Washington Times' Transphobic Editorial

[The Philosopher]

Wash. Times Posts Transphobic Editorial, Rails Against Transgender People’s “Radical Agenda”
from Equality Matters

The Washington Times published an editorial Monday questioning transgender people’s sanity, calling them “mixed-up patient(s)” and warning of their “radical agenda.” The editorial criticizes transgender plaintiffs suing the city of New York in order to change the gender listed on their birth certificates.

The piece frequently attempts to paint transgender people as being as crazy, suggesting that “perhaps these people are just messed up”:

Practically speaking, none of the scientific (or pseudo-scientific) mumbo-jumbo matters too much, however, because self-identified transgenders and their allies are finding success for their radical agenda by merely asserting that it’s a medical condition and going forward with counseling for “transition” (purportedly becoming the opposite gender) and radical surgery to “correct” their organs and sex characteristics. There is no more debate over the possibility that perhaps these people are just messed up.

The editorial also refers to transgender people seeking gender reassignment surgery as “mixed up patient(s)” seeking to “surgically mutilate” their bodies:

Let’s leave alone, for the time being, the question of whether supporting and reinforcing a mixed-up patient’s desire to surgically mutilate his (or her) body to resemble a unique perception of “becoming” the opposite sex is “appropriate” treatment. No matter what, official government identification documents should not be changed to accommodate the feelings of any group. “I would just like my identification to reflect who I am,” “Patricia” Harrington, who was born a man, said at a press conference on the lawsuits.

http://equalitymatters.org/blog/201104050011">Click Here To Read More

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/apr/4/the-latest-birth-certificate-scandal/">Click Here For the Actual Washington Times Editorial

[enlightenment]

1. Nice that whoever wrote that can hide behind the

anonymity of "editorial".

I'll vote for Brett Decker - the so-called 'editorial editor' at the Moonie Times. He's a nasty piece of work.

[TheWraith]

2. I'll be more shocked the day the Wash Times DOESN'T say something horrifying.

I love how they anonymize their editorials, so there's no way to hold anyone accountable for what they say. You can be one step shy of saying transfolk should be in the loony bin, and never have to worry about anyone actually calling you on it. :eyes:

[RetiredTrotskyite]

4. Cowards.

But then people with that mentality often are cowards.

[RetiredTrotskyite]

3. OMG All th Bigots' Talking Points.

Yep, that is defeinitely transphobic and definitely effed up.