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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...school-attack-caught-camera-says-bullied.html

A transgender girl accused of assaulting two students at a Texas high school alleges that she was being bullied and was merely fighting back

Shocking video shows a student identified by police as Travez Perry violently punching, kicking and stomping on a girl in the hallway of Tomball High School.

The female student was transported to the hospital along with a male student, whom Perry allegedly kicked in the face and knocked unconscious.

According to the police report, Perry - who goes by 'Millie' - told officers that the victim has been bullying her and had posted a photo of her on social media with a negative comment.

One Tomball High School parent whose daughter knows Perry said that the 18-year-old had been the target of a death threat.

'From what my daughter has said that the girl that was the bully had posted a picture of Millie saying people like this should die,' the mother, who asked not to be identified by name, told DailyMail.com.

When Perry appeared in court on assault charges, her attorney told a judge that the teen has been undergoing a difficult transition from male to female and that: 'There's more to this story than meets the eye.'

Perry is currently out on bond, according to authorities.

The video of the altercation sparked a widespread debate on social media as some claim Perry was justified in standing up to her alleged bullies and others condemn her use of violence.

The mother who spoke with DailyMail.com has been one of Millie's most ardent defenders on Facebook.

'I do not condone violence at all. But situations like this show that people now a days, not just kids, think they can post what they want. Or say what they want without thinking of who they are hurting,' she said.

'Nobody knows what Millie has gone through, and this could have just been a final straw for her. That is all speculation of course because I don't personally know her or her family, but as a parent and someone who is part of the LGBTQ community this girl needs help and support, not grown men online talking about her private parts and shaming and mocking her.'

One Facebook commenter summed up the views of many, writing: 'This was brutal, and severe! I was bullied for years and never attacked anyone!'

Multiple commenters rejected the gender transition defense and classified the attack as a male senselessly beating a female.

One woman wrote on Facebook: 'This person will get off because they're transitioning. This is an animal. She kicked, and stomped, and beat...not okay. Bullying is not acceptable, but kicking someone in the head. Punishment doesn't fit the crime.'

FB https://www.facebook.com/travez.perry http://archive.is/mnEmm

 

[The Door]

Another added: “Harry Potter’s legacy is in great hands with Daniel Radcliffe.”

Any excuse to cling to mediocre children novels.

 

[kobox666]

Awesome, a dude silencing a woman stating facts, what a progressive utopia! Also, fuck him, the harry potter role set him for life, at least dont bite the hand that feed you.

 

[Maamtis]

what does feeling validated even feel like? it sounds like some fake ass emotion to me.

You get a rubber stamp on your hand that says "Legit bitch 4 lyfe."

I enjoy Daniel in Miracle Workers. Shame he's such a virtue signalling knob in real life.

 

[JK Rowling]

What a cowardly little weasel.

 

[Positron]

He probably thinks a horse is woman too.

 

[Tomboy Respecter]

what does feeling validated even feel like? it sounds like some fake ass emotion to me.

It's a real emotion, but it's usually in connection to shit you did and people saying something positive about you, not castrating yourself or doing nothing but having a certain religious/racial/sexual identity like it's being used here.

 

[Trump's Chosen]

I wonder if all the movie money is worth to have your own creations rise up against you.

 

[The Last Stand]

what does feeling validated even feel like? it sounds like some fake ass emotion to me.

White people. Welcome to America.

 

[TheBlackVolga]

I like that a man is telling a woman what it means to be a woman.

Knobhead.

 

[Elbe]

I'm so glad we have these warring wealthy aristocrats to dominate public opinion and discussion

'Twas ever thus.

 

[DMT Blastoid]

I can understand the sentiment from both sides, what I don't get is why no one is upset a man told a woman to shut up lol, also on the topic of JKR's 'phobias or whatever, I've never understood why a lot of these tumblr rejects flock to her work yet still dogpile her.

