Friday, February 29, 2008

When it comes to bashing transgender people, there's a right wing tradition at work - and it's not about values...

The right wingers at the Traditional Values Coalition just can't seem to get enough of demonizing and making personal attacks on members of the GLBT community.
Just this week, they fired off another one of their wacky and mean-spirited
press releases aimed at the GLBT community. This one accuses Dana Beyer, a transgender activist (and one of HRC's Board of Governors, BTW) of harassment when she confronts anti-gay petition gatherers working to overturn the brand new Montgomery County trans anti-discrimination law in Maryland. They also posted a YouTube video of one of the "harassing" incidents - just don't blink if you watch it or you just might miss the moment that's got the right wingers all in a tizzy.
One thing's for sure: the peeps at TVC are much better at spewing out anti-gay hatred than they are at truthfully presenting the facts or tackling real problems, like speaking out aggressively against the recent explosion of anti-GLBT hate
crimes.
Candace Gingrich, our senior youth outreach manager (pictured below), takes them to task on their latest antics in this guest post:
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