8/29/13

District Judge: If Inmate Ophelia De’Lonta is transgender she is entitled to state funded SRS


Virginia transgender inmate Ophelia De’Lonta is a 'step closer'  to getting the medical treatment prescribed by the APA. A district Judge has ruled that Ms De’Lonta has the right to be diagnosed by a therapist of her choice and if the prognosis indicates she is transgender she has the right to get state funded gender confirmation surgery.



The APA  definition of transsexualism  published August 19th 2013 in their Healthy Minds blog:
"A transgender individual is someone with the desire to live and be accepted as a member of the opposite sex. This can be accompanied by the wish to make his or her body as congruent as possible with the preferred sex. A transsexual individual is someone who has taken measures, through surgery or hormone therapy, to achieve their desire of living and being accepted as a member of the opposite sex. In general, transgender individuals prefer to be addressed using pronouns and other culture norms that are congruent with their preferred gender identity.



"You want to be a woman? Don’t rob, don’t murder. Act like a lady"

There are some even within our community, who feel that if a trans person commits a crime she or he has lost the right to medical treatment. If Ophelia De’Lonta receives SRS it would further confirm our right to medical treatment and you will see a lot less commentary like the following video.




8/28/13

Video: Islan Nettles Vigil Draws hundreds

Vaughn Taylor-Akutagawa, the leader of Gay Men of African Descent, spoke at the vigil and referred to Nettles as "he."

"She was a woman!" shouted Mariah Lopez, a transgender activist who told The Huffington Post that she asked to speak at the vigil and was turned down by organizers. "Gay Men Of African Descent shouldn't be speaking for trans people, period."





Vaughn Taylor-Akutagawa, the leader of Gay Men of African Descent, spoke at the vigil and referred to Nettles as "he."

"She was a woman!" shouted Mariah Lopez, a transgender activist who told The Huffington Post that she asked to speak at the vigil and was turned down by organizers. "Gay Men Of African Descent shouldn't be speaking for trans people, period."

"My girlfriend died last year and the year before," Lopez continued, over the speaker on the stage. "And none of you came, none of you!"

Taylor-Akutagawa said on Wednesday that working with the transgender community at a vigil like this is "still a learning process for me."

"We do our best to include them, but what wasn't being effectively communicated yesterday is that the family determined who was going to speak, and why," he said.

Read more at Huffpost and Pix11.com


8/27/13

SB 323 a bill that strips tax exemption from Boy Scouts Little League and FFA to get final vote

A California bill that could strip tax-exempt status from Little League, the Boy Scouts of America and other “discriminatory” nonprofit youth-serving groups could come up for a final vote this week.

The first-of-its-kind bill, SB 323, passed the California Senate and sailed through Assembly committees to a floor vote, possibly this week.
But opponents are taking heart that there might not be enough votes in the state Assembly to pass the bill.



The chamber did not consider the bill in its Monday session, but may take it up when it convenes Friday.
The bill, introduced by State Sen. Ricardo Lara, names the Boy Scouts, Little League, Future Farmers of America and 19 other organizations as examples of groups that could be stripped of their tax-exempt status if found to discriminate based on gender identity, sexual orientation, nationality, race, religion or religious affiliation.

The measure also threatens tax-exempt status for public and private schools found to sponsor discriminatory youth groups. One critic said it could even threaten an exemption status held by a church.
“Traditional values regarding heterosexuality are being branded as the legal equivalent of racism, and so there’s the quite genuine fear that the tax code really is the battleground against the traditional churches,” said Alan Reinach, executive director of Church State Council, which opposes SB 323.

Read more: Washington Times

This bill ( SB 323 leginfo.ca.gov) would revise the Sales and Use Tax Law exemption for those
organizations, as provided. This bill would also provide that an
organization that is a public charity youth organization that discriminates
on the basis of gender identity, race, sexual orientation, nationality,
religion, or religious affiliation is not exempt from the taxes imposed
by that law.

The right wings worst nightmare


Transgender woman are being slaughtered at a rate 50X that of LGB people

Walk late at night. Go to night clubs. Take the bus. Live in a apartment. Walk across the street.Being black and transgender. Any of this puts a target on a person's back if that person is trans .

8/25/13

Dantjier Powell, your Dad needs you to turn yourself in. Please.

Loueadry Powell makes a heart wrenching plea for his son to come home and turn himself in.
Dantjier Powell disappeared after transgender woman 
Domonique Newburn was found murdered.
Dantjier if you read this, please turn yourself in before law enforcement is forced to act.