They use the excuse of "separating author from work" but when a similar situation arises on media they don't like they seem unable to do it, lol.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

This might be the most 2020 thing I've read today. There's a six minute long video at the link I have no idea how to download. The Australian piece referenced is, alas, completely paywalled.

http://archive.md/uONiH

Here's the paywalled article:

Spoiler: Gender change is ‘no fix for autism’, Bernard Lane, 4th June 2020

A world-renowned expert on Asperger’s syndrome Tony Attwood has called for a searching inquiry into the dramatic overrepresentation of teenagers with autism in gender clinics.

Professor Attwood, a psychologist based in Brisbane and author of the guide known globally as the “Asperger’s bible”, said unhurried and thoughtful gender change could be a success but he worried about a crash back into depression if trans status was embraced with impulsive and unrealistic hopes of a fix for autism.

“Once they’ve changed gender, they still have autism and when (gender) transition doesn’t solve their problems they think, Oh no, that was the only option I had, what’s the point of life?,” he told The Australian.

“One of the characteristics of autism is what we call a one-track mind, and sometimes the issue of gender dysphoria (discomfort with one’s body) and changing gender becomes a special interest with a phenomenal knowledge and determination.”

He said it was vital for an inquiry and research projects to look beyond the politics and “evangelising” of trans identity in order to assess not just medical treatments but the psychological outcomes, the fortunes of former patients from the clinics, the role of social media and schools in the rising caseload, and any neurological factors.

In the country’s busiest youth gender clinic, at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, 45 per cent of 383 patients — 275 of them born female with an average age just under 14 — showed mild to severe autism features on a screening test.

Among young people generally Australia’s reported rate of diagnosed autism is about 3 per cent; autism features may not lead to a formal diagnosis. There is debate about the accuracy of screening tests, and whether autism spectrum disorder has become too broad a category.

RCH clinic director Michelle Telfer told an inquiry in July that many of her recent intake of female-born patients wanted “top surgery” or mastectomies to look more like boys.

Often her patients told her, “I don’t need to talk about this any more, I just actually need to transition (with medical intervention)”, she said. RCH, which has defended its treatment as guided by “strict clinical governance standards”, would not comment on the autism issue.

Dr Telfer has said assessment of young patients possibly on the autism spectrum may have to “take the autism traits into account when we try to find out what those young people are trying to tell us.”

Just under 50 per cent of a group of 104 patients at the Perth Children’s Hospital gender clinic — with an average age of almost 15, and 76 per cent of them born girls — showed mild to severe autism features.

Screening for autism was part of the clinic’s “thorough assessment” of patients, a spokesman for the hospital said. The clinic lacks capacity for a proper diagnosis.

Australia’s other large specialist clinic, at the Queensland Children’s Hospital, would not comment on the autism issue, and told a member of the public last year it kept no data on how many biological girls given puberty blocker drugs were autistic.

However, de-identified case notes by a psychiatrist at Queensland’s clinic, Brian Ross, speculate about the role of foetal testosterone in girls with autism and gender dysphoria, and acknowledge concern that gender change may “worsen” autism.

Dr Ross discusses a 12-year-old male patient whose “desire to be a girl arose from his need to have friends and be accepted in the context of his lifelong social skills deficits” but the psychiatrist says autistic youth have “the same rights” as others to gender treatment.

Professor Attwood, whose book The Complete Guide to Asperger’s Syndrome has been translated into 18 languages, said he was not ruling out gender transition, but the reasons for it mattered.

“A girl that I knew wanted to become a boy — where did this come from? She was bullied by girls who didn’t bully boys, so her autistic logic was, if I become a boy they will stop bullying me,” he said.

“You’ve got to look at aspects of sexuality, and whether the (gender) transition has been viewed as a psychological as opposed to a medical success.”

High rates of mental illness have been documented in the surge of teenagers diagnosed with gender dysphoria since the mid-2000s but debate about rates of suspected autism ranging from 20-50 per cent hardly figures in mainstream media.

