Andrea Jones
Nov. 16th, 2011 11:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
potato_headLook, a rather awesome AOL article for once! (Well, Huffington Post through AOL) By which I mean the language is handled correctly and the topic isn't sensationalized. The blurb didn't even include the fact that she was a trans woman, just that she was a woman.
DO NOT READ THE COMMENTS OH MY GOD
Anyways, I thoroughly approve of her actions. Shove the logic in their faces. Although gauging by the police report, logic is something they care little for.
I suppose I will just copy+paste the text so you don't have to click the link or run the risk of accidentally reading the comments (you really do not want to read the comments) so
A Tennessee-based transgender woman says she went topless in the parking lot of a local DMV in an effort to fight for her rights.
As WATE.com is reporting, Andrea Jones was arrested for indecent exposure after taking her shirt off after the Morristown Driver's License Office refused to change her sex from male to female on her driver's license.
"If I was a male, I had the right to, when I stepped out the door, take off my shirt," Jones, who has had a partial sex change, explained. "It's not right for the state to ask me to be both male and female. A choice needs to be made. They cannot hold me to both standards."
The police report referred to Jones as a man, The Advocate notes: "Mr. Jones continued to yell that he had the right to show his breasts in public,and wanted to be recognized as a female."
Jones is not the only LGBT person to encounter driver's license trouble in recent weeks. Earlier this month, a Florida-based lesbian couple were rejected after applying to change their last names in Florida although they had proper documentation of their Connecticut marriage and Social Security cards.
So yeah. Unfortunate, but it is good to see trans people standing up like this. She has the heart of a warrior! Or a lion? Something fierce.
And since I have you all here I'd just like to remind everyone to carefully consider before spending your $$ on this last Twilight movie, if you were intending to see it. That money is still going to SMeyer and she is still giving a lot of it to the Mormons. Be an informed consumer and all that. Buy a ticket to another movie and then go to the Meyer one; the theater will be losing a few $ at the most, ticket prices are paltry compared to what they rake in on concessions.
Okay I am done preaching for today, going to go work on hemming my scarf 6 u 9 I am so good at hemming you guys, this is awesome, I can make scarfs forever!!! I LOVE SCARFS SO MUCH
Sewing list after this scarf:
DO NOT READ THE COMMENTS OH MY GOD
Anyways, I thoroughly approve of her actions. Shove the logic in their faces. Although gauging by the police report, logic is something they care little for.
I suppose I will just copy+paste the text so you don't have to click the link or run the risk of accidentally reading the comments (you really do not want to read the comments) so
A Tennessee-based transgender woman says she went topless in the parking lot of a local DMV in an effort to fight for her rights.
As WATE.com is reporting, Andrea Jones was arrested for indecent exposure after taking her shirt off after the Morristown Driver's License Office refused to change her sex from male to female on her driver's license.
"If I was a male, I had the right to, when I stepped out the door, take off my shirt," Jones, who has had a partial sex change, explained. "It's not right for the state to ask me to be both male and female. A choice needs to be made. They cannot hold me to both standards."
The police report referred to Jones as a man, The Advocate notes: "Mr. Jones continued to yell that he had the right to show his breasts in public,and wanted to be recognized as a female."
Jones is not the only LGBT person to encounter driver's license trouble in recent weeks. Earlier this month, a Florida-based lesbian couple were rejected after applying to change their last names in Florida although they had proper documentation of their Connecticut marriage and Social Security cards.
So yeah. Unfortunate, but it is good to see trans people standing up like this. She has the heart of a warrior! Or a lion? Something fierce.
And since I have you all here I'd just like to remind everyone to carefully consider before spending your $$ on this last Twilight movie, if you were intending to see it. That money is still going to SMeyer and she is still giving a lot of it to the Mormons. Be an informed consumer and all that. Buy a ticket to another movie and then go to the Meyer one; the theater will be losing a few $ at the most, ticket prices are paltry compared to what they rake in on concessions.
Okay I am done preaching for today, going to go work on hemming my scarf 6 u 9 I am so good at hemming you guys, this is awesome, I can make scarfs forever!!! I LOVE SCARFS SO MUCH
Sewing list after this scarf:
- several large stuffed mice
- Slytherin scarf(sss???)