Quote Originally Posted by noname View Post
This is no offense to the closet CD people here. But I would like to say, nothing will change until we take the same route the gay community did. They started comming out and being bold about it. They have done much of the groud work for us, with being gay becoming acceptable. They have definately worked hard for it as well.
The sad fact is that the "Gay Pride movement" began because Transgendered people were being arrested in New York, simply for being dressed in the opposite gender. Stonewall was both a significant place and the decisive time. In an attempt to "control" the gay population, the police raided gay bars, but targeted and arrested specifically the transgendered.



In a sense, the gay community did a smart thing by focusing on a single significant issue. Sadly, the opportunity for acceptance of transgendered persons who were on the news and in the papers protesting the harassment, was lost when the movement on some level was hijacked and the gender issue was once again given second class status, by the "community" and the press accepted blindly that transgenderism was a small component of the larger issue.

I guess sexuality sells, but gender doesn't.