Clinicians say if social contagion online and in school peer groups is driving some of the global spike in trans identity, then teens with autism are especially at risk because of their desperation to fit in, rigid and concrete styles of thinking, immaturity and obsessional interests. Girls are thought to be better than boys at “masking” high-functioning autism.

Multiple autism clinicians and advocacy groups refused to talk on the record about autism in gender clinics for fear of being branded “transphobic” and hauled before professional bodies and health regulators.

Professor Attwood said he was not saying autism necessarily stood in the way of successful gender change for under-18s but a trans declaration should be carefully looked into, and medical intervention to block natural puberty called for “extreme caution”.

There is growing international concern about whether often troubled minors can give informed consent to hormone drugs and surgery with risks including sterility, brittle bones, loss of sexual pleasure, cardiovascular problems and other as yet unknown long-term outcomes.

A leading Dutch gender clinic uses pictures and drawings to try to communicate with autistic youth.

Dr Telfer has said assessment of young patients possibly on the autism spectrum may have to “take the autism traits into account when we try to find out what those young people are trying to tell us.”

The high-profile US gender physician Johanna Olson-Kennedy, cited by Dr Telfer as an authority on the mental health benefits of top surgery, has claimed there are cases where “symptoms of autism go away when (patients) are affirmed in their (self-identified) gender”.

Dr Olson-Kennedy, who runs America’s biggest youth gender clinic at the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, said last year she had sent “about 200” patients born female, as young as 13, for “chest reconstruction”.

On Monday, one of Australia’s best known “gender affirming” surgeons and a popular choice on trans social media, Andrew Ives, was set to resume operations at a private hospital in Melbourne as elective procedures ramp up.

He did not reply when asked if under-18 patients were in the queue. A typical cost estimate for “top surgery” or mastectomy is about $10,000. Under-18 trans surgery is thought to be rare in Australia but public data is lacking.

In August Dr Ives put his name to a statement from the gender clinicians group AusPATH — run by Dr Telfer — criticising this newspaper’s reporting of the debate, and claiming evidence for affirmative treatment had been “publicly scrutinised in Australia through both academic and legal processes at the highest level and is currently standard clinical practice”.

It feels like that but irl I think it's a silent majority situation. Women are more susceptible to peer pressure and the pressure to toe the line here is huge.

On a completely different note, Trans Widows Voices is a newish British website. Don't visit unless you want to immerse yourself in degeneracy and depression, frankly.

Thought I grabbed the right article but it's a complementary one or a follow up of sorts so I'll post it.

Gender identity caught up on the autism spectrum
Autism, often high-functioning and not an obvious candidate for formal diagnosis, appears to account for a sizeable share of the overwhelmingly female caseload in youth gender clinics.



Jane* is a Melbourne psychologist who speaks with affection and concern about the autistic teenagers she helps to skill up for a world that’s not a natural home for them. The way she sees it, doing her job could destroy her career — if she goes public with her belief that a transgender declaration by one of these kids must be the starting point for careful psychological inquiry, not an automatic handover to the local “gender affirming” clinic at the Royal Children’s Hospital.

Jane is far from the only practitioner worried about “false positives” as these clinics proliferate globally, with vulnerable kids whose underlying problems may go untreated, even undetected, because trans is in the spotlight.

“I hate that I have to not say my name and be secretive about it,” Jane says. “People who dare speak out are being punished professionally.”

The pro-trans affirmative-treatment model, which blackens its critics as “transphobes”, has found rapid acceptance in health systems. This has happened in parallel with a surge in teenagers, disproportionately girls, crowding the gender-clinic waiting lists and seeking hormonal treatment followed by surgery to confirm the inner truth of their trans boyhood.

Gender dysphoria, or distress at being “born in the wrong body”, is the headline diagnosis but other vulnerabilities are also common. Few outsiders are aware how many of these troubled young patients — almost 50 per cent in some clinics — show signs of autism. Close observers see trans as the first identity-politics push native to social media, spreading by “social contagion” through online platforms and school friendship networks — networks that autistic kids are struggling to unlock and enter. Does trans look like a key?

