The Towlenut Gallery
Even when The Towle has a reasonable post on a trans issue – here, the Cemia Acoff murder – one can count on the Chorus du Transphobique to show what the entitled really believe that they have the right to do, namely to exclude, humiliate and discriminate against in precisely the same way that they expect Gay, Inc. to prevent themselves from being excluded, humiliated and discriminated against. David Hearne declares: A person is dead, and somebody has his panties in a knot because he doesn’t like the fact that the newspaper used male pronouns to refer to a male person? That’s some sense of priorities there. When Tyra Hunter was allowed to die in a DC Ambulance, pronouns were not the problem. An EMT that wouldn’t work on Tyra when he discovered that Tyra was male was the problem. So there can never be more than one problem? Well,
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Dated source evidence currently stored by the CollectiveAutumn Sandeen (@AutumnSandeen)
Via @transadvocate: The Towlenut Gallery http://t.co/MD5KU2N7T1 #trans #lgbtqia
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