fill the glow

baxtavius:

janetmock:

When I was 14, I was excited to stay the night at a classmate’s birthday party. This sleepover was all the freshman girls were talking about at school for months and I got an invite because I let Julie look over my shoulder during social studies pop quizzes.

With my pillow and pajamas packed, I arrived at her door amped to enjoy my very first girls’ night out and show off my new Tamagotchi pet. We stuffed our faces with pizza and played rounds of Truth or Dare and Would You Rather and MASH (Mansion, Apartment, Shack, House).

We were girls. Innocent, silly, obsessed with Rose and Jack, and slightly bitchy at our meanest. Then my friend’s mother called the birthday girl into the kitchen. As I was brushing my teeth and readying for bed with my gal pals, Julie tapped me on the shoulder.

“I’m sorry but my mom doesn’t get it,” she started. “She said only girls can sleepover.”

“I totally get it,” I said with my best smile because it wasn’t my party and I couldn’t cry if I wanted to.

It was my first reminder as a trans girl that just when I think I’m having fun being me, me isn’t always understood. I could be called out because of my genitals, made to feel less than because of our society’s limited perspective on gender and told to leave a friend’s party because of the separation we’ve built around gender identity, expression and its blurriness with sexual orientation. It was as if the mere presence of my tucked weewee under my Keroppi PJs was a danger to the other girls around me.

This is what I was reminded of when I saw 14-year-old Girl Scout “Taylor” urging a boycott of Girl Scouts Cookies on YouTube because the organization is inclusive of transgender girls. Taylor, who read from a script most likely created by passionate adults from HonestGirlScouts.com, claims safety as an issue, cites bathroom-use hysteria and discomfort in regards to sleepover arrangements. She confuses sexual orientation with gender identity throughout her video and goes as far as misgendering transgender girls as “transgender boys.”

READ entire post at JanetMock.com

Today on “FUCK THIS BITCH” … fuck this bitch

yeah, I saw this earlier this afternoon.  The saddest part is that the girl in the video just doesn’t get it.  But she also hasn’t made an effort to get it, which is a true tragedy.  I watched the video and it was highly upsetting, and I even visited the website (which has some inaccuracies to say the least *see below*).  Right on the front page there’s a link urging people to send a pre-typed email to the Chief Executive of the Girl Scouts of America through the American Family Association’s website.  However, I was going to use the information on the page to write a letter of support for her forward thinking and inclusiveness from an LGBT advocate.

Here’s the information on the page if you’d like to do the same, just to let her know that there are plenty of people who support equality and understanding (especially for the Girl Scouts of America, which is an organization that was designed to encourage character, citizenship, compassion, and courage). 

Anna Maria Chávez, Chief Executive 
Girl Scouts of the USA 
420 5th Avenue
New York, NY  10018-2798 
Phone: 1-800-478-7248
E-Mail: Anna Maria Chávez, Girl Scouts of the USA  

ALSO, Girl Scouts of America is being bashed for being supportive of Planned Parenthood, which I don’t understand since both are organizations that support women.  But, that’s a whole different rant.  Just take action in some way.  If we don’t make some noise and educate young people like this, or at least make ourselves be heard by someone, we can’t expect this hateful climate to change.

Some inaccuracies I found on the website:
Right on the front page, on the right hand side, there are some “definitions”.  These include…

• Accessible= without parental knowledge or consent 
  ACTUALLY, accessible means pretty much the exact opposite.  Basically I think we can all agree that accessible means available or obtainable.
• Inclusive= gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, transgender, intersex
  ACTUALLY, this too means something a bit different.  To be inclusive does not mean to single out a group.  Inclusiveness is not just, and should not be, only associate with a single group.
• Emergency contraception=abortion
  ACTUALLY, emergency contraception helps a woman not become pregnant.  It keeps a woman from releasing eggs which helps to prevent pregnancy from occurring. 

(there were a few other definitions that I’m not even touching or this post will just be too damn long because I’ll lose my cool)