surelly some mishtake march 31st in transgender visability day - who says? Surly its April 1st!
Just relied to a post doing the rounds on trans spaces

a quick summary for those who don't want to read the whole thing
If you took the transgender out of the LGB community all you would have left is a bunch of closeted or straight acting gay lesbian and bisexuals. DRAG is transgender, Butch women is transgender, femmme men is transgender, being camp is transgender, being visibly gay is transgender, challenging 'traditional' assumptions about gender is transgender

I would love to know who decided that march 31st was supposed to be transgender day of visibility, it should be april 1st. No really! It's a much better choice of day. I don't remember people discussing it with me.

Mind you I have only been loud (as opposed to stealth) since the eighties. I also been out. Yes OUT (and LOUD) and as much as i can be PROUD. That's because I like fish, you know fish, that word is often uttered so many times in lesbian and gay bars filled with men who think it should be men only. Yeah i'm a dyke!

Not that has stopped quite a few gay men trying to rape me over the years. well it was for my own good because all i needed was one good fuck by them and i would know i wanted in men and I would be saved from a fate worse than death - being a woman. Because so many gay men assumed that I really like cock, because I knew I was a girl who liked sex with other girls. That I looked like a man in the seventies and early eighties was good enough, that I said I was dyke, was just a lie.

But lets get finally to the heart of he issue Transgender visibility. The saddest thing about transgender visibility is you have no idea what transgender is. You think transgender is about transexuality. And apparently transexuality is about blokes getting their cocks cut off so they can be straight with their boyfriends, oh and dykes pretending to be men and marrying their girlfriends!

If you took the transgender out of the LGB community all you would have left is a bunch of closeted or straight acting gay lesbian and bisexuals. DRAG is transgender, Butch women is transgender, femmme men is transgender, being camp is transgender, being visibly gay is transgender, challenging 'traditional' assumptions about gender is transgender

thats by the way teh definition we used back in the mid nineties at PRIDE, when PRIDE woke up to the reality that Bisexuals and transgendre people HAD always been a part of PRIDE. it was in fact US who were willing to be LOUD on the street when so many gay men were hiding in their bars frightened to be OUT

It could have been me that stood up at your lecture and complained, it probably wasn't but it could have been. And yes I remember references to "my big hands" as "polite" way of saying "ooh I bet he's had his dick cut off". In the same way that faggot and shirt lifter are used so politely to refer to men "who like to have dick in their arse".

I remember being told by so many organisers that they didn't believe in all that PC crap, when i complained about non-inclusion. i was told that change took time and that we had to get everyone on board to get change. All the while complaining when ever anyone said that gays should not be in the military or that gays spread aids. Never realising the contradiction in what they said

Anyhow got to go, if you meet i'm the 6 foot 4 fat dyke who will when asked about her gender will answer - why do you need to know?