The affirmative sales pitch is that the insight of children is a better guide than biological sex to their “gender identity”, and that when conflict between the two manifests itself as gender dysphoria, trans medicine can bring things into harmony and slash suicide risks. Why should autistic kids be denied this “lifesaving” help?

But critics of these treatments say they are experimental, and more cautious advocates admit the evidence is short-term, poor-quality or patchy. The clinics claim grateful patients, but regret and side effects including infertility are among the still poorly understood risks.

“I’m not saying transition is never to be but I strongly disagree with children and teenagers having any medical interventions before the age of 25 or so when that executive (decision-making) function (in the brain) is fully developed,” Jane says.

Finding a psychologist with Jane’s cautious approach was difficult — and a great relief — for Claire*, the mother of a socially awkward 14-year-old. Out of the blue, a school counsellor had summoned Claire to announce her daughter, Zoe*, was trans. But, while on the waiting list at the RCH clinic, she saw a private psychiatrist, who suggested she be assessed for Asperger’s, or high-functioning autism. “The psychiatrist said these kids feel like they don’t fit in, they can’t work it out,” Claire says. “They feel like they’re a bit odd, they go online, they come up with trans. He said don’t go (to RCH), they will affirm that she’s transgender, and with very little consultation they will put her on puberty blockers. She will be convinced (by the clinic) that she’s transgender and nothing else will be looked at.”

If her teen autism patients want to talk to Jane about gender, that’s fine, but she puts effort into work on social skills, handling anxiety and solving friendship problems.

Also helpful with “Aspie” kids such as Zoe is their high intelligence — if their rigidity in thinking can be loosened up.

Claire says her daughter, who has “quite a scientific mind”, now accepts the Asperger’s diagnosis.

“She understands that the human brain is not fully mature until at least the age of 25 — so I say to her, no permanent changes should be made to your body until you’re over 25,” Claire says.

“My feeling is she will not always feel she is transgender — and if I’m wrong, she’s making that decision as a mature, fully informed adult, not as a hormonal, emotionally confused, socially awkward teenager.”

Question of influence

Autism, often high-functioning and not an obvious candidate for formal diagnosis, appears to account for a sizeable share of the overwhelmingly female caseload in youth gender clinics.

For affirmationists, the spike in teenage trans is welcome, not worrying — and testifies to social acceptance, not “social contagion”.

“The reality is, autistic people are not so influenced by societal norms, they’re purer people,” says Cheryl Dissanayake, who holds a chair in autism research at La Trobe University.

Nor does she see a risk of confused kids in autistic “problem-solving” mode latching on to a false trans identity.

“They are trying to fit in (with neurotypical kids) rather than adopt another identity that would place them on the fringes. I think no one would adopt a difficult path such as (trans).”

This is an issue close to home for Dissanayake. The child she gave birth to as a girl — “the prettiest girl you could imagine, completely happy in her own body” — is now a young trans man in his first year on testosterone, and “very happy”.

In Canada, child and adolescent psychiatrist Sue Bradley founded a Toronto gender clinic in 1975 that built a worldwide reputation for cautious expertise until 2016, when it was shut down after trumped-up allegations by trans activists. Years ago, Bradley says, the difficult kids often were tagged with “borderline personality” but now she believes they were on the autism spectrum, with “the high-functioning kids not picked up at all”. She has refined her understanding in recent years consulting for mental health clinics with children who don’t respond to the usual interventions.

She says autism diagnosis of these often “really bright” kids is difficult and gender clinics lack the necessary expertise.

“These kids are often very immature, but you’ve got them coming into puberty and adolescence, with their bodies changing, all the social-sexual kinds of things going on around them, kids being in cliques, and they don’t get it, they do get left out.”

