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Recommended reading for those involved in queer activism: a potted history of the strained relations between the US HRC and the US trans community. An excerpt:

The marriage-as-a-priority gays refused to acknowledge that not only did their actions cause the backlash to gay marriage and possible gnerated enough conservative voters at the polls to help propel George W. Bush to a secord term, despite the evidence of dozens of state DOMAs and anti-marriage constitutional amendments, they are in severe denial about it.

Transpeople are also miffed at the lack of HRC concern as to how this backlash specifically affects our lives. Transpeople were never consulted and had no input whatsoever regarding the push for gay marriage, but the religious Right anti-gay marriage laws get interpreted by the courts in such a way that they had the negative affect in some cases of wiping out existing pro-trans marriage and even identity rights.

We're also pissed that the same people who demanded (and still demand) that we accept 'incremental progress' when it comes to trans rights hypocritically have no intention of accepting 'incremental progress' when it comes to legal recognition of same-sex relationships.