I’m delinking Americablog.  Here’s why.

Your argument boils down to the assertion that America really does accept transgendered people far more than I’m willing to realize and therefore we’d have no problem passing a trans-inclusive ENDA. Great. I’m game. Show me the votes. Show me that you have the votes to pass a trans-inclusive ENDA, that the bill won’t go down in flames, that Democrats won’t be forced en masse to vote in favor of some hideously anti-trans amendment lest they lose their jobs next election, and I’m there for you. You think this is some easy game, that we actually have the votes, but some of us simply don’t like you and find you icky and that’s why we’re concerned. Fine, then I’ll call your bluff. I adore you. Now prove to me that you have the votes to pass ENDA and that your strategy won’t kill this legislation for the next two decades, and you have my support. You have two weeks, which should be ample time considering all of us are lying about there not being enough votes to pass ENDA with trans inclusion.

This is sickening.  No John, you don’t "adore" the transgendered.  And reading this unmitigated bullshit you call a response I don’t think you even see human beings when you look at them, let alone people who are your neighbors.  They’re speed bumps on the road to your place at the table is all they are.  Your place at the table.  Not ours, everyone’s.  Your EDNA is a classified ad reading "No fems, freaks or fatties".  Your EDNA is an gay nightclub with a doorman that keeps out all the uncool people.  Your EDNA is a circuit party for a-listers only.  And that’s your America too, isn’t it John?  Why the fuck are you even bothering to call yourself a democrat?

Nothing worse in this poor world then a moron without a conscience, and you’re case in point aren’t you?  Prove to You that the votes are there to pass a trans-inclusive ENDA…did you say?  How about you prove the votes are there get one actually enacted into law.  Bush is going to veto it, the republicans are going to uphold it, and you and every other braying inside the beltway jackass fucking knows that.  If anyone is committing political theater here John, it’s you.  And oh that it was meaningless.  You’re proving not just to the transgendered community, but to all our heterosexual friends, people who have stood at our side, often at great personal cost, that we are as cheap, petty and insular as the homophobic bigots who are the reason we need EDNA.  You’re proving to our straight allies that our struggle isn’t about anything more noble and righteous then getting ours, even if we have to put an elbow in the side of a few friends along the way.  You’re proving to them that we really are the self absorbed, narcissistic, vainglorious pricks the religious right keeps saying we are.

I’m 54 years old, and I have been fired many times for being gay, back when doing that to gay people was utterly unremarkable.  I think I know a thing or two about what it’s like to have to live and work and try to fucking earn a living under those conditions.  My lifetime income when all is said and done and my body is laid to rest, will probably work out to around half what it would have been had I simply been more attracted to girls then guys.  I’ve had employers tell me to my face that I was being let go because there wasn’t any place for homosexuals in their company.  I’ve had them make pathetic excuses for letting me go when we all knew perfectly well the reason why.  I’ve had them just show me the door, only to be told later by a co-worker what the problem was.  There were times when I had to mow lawns to make ends meet. 

I have always laughed at those "studies" that prove that homosexuals make more money then the average American.  Where the hell did mine go then?  Don’t tell Me I don’t know what’s at stake here if EDNA doesn’t pass.  I fucking lived it for decades!  Maybe someday you’ll grow a conscience and realize that’s exactly why I cannot look my transgendered neighbors in the face and tell them they’re holding me back and they have to get in line behind me.  Who would you do that for John?  Who would you get in the back of the bus for?

You disgust me.