many trans activists, such as myself.

Aaron Nobel also knew this article would be indignantly self righteously defended by a majority of LGBT and hetero readers as well as our unrelenting foe, the predacious misogynists, because the remainder of the story was well written, celebratory and respectful.

As wonderfull as finding any job in these hard economic times are I have issues with this article because.....

The employees were slandered since none of transgender people interviewed specifically identified as a 'tranny'. The word 'tranny' was not used again in the article.

The headline suggests that 'trannies' would do very well to accept a minimum wage temporary retail job at a second hand store.

The title suggests that transgender people should be eternally grateful for and satisfied with menial jobs.

The title suggests a glass ceiling for transgender people, this being the most meaningful form of employment one could expect.

The majority of trans people detest this word as shown in a recent survey we strongly perfer it not to be used by cisgender media, gay or hetreo.

To put this into perspective.....

I am a transgender woman who last year after two years of unemployment found a temporary position in retail much as these woman have.

I have since been brought on permanent by this employer but survive at a pay rate 1/3 of the governments level for indigence.

I have been denied employment in the field I previously held since I transitioned. This retail job is NOT all I am capable of and I deeply resent this newspapers headline which suggests it is.

Merry Christmas Aaron Nobel.