Bradley says the trick is to intercept them early, work on social skills and teach self-regulation of turbulent emotions. The ideal is a less rigid take on the world, a more solid sense of self, a better fit with peers, less bullying, therefore less depression and anxiety.

“If we continue with the affirmative approach we are creating a system that pulls in these vulnerable kids, some of whom are going to regret it, and that’s not good medicine,” she says.

Brisbane-based clinician Tony Attwood, much in demand as an authority on Asperger’s, is also plugged in to the international debate about the overlap with gender dysphoria.

He recalls a patient he met as a preschool boy: “He has now become a she in her early 20s and she is the happiest I’ve ever known her.”

In his experience, the shift to trans identity is more likely to turn out well if there has been “a slow, thoughtful process” leading up to it. At other times, he says, the wish to transition is new, driven by an impulsive “one-track mind” — a feature of autism — and a confrontational “for me or against me” attitude to parents, whose support is vital with or without transition.

“Often they’re wanting to accelerate the process, whereas parents and sometimes professionals are really seeking that the person puts the brakes on a bit and thinks about it.”

And sometimes nobody knows the kid is autistic, with girls especially good at “masking” the condition.

“They have the ability to act, and this can camouflage and delay their diagnosis until another issue comes up, like an eating disorder or depression or gender dysphoria, and you see behind the mask,” Attwood says.

“So this is why there needs to be a lot of what I call psychological archaeology.

“I am not denying the transition, I am looking at the psychological processes that led to that decision, and to affirm that and look at developing the sense of self, irrespective of gender, because we know there’s a fragmented sense of self in autism.”

Grim choice

Parents hesitating on the brink of life-altering medical intervention often come across the online affirmative refrain: do you want a daughter dead by her own hand or a live trans son?

Like any devoted mother, Megan* would do whatever it takes to protect her sweet but immature 15-year-old daughter, Charlotte*, who added a trans identity to her Asperger’s profile last year. But Megan is also a psychologist and knows suicide threats are easily made and extremely difficult to assess for seriousness. She’s acutely aware of how lonely Aspie kids are vulnerable to online subcultures only too delighted to recruit them.

Charlotte coming out as trans was another case of a school counsellor doing solo diagnosis. “I later learned that my daughter, like a lot of other teenagers, was consuming YouTube and Reddit and had got into the transgender bubble online,” Megan says. Trans identity looked very like an autism “fix” spread by social contagion, and Megan could see ahead the possibility of Charlotte’s mature brain deeply regretting any invasive medical treatment as a teenager.

[twi trans]

The gender clinic at the Queensland Children’s Hospital was reassuring in some ways: kids wanting puberty blockers yesterday had to wait nine to 12 months before they could see an endocrinologist and the possibility they might abandon the idea of gender change was flagged.

But it struck Megan as like the marketing of cosmetic surgery. The clinic’s message seemed to be: we have hormonal treatment to reduce your daughter’s distress and make her body more like a son’s, but it’s entirely up to you.

For a psychologist and mother, the whole experience was “perplexing”. The staff were well-meaning, Megan says, and when it came to the decision to medically intervene, they seemed caught between gung-ho and gun-shy parents. But they did not take a meticulous patient history for Charlotte. And there was no psychotherapy on offer to help these troubled kids handle distress and accept their bodies and non-stereotypical gender roles. The whole operation seemed oblivious to the cultural context in which trans identity is glamorised and every step of medical transition high-fived online.

“I just don’t think the gender clinic is taking into account any of the social contagion factors,” Megan says.

For the clinic, the fact that a kid still wanted hormone drugs after a year waiting in the queue seemed good enough evidence of a stable trans identity but in Megan’s opinion it may just reflect the non-stop online barracking and the psychological difficulty of owning up to a mistake.

“The messaging needs to change — that it’s OK for parents and clinicians to be questioning, and (staff should be) taking developmental history and a whole lot of other broader contextual factors into account.”

