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Wednesday, April 09, 2008

Toon: A Few Reasons Why (We Need a Transgender Rights Bill)


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We need it NOW. Or yesterday, preferably.

Labels: cartoons, cwa, LGBT, transgender

posted by Mikhaela Reid at 6:49 PM

10 Comments:

Blogger Kevin Moore said...

The guy in the last panel looks like he is checking out the transgendered woman's chest. Which has a fitting subtext, whether intended or not.

7:18 PM  
Blogger Mikhaela Reid said...

weird, that wasn't intended! but maybe it does have that effect. weird!

11:17 PM  
Blogger Marti said...

If you'd like...I'm interested in running this on Transadvocate.com...with full love, adulation, and proper credit...of course :)

If you're interested, email me... marti.abernathey@gmail.com

6:56 AM  
Blogger Allyson Dylan Robinson said...

Thank you, Mikhaela. This rocks!

What really sucks is that I can put real faces to each of the people in the panels, including the guy in the last one.

10:10 AM  
Blogger Mikhaela Reid said...

Thanks Ally and others. The folks in the first three panels are total bigoted assholes, but it's the dude in the last panel--who I was sort of implying to be a transphobic gay person--who gets my goat in a particular fashion. Blech.

12:01 PM  
Blogger Jenna said...

I just found your web page/blog, and surfed through for a while, and decided, "you rock!"

10:36 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I firmly believe in leaving transgender issues out of the current "gay bill of rights." Why? Because you've got to feed tolerance to most of America in small doses. Perhaps enough of 'morica is just becoming comfortable enough with gays to say, "ok, fine go get married, queer" but if you try to attach transgender rights to it, no one's going to go for it. The neocons didn't come to power suddenly. They did it in baby steps starting way back with Nixon, and we have to take back the concept of liberty and individual rights back in baby steps.

7:28 PM  
Blogger dr rubberbiker said...

Oh...dear.....We have equal rights in Canada....adoption, marriage,spousal rights etc.So "world leader" get with liberty and honest equality for Americans !
Vote for a Democratic person and get equality down there eh ? Peter.

10:23 AM  
Blogger Mikhaela Reid said...

Evren, I understand your concerns but I disagree. Transgender rights legislation cannot wait. There are far too many people facing brutal and pervasive--and PERFECTLY LEGAL--discrimination and abuse based on gender identity, and we cannot be patient about something so urgent. Rights movements don't win by patiently waiting for the mainstream to slowly possibly maybe decide to grant rights--sometimes you've got to demand your rights.

10:44 AM  
Anonymous Sam Orchard said...

Hey, I stumbled across this strip - here: http://fuckyeahftms.tumblr.com/post/598712654/via-xyxrebellion it had been reposted on a number of tumblrs. I just wanted to say that your strips (including this one) are awesome. Yay for new comics to read :) thanks heaps

10:50 PM  

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