on being gwyneth

Subject: Norah Vincent’s editorial of 10/10/2000

To the editors of The Advocate -
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the best argument for the legitimacy of same-sex marriage is that there is no valid argument against it. every evil, every slippery slope with which it is associated in “debate” – polygamy, paraphilia, infidelity, lack of sanctity, etc. – descends just as regularly from heterosexual relationships as from homosexual. all the disengenuous tripe aside, the *only* real argument is whether our society is to be ruled by a conservative interpretation of certain religious doctrine.

which you would think answers itself.

“…some defense attorneys [use] it as catch-all characterization of a straight man’s revulsion at being on the receiving end of a gay man’s pass. Activists retort that if women were permitted the same leeway to violence when faced with unwelcome sexual advances, the world would have far fewer heterosexual men.

Why won’t Ohio let two nice fundamentalists get married?

issues in play here:

1) the real effects of DOMAs, which up to now have exclusively and consistently been used to destroy the legal marriages of trans people.

2) the completely conditional nature of a transperson’s gender, regardless of the paperwork they think might buy them security.

3) the fallacy of believing that one can be trans and continue to associate with traditional american christian institutions.

recall that a recent decision (which i am under constraint not to name) was supposed to establish the contrary precedent to ulane, rendering ts claims to sexual discrimination legitimate under title VII?

well, you can forget it:
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it would seem we now have conflicting precedents.

supreme court, anyone?
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so the trial of the men who murdered gwen araujo has ended in a hung jury. apparently at least one person on the panel found it conceivable that a drawn-out session of haranguing, beating and torture hours after the supposed “discovery” of her genital status could qualify as a “crime of passion.”

once in a while, i come across people who insist that they are “moderates” or “potential allies” with respect to my kind and the issues that we face, and that we should be something less than militant in our presentation of our grievances, lest we upset their delicate sensibilities.

god damn you. god damn you all to hell and the rest of this insane, homicidal culture whose revolting bigotry and self-satisfaction your sensitivities tacitly defend and support.

and may the sleep of those cringing fools who could hold out such a view of this crime be forever haunted.

remember that number, and this day, when in an act of almost unprecedented cowardice and bigotry, the US house of representatives passed a law designed to thwart the federal courts’ power to judge the constitutionality of federal law, all in the name of permanently eliminating the claim to full social and civil status of a significant portion of our own people.
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it’s not likely that more than a very few people reading this item will have any familiarity with, not only the issue directly addressed here, but also the backstory of politics and personalities involved. be that as it may, this is a fairly extraordinary document, and i think bears entering into the record:
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