Patience or throughput?

Gender clinics typically operate out of hospitals, which have a cultural bias towards treatment, towards outcomes, for all the talk about clinicians deferring to “expert” kids.

“The medical model is all about intervening and fixing, pumping kids through the system, and that’s the last thing they need,” Megan says. “They need exploration, they need adults to ‘hold the space’ for them, and that’s not what happens.”

By holding the space, Megan means patiently and compassionately digging, helping immature teens go beyond today’s impulsive project towards a more workable way through life.

Charlotte no longer believes she is a boy. It took a year of Megan appealing to Aspie logic with countervailing facts, as well as modest treats if she immersed herself in thoughtful commentary on the trans medical model and could summarise key points.

Mother and daughter recently had their last appointment at the gender clinic, and staff were told that Charlotte was reconciled to being an atypical girl, an Aspie kid.

“They were surprised, and there was acceptance of her decision, but there was zero celebration of her greater self-acceptance — I thought that was weird,” says Megan.

The Weekend Australian sought comment and data from the RCH clinic; it did not reply. Queensland Health said its Brisbane clinic followed the RCH treatment guidelines.

* Not their real names

Screen shots of a couple of comments, not a TRA in sight, instead it's people concerned or critical of what's happening.

I won't thumbnail this one because it hits the nail on the head:

 

[Juan's Sombrero]

☠

 

[Polytetrafluoroethylene]

Daniel Radcliffe declares ‘trans women are women’ in response to JK Rowling’s anti-trans tirade

Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe has made his unwavering support for trans equality clear, in response to anti-trans comments from the series’ author JK Rowling.


Rowling spent much of the weekend infuriating her own fans with an anti-trans tirade, insisting that “erasing the concept of sex” means there’s “no same-sex attraction” and “the lived reality of women globally is erased”.



It was only the latest display of anti-trans rhetoric from the author, but has triggered condemnation from from fans and former cast members.

Daniel Radcliffe: ‘We need to support trans and non-binary people, not invalidate their identities.’

Responding in a blog for LGBT+ charity The Trevor Project, Radcliffe said that while his response will probably be branded “in-fighting between JK Rowling and myself, that is really not what this is about, nor is it what’s important right now”.



He wrote: “While Jo is unquestionably responsible for the course my life has taken, as someone who has been honoured to work with and continues to contribute to The Trevor Project for the last decade, and just as a human being, I feel compelled to say something at this moment.


“Transgender women are women. Any statement to the contrary erases the identity and dignity of transgender people and goes against all advice given by professional health care associations who have far more expertise on this subject matter than either Jo or I.


“According to The Trevor Project, 78 per cent of transgender and non-binary youth reported being the subject of discrimination due to their gender identity. It’s clear that we need to do more to support transgender and non-binary people, not invalidate their identities, and not cause further harm.”

Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe spoke out (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for WarnerMedia)


Addressing the thousands of upset Harry Potter fans who have publicly made their disappointment clear, he added: “To all the people who now feel that their experience of the books has been tarnished or diminished, I am deeply sorry for the pain these comments have caused you.


“I really hope that you don’t entirely lose what was valuable in these stories to you.


“If these books taught you that love is the strongest force in the universe, capable of overcoming anything; if they taught you that strength is found in diversity, and that dogmatic ideas of pureness lead to the oppression of vulnerable groups; if you believe that a particular character is trans, non-binary, or gender fluid, or that they are gay or bisexual; if you found anything in these stories that resonated with you and helped you at any time in your life – then that is between you and the book that you read, and it is sacred. And in my opinion nobody can touch that.

“It means to you what it means to you and I hope that these comments will not taint that too much.”


Radcliffe is the first major member of the Harry Potter film cast to speak out in response to Rowling, though Katie Leung, who played Cho Chang, posted a rallying cry for Black trans lives.

Emma Watson, who played Hermione Granger in the film series, has previously made her support for transgender people clear – but has not been drawn into responding to Rowling’s comments on this occasion.

Harry Potter fans are overcome in response to actor’s powerful message.

Fans responded emotionally to Radcliffe’s statement.

One Twitter response reads: “No, but seriously, I think it’s so important that Daniel Radcliffe wrote the letter to make sure everyone feels validated in the Harry Potter fandom and that he supports each one of us. I’m literally crying.”

Another added: “Harry Potter’s legacy is in great hands with Daniel Radcliffe.”

Trans actor Harrison Browne wrote: “In all seriousness, Daniel Radcliffe is saving lives with this statement. As a trans person, I used movies and books as an escape from my life and Harry Potter was one of those spaces I found refuge in. From one Harry to another… thank you.”

http://archive.md/mZHKe

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/06/09/daniel-radcliffe-harry-potter-trans-transgender-jk-rowling-transphobia-trevor-project/

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[Elwood P. Dowd]

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"Only women get periods" = "Tirade?" That's literally all she said.

Wouldn't this also count as "mansplaining?"

Seeing somebody like Rowling torn apart by this mob is kind of fun, though. It just doesn't get old.

 

[Trump's Chosen]

West Virginia elects its first ever out trans official
10 Jun 2020

• →Rosemary Ketchum ‘has shattered a lavender ceiling’ to become one of just 26 openly trans elected officials in the US.

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Rosemary Ketchum has just won a seat on Wheeling City Council, becoming the first out trans person to win an election in West Virginia.
She becomes one of only 26 out trans elected officials serving anywhere in the US. Meanwhile, she is only the fourth LGBT+ elected official in West Virginia.
Ketchum has promised to use her term in office to advocate for affordable housing, tackle homelessness, combat addiction, and try to improve public transport.
However, she will also be a symbol for LGBT+ rights in West Virginia. It remains a relatively conservative state which doesn’t have anti-discrimination protections covering sexual orientation and gender identity.
Ketchum noted this double role in an interview with local newspaper The Intelligencer last year.
She said: ‘I feel excited to represent inclusivity — but I’m not making my campaign about my gender identity.
‘We have too many systemic problems we have to address, including homelessness, including addiction, including disenfranchisement.
‘People don’t feel like they are part of their community, and one of the things we have to focus on is why people are not feeling like part of the change.
‘There are folks who were born in the city and can no longer afford to live here. There are folks living on our streets and under our bridges who don’t have access to public restroom facilities.
‘We have folks looking for work but don’t have a car and our public transportation system doesn’t run past 6pm.’
Rosemary will inspire other trans candidates
The LGBTQ Victory Fund backed Ketchum’s campaign and president Annise Parker sent her congratulations.
She said: ‘Rosemary has shattered a lavender ceiling in West Virginia and will join the growing number of out trans elected officials serving nationwide.
‘Trans people are severely underrepresented in elected office – with just 26 out trans officials anywhere in the country. So Rosemary’s victory will resonate well beyond her state.
‘We know Rosemary’s race will inspire other trans people from conservative states to consider a run for office in their communities – and then those candidates will inspire others as well.
‘That virtuous cycle is the key to building trans acceptance and political power long-term.’
Ketchum beat three other candidates to represent Ward 3 on Wheeling City Council.

http://archive.is/sxHvU

https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/west-virginia-elects-its-first-ever-out-trans-official/

 

[Sonic]

Just when you thought trannies couldn't ruin anything else, they start running for office and getting elected

 

[HOMO FOR LIFE]

Yeah I don't give a shit anymore. Let it all burn.

 

[The Last Stand]

I have a theory.

Men transition into women so they can claim an additional social status.

I hear complaints about the "patriarchy" but men are infiltrating female spaces with this trend. With more privileges than naturally born men OR women.

Wouldn't THAT be privilege or sexism?

Or am I overthinking this?

 

[Antipathy]

Country Roads, take me home, to the place, that I belong.

Anywhere but West Virginia...