You loved 
Domonique, there is no shame in that.
More at KTLA 



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DR Judy Meissner comment on planetransgender caused me to detransition?


Yesterday Los Angeles doctor of psychology Judy Meissner commented (posted below) on the post "Counter the Christian Family Coalition's Miami Dade Anti Trans Hate Tactics.

Basically she said  I was insane to falsely, freely disregard and openly misrepresent my biological sex.
 

Meissner's blogger profile  (click to enlarge) 
identifies her as therapist from Los Angeles and a director of the of the "International Center for the Study of Aberrosexualism (ICSA), an organization of mental health professionals dedicated to the research of biologically aberrant sexual behavior and practices, or aberrosexualism, and other psico-sexual phenomema."

Dr. Meissner's words were heart breaking! To know that a California certified therapist would tell me in essentially I was insane broke my spirit. How could I believe that I am transgender and not suffering from narcissistic psychotic self delusion after reading her comment?

I mean after all she's not just a California (Licensed presumably) therapist but a Master of Public Health (MPH) as well!

Who could argue with those credentials. Wanting to find some way to express my appreciation I decided to learn about Dr. Meissner first, so I googled her.

All I got in return was a litany of like comments by her deriding marriage equality, gay rights conflating constitutional rights with theocacy and deriding transsexualism.

OK, I so tried to find the web address for her 'estemed' group "International Center for the Study of Aberrosexualism (ICSA), but google, even DOG PILE came back with nothing even remotely resembling credentials or authenticity. Not even a web address. Nothing.



DID I BECOME A MAN AGAIN BECAUSE OF A WACK JOB?

Well no, I didn't detransition because
 a) I am a woman and
 b)  just a tad to cynical.

 so here are the rest of my search results.

I couldn't find ether Dr. Judy Meissner or her group on LinkedIN, White pages, Yellow Pages and Guidestar does not list the "International Center for the Study of Aberrosexualism (ICSA)"

Dr. Judy Meissner is not listed with the California Psychological Association but here's the clincher.
Dr. Judy Meissner is not  licenced in the state of California to practice psychotherapy. She would have to be licenced by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences, which she is not.  

I'm not saying she hasn't earned degrees, there are few resources to check on that.

What I am saying isthat  her opinions as a 'doctor' of psychotherapy are without empirical truth and are diametrically opposed to WAPTH and The American Psychiatric Association regarding transsexualism and homosexuality. In fact she sounds more like a TERF and they ARE certified transphobic WACK JOBS suffering from schizophrenia delusional disorder.


So here, for you're viewing pleasure is the comment made by Dr. Judy Meissner on the post 
"Counter the Christian Family Coalition's Miami Dade Anti Trans Hate Tactics:


1 comment:


Dr. Judy Meissner said...
WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE! Objectively speaking, a human being’s sex, age, color, race, and ethnicity, or biological ancestry, among many other personal traits, are not up to them to arbitrarily decide; they are not based on a personal opinion, private fantasy or subjective perception. Sex is a precisely determinable genetic fact. It is a scientifically demonstrable biological reality. As such, like it or not, sex can never be altered or changed. While an individual's physical appearance can be cosmetically changed or modified, or they can change their personal opinion as to their sex; their DNA, or chromosomes, can never be altered. Gender Identity” and “Gender Expression” are non-scientific, ideological terms, i.e., terms specifically concocted to advance an ideology. Neither term is scientifically demonstrable, genetically verifiable, nor an objectively definable biological reality. Both terms are difficult if not impossible to scientifically interpret and define. It is contrary to sound public policy to recognize or grant an individual the false “right” to freely disregard and openly misrepresent their biological sex because this will thereafter recognize and grant the false “right” of individuals to disregard and misrepresent their age, race, ethnicity, or any other biological realities. SAVE Dade: You need to understand that there is no constitutional or rational right to demand that society accept my sexual fantasies, my personal opinions or my subjective ‘feelings’ about whether I’m a man or a woman! This ordinance has absolutely nothing to do with civil rights. It is simply an excuse to unjustly discriminate. You’re not advocating equality, your pushing insanity! Deal with it, sisters. You need to turn the page!



So...the next time you see a comment by this person you'll know who you are dealing with.

Have a nice day Judy.

You're trans sister,
kelli anne Busey