[Blog/Commentary] [USA] The Line is Hereby Drawn…
Stephanie Stevens
The Line is Hereby Drawn…
January 17, 2012
Posted by Katrina Rose
..back to the trans-exterminationists.
Now, we all know who Nikki Araguz is. She has a valid case regarding
her marriage and legal sex status – though as that case is moving up
the appellate food chain in Texas she, unfortunately, has engaged in
some shenanigans that, though they’ll never be cited by Rick
Perry-approved judges to do so, may rip religionist defeat from the
jaws of legal victory.
Assuming for purposes of argument that the charge underlying her
current stay in the Harris County, Texas, jail is a valid one, one key
aspect of the stay is not
<http://www.change.org/petitions/harris-county-jail-use-nikki-arraguzs-legal-name-and-gender?mid=57>
:
Nikki Arraguz is a post-operative transgender [Note: I think she
identifies as transsexual; I'm not into the shit-flinging that those
who think they're too pretty to ever have to deal with reality tend to
engage in, but there is indeed a difference] woman being held in the
Harris County Jail for being minutes late on making a court
appearance. She was booked under the male name Justin Purdue, even
though her name is legally Nikki Arraguz, and she is segregated by her
choice from the other prisoners.
The use of an old legally non-existent name and gender is
preposterous. It is disrespectful and apparently meant to be
intimidating. If Harris County Jail can’t use her real name, they need
to let her go, instead of engaging in humiliating and dangerous
exposure.
The number of transgender women that get sexually abused in such
facilities is higher than any other group. By assigning Nikki a
cross-gender identification, she is being put at risk.She should
restored her full legal name and treated in accordance with her female
gender.
That comes from a change.org petition site, but the key aspect seems
to be validated by the person updating her Facebook page:
[Image <http://bit.ly/At8YBY> ]
Sadly, the Harris County Prison Industrial Complex has Littleton v.
Prange to hang its hat on if it wants to get shitty about her sex
status (though, if the Facebook page is accurate, she’s doing the seg
route for her own protection), but where do they get the cojones to
decide what her legal name is?
I hereby draw the line from this back to the trans-exterminationists.
All of them.
All who attempt to decide for the world who we are.
All of them.
Not just the overly-privileged, corporatist psychopaths (one of whom
may be trans herself; she still seems unwilling to address the very
valid question) who prance around pretending to have a legitimate
connection to the concept of feminism and who have engaged in the
latest round of what, today, is in reality Gay (Male), Inc.’s
politico-cultural dirty work (work that has seemingly gotten to be
even too dirty for St. Barney) aided by some actual trans people who
are poster children for Stockholm Syndrome but back a bit further to
The Dredge and Michael Bailey – both oh-so-well-professed
heterosexuals (wink, wink) – and back beyond that to ‘right wing
lesbian’ Beren DeMotier and further back beyond that to the first
generation of trans-exterminationists: the Mary Dalys, the Janice
Raymonds, the Alix Dobkins, the Victoria Brownworths and the ones who
have managed to manufacture rehabilitation for themselves to the point
where they now must be presumed to be fifth columns when they say they
give a damn about trans lives
<http://www.transadvocate.com/radical-lesbian-separatism-in-lgbt-activism-hyding-in-plain-sight.htm>
.
All of them.
Individually and collectively, personally and professionally.
All of them.
J’Accuse!
http://endablog.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/the-line-is-hereby-drawn/