Shut Up Fool Awards-Houston's Hot Edition

It's been a little warmer than normal for early June here in H-town.   The week began with back to back record 105 degree F days on Sunday and Monday, but cooled down to just a mere 95 degrees F high yesterday.

The predicted H-Town temperature for today is only 92 degrees F, so it's dropping back down to the temps we normally see for this time of year (thank God).  I'm already cognizant of the fact that June 21 hasn't arrived yet, and neither has the month of August when we usually get our triple digit temps.      

That's okay, as long as I have plenty of Blue Bell in the freezer in my favorite flavors, I'll be alright

It's Friday, and y'all know what time it is.   It's time once again to discover who is going to be our Shut Up Fool Award winner for this week. 

As always, we had a bumper crop of fools across the political spectrum this week.   Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, Rep Paul Ryan (R-WI), Rep Eric Cantor (R-VA)  Herman Cain, Rick Santorum,  Rep Anthony Weiner (D-NY), a Fox Noise group award, a group award for the Transsexual Taliban, and the blogger RIPPA.

Honorable mention this week goes to comedian Tracy Morgan for his June 3 comedy routine in Nashville, TN that bombed big time when he went on a homophobic tirade onstage with Truth Wins Out's Kevin Rogers in the audience.   Morgan reportedly slammed President Obama for supporting the LGBT community, called homosexuality a choice, and even threatened to stab his own son to death if he ever came home from school and told his father he was gay. 


When the audience tuned on him, Morgan remarked, "If gays can take a dick up their ass, they can take a joke.”

But this week's award goes to Wanda Sykes, who said during a recent interview with Piers Morgan it's harder to be gay than Black.

 “I’m not talking about the history of black people, of African Americans. I’m talking about at this point right now… I don’t know of organizations and groups like Focus on the Family and such anti-gay organizations who are putting up so much money – millions and millions of dollars – into stopping me from, you know, being black or telling me I can’t exercise my blackness,"

 To quote Maya Wilkes, Oh Hell No! 

Did you forget about the Republican Party and the same conservafool moment are also spending millions of dollars to steal elections, roll back the civil rights progress we fought, marched and died for and love oppressing Black people be they straight, gay, cis or trans?

What you said was another one of the problematic anti-Black statements you've made since you came out, and it's already being seized on by gays wishing to pimp the BS 'Blacks are uniquely homophobic meme.'


Wanda Sykes, shut the HELL up  fool!

It Gets Better-Andii Viveros

She refers to herself by her soon to be old male name since the name change is reportedly in the works to Andrea, but Florida's first trans prom queen Andii Viveros  does an It Gets Better video.

2011 Williams Watch-Big Sis And Little Sis Are Going To Play Some Tennis

Can I call it or what?    When I penned my last Williams watch post concerning the French Open  I had this to say about the prospects of seeing my favorite tennis playing siblings take the court this season: 

'If I had to guess when the Williams sisters plan on making their return to the tennis world, I'd circle June 20 on the calendar.    That's the starting date for their favorite Grand Slam tournament, 'Williams'-don'.    TransGriot   May 17, 2011

Read it and weep tennis world.  Playtime in the women's tennis world is over.  Break out the strawberries and cream, Serena and Venus are coming back.. 

Serena hasn't played since stepping on glass at a Munich restaurant four days after winning the 2010 'Williams'-don tournament and slicing two tendons in her foot.   She underwent two surgeries on that foot, and then was hospitalized in February for a hematoma in her stomach an a pulmonary embolism. 

Her ranking has slid to number 25 in the world since then, but knowing her it won't take her long to get back into the Top Ten.  . 

Venus hasn't played since injuring her hip during the 2011 Australian Open, but is on track to play at Wimbledon as well. 

I call The Championships 'Williams-don because out of all the Grand Slam tournaments, this is the one they have throughly dominated.   They have won nine of the last eleven singles titles and played each other four times for the Venus (Williams) Rosewater Dish.      


They are set to play the Eastbourne grass court tournament that precedes the start of Wimbledon, which begins on June 20-July 3.

Focus On What's Above The Waist, Not Below It

One of the things I keep hearing from elements of the community in this 'transsexual vs transgender' word semantic fight that bother me from the folks on the 'transsexual uber alles' side of it is commentary laced with the foul smell of internalized transphobia and homophobia.

I've heard and read comments viciously tearing into crossdressers and people expressing their 'ick' factors about pre-op and non op transwomen to the point it makes me wonder if I'm on some right wing website instead of a so called liberal-progressive one and I'm tired of it.

News flash.  Your gender ID is between your ears and how you express it predominately takes place above your waist, not below it.

People outside and inside the trans community need to grow the hell up and focus on what's above the waist rather than what's below it.  The only people who are going to see the genitalia you spent $10K or more surgically acquiring between your legs is you, your various doctors and the person you're getting intimate with.

Since I'm on the let's get real track, might as well continue riding this train to the next station.

With all due respect to 'errbody' on whatever side of this contentious debate you're on, at the start of our transitions, no matter how you try to slice it, we are all considered CD's in the early phase of it until our bodies morph into a more feminine form by people outside our community and society at large.   We know we're trans, but our detractors disrespectfully don't care.

Just as you trans uber alles peeps don't want society or people making broad brush assumptions about you as a transwoman, neither should you be doing the same generalizing about CD's.   They come in all shapes, sizes and flavors just like we do from not being able to pass in a Kentucky coal mine at midnight to drop dead gorgeous feminine presentations.  

I knew CD's back in the day in which the only time they were in 'male mode' was at work and the rest of the time they were en femme.  There were CD's I was aware of who were on various dosage levels of hormones as they tried to find the right time to transition.

And as for transwomen with neoclits, don't even go there.   If you ain't planning to keep yours or sleep with a transwoman who has one, why is it your business or why should you care who does and what they do with it, much less frack with them?    As long as it ain't affecting you, what people do behind closed bedroom doors and how they do it as long as it's legal and between two consenting adults ain't our business.

Some of the best activists in this community doing the work to advance everyone's civil rights are those 'icky' pre-op and non-op people some of you irrationally hate on.

Carla Antonelli, one of 'those transwomen' some of you have a problem with is responsible for doing the hard work and activism that helped all Spanish transsexuals gain the civil and legal rights they enjoy now.   

In addition to creating a website that was one of the first to portray transwomen in a positive light and was the inspiration for Dr. Lynn Conway's TS Successes, she drafted the Gender Identity Law and threatened to go on a hunger strike until it was passed in 2007.while Charlotte Goiar and friends were hatin' on her.

So y'all wanna keep chomping on the debunked HBS hater tots, be my guest.

Ahem, as I stated earlier, it's time for trans people to focus on what's ABOVE the waist, not what's below it.

We have real enemies that hate us.   There are alleged faith based hate groups opposing any trans civil rights legislation that will make our lives easier.   We have oppressive GOP legislators such as Ken Fredette and friends writing unjust bills that attempt to make our lives harder.  

It's past time we started turning that fury and animus on them and not on each other.