Disturbing Youtube Videos

Recently I found a very disturbing Youtube vlogger that is creating waves amongst viewers.  This vlogger is a proud butch lesbian who calls herself DirtyWhiteBoi67.  I am very excited at the aspect of a loud and proud advocate for the butch community, but what infuriates me is her demoralization of the transgender community.  She does not seem to address transwoman, but she constantly attacks transmen.  She believes that all transmen are really just butch lesbians that have been shamed by society into believing that they should be men.  She constantly remarks that transmen hate their bodies, are depressed, need to embrace their femaleness, are not feminists, and can never truly transition or be happy as men when they do transition.  I am deeply saddened by how many people praise her as a great advocate for the LGB (not T) community and encourage her to continue spreading her message.  It's hard to accept that a person who has personal experience with being marginalized and told that their lifestyle is not valid would turn around and do this to others.  Her bigoted views stem from traumatic personal experiences with hating her own body and being told constantly that only a man can be with a woman.  I feel deeply sympathetic to her struggles but I feel that her energies are misdirected into trying to make everyone like her instead of accepting that all people are different and have different experiences and have different goals for their lives.
One Youtube post particularly inflames my rage as it promotes violence.  I don't know if this title is supposed to be symbolic, but even if it is I don't think the general public will understand that.  It's called "Death to Female Id'd Butch Women."  Again, I don't fully understand the title because her problem is not with female butches but with Transmen.  Regardless of her purpose behind it, it is an overtly violent title that is promoting hatred of the LGBT community and advocating murder.  The video itself is a rant about how much she hates transmen and thinks they are disgusting and how she thinks they are promoting a male centric misogynistic America.  I was so upset by the vile nature of this post that I reported it to Youtube in an effort to get it removed from the site.  This is what I wrote:
Issue reported:

Hateful or abusive content > Promotes hatred or violence

Additional details:

The title itself is calling for the death of marginalized individuals. The video is about how much the vlogger thinks transgendered women are disgusting. Trans persons are bullied outcasts who have been killed just for being themselves. Videos like these only spread the hate and encourage the crime. Please stand up for the LGBTQ community and remove this video so no one else can be negatively affected by it's disturbing message.

Please follow the link below so that you can see the video for yourself and draw your own conclusions, but I urge you that if you feel the same as I do then please report this video.  We should be advocating love, acceptance, and equality for all and it is counterproductive to allow bigoted, hateful messages to be spread to the public.  Videos like these only make young trans people afraid to be themselves and non-trans people to have a skewed and distorted view of what trans is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAQjGl6TWtw

The Christmas Season and My Quest for Answers

During this Christmas season I started to think a lot about religion; how it is incorporated into our daily lives, how we perceive it, and how we use it to judge others.  It is our greatest foundation for our moral compass, but it is also the root of much bigotry, fear, and intolerance.  Why, in a book that features the word love more times than a romance novel, do we imagine such a hateful message.
Of course I am speaking from the standpoint of a transgendered person, an idea that the Christian church would not uphold.  There are a few exceptions and some progressive churches but I am speaking about the collective majority.  In their eyes I am merely a confused, lost woman seeking solace in the sinful pleasures of lesbianism.
Therefore, I have made it one of my New Year's resolutions to explore Christian views of homosexuality.  In my search I will explore where exactly it is that the Bible condemns homosexuality, if transgender persons are mentioned, and what the Bible verses actually mean.
Will I find that homosexuality is truly a sin according to the Bible?  I hope not.  I hope that I find love and acceptance for all God's children as I have heard so much before.  I pray that scripture has been misconstrued and misinterpreted and that I can, in my own small way, help to bridge the gap between the gay and straight communities.
Either way, I still want to wish you a Merry Christmas (or a Happy Holiday at least) and a Happy New Year!

Duck Dynasty, A&E, and Free Speech

I have already posted a youtube video on this issue, which can be found here:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4TqRHz5yBw, but I really wanted to go further in articulating my ideas.

If you don't know I will give you a quick recap of what happened.  Phil Robertson, who is the patriarch of the reality hit show Duck Dynasty and the founder of the Duck Commander company that started his fame and gave rise to the show, recently had an interview with GQ Magazine.  In that interview he mostly talked about his religion and beliefs and made several homophobic and racist remarks.  This ultimately resulted in A&E indefinitely suspending him from the show which is aired on their network.

And this is where the ish hits the fan, or maybe where the fans start throwing the ish.  Either way, the internet has been blowing up with fans, religious fanatics, and even politicians chanting that Phil's right to free speech has been impeded upon.  This caused an equally large outcry from equal rights activists stating their support for the networks decision.

I would personally like to say that I find it laughably ironic that we are arguing over the right of free speech given that the man is in trouble because he used a platform of communication to preach his ideas to the world.  Maybe I should be trying to find out who is impeding upon my right to free speech since I'm still stuck communicating through a blog!  All jokes aside, Phil was given an opportunity to say anything and everything he wanted and he took it.  He isn't done either!  Just today I heard of a new story on Eonline where he said that he "Will not give or back off."  It's plain to see that no one has imprisoned him or forced him off the media for his statements, which is for what the freedom of speech was created.  So Sarah Palin, maybe you want to brush up on your history and law before you go around giving speeches!

What the freedom of speech does not allow you is a get out of jail free card, meaning it can not abolish the effects of your words.  For every action there is a reaction and no one can precisely predict what that will be and no one can promise that you will be safe from the effects of the reaction.  When Phil decided to say what he said in GQ he knew that he was in direct opposition of A&E.  He even fumed about how A&E wouldn't let him talk about his religious views on the show and went on to say that he intended to make good use of his time with GQ and say everything he couldn't on A&E.  Again, this is not an infringement on his rights, this is censorship, no different than when a cuss word is bleeped out of a broadcast.  Since A&E is a very progressive company and they openly support equal rights activism they could not in good conscience continue to support Phil Robertson or they would in essence be supporting his bigoted views.  As one of this country's global platforms by which we are represented and which many people look to for clues on how to think, feel, and act they felt it was their civic duty to stand against bigotry and make a public statement about love, acceptance, support, and tolerance.
Which leads me to what I think is the real question, why would Phil Robertson sign on with a network that is in direct opposition of his views and beliefs?