It's Not Cool To Make Jokes About Transgendered People On DU

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Before you ask me to provide proof it's against DU rules to call out individual posters and link locked threads...

And, no, it's not faux outrage...Bigotry is bigorty regardless of the target...I'm sure Gwen Araujo, Barry Winchell, and Brandon Teena didn't think bigotry toward transgendered people was funny...

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. Sure.

However, I haven't got a problem with making fun of trolls who exploit transgender issues to attack democrats like Kennedy, or Obama.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. Your Logic Is Flawed

If one person who may or not be transgendered acts a fools it's not o k to disrespect and make fun out of all of them...

[NJSecularist]

4. Who did?

With all due respect, you're generalizing and you are trying to create a strawman argument for something that didn't occur.

[NJSecularist]

3. Transgendered people are not immune from getting called out when they take a partisan swipe

at a very good senator because of his connections to Barack Obama.

Senator Kennedy has been the leading senator in regards to LGBT rights for a few decades. Taking a swipe at him to take a swipe at Obama is uncalled for.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

5. The Threads And Posts I Saw Attacked Transgendered Persons, Per Se

They didn't attack individual transgendered persons ...

I don't think suggesting a transgendered person not knowing what gender to put down on the DU registration is funny...

From personal experience none of my tg friends would have a problem with it...

[shain from kane]

6. DU made a lotta fun of Guiliani(?) dressed as a woman. Does that count, or was it acceptable?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

8. I Would Recommend

Respectfully, I would recommend taking some courses on Human Sexuality to learn the difference between someone who puts on woman's clothes for shit and kicks and a person who identifies with the gender other than he or she was born...

Maybe some of our transgendered friends on the site can help you out...

[shain from kane]

12. Thanks, you answered my question. I found out it was acceptable.

[tishaLA]

10. Honestly...you're clueless

[DemocratSinceBirth]

11. Maybe He's Just Not Aware Or Informed

But I have seen deliberately insensitive posts and threads which received lots of kudos...

[Red Zelda]

7. One thread was laced with profanity

and it mostly all came from the TG person, apparently. Is that OK?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

9. Of Course Not

But neither is suggesting a transgendered person doesn't know what gender to put down on his or her DU registration...

[Debi]

13. I haven't made a joke about transgendered people - I did comment that a DU poster

needed a break after a 'fuck you' fest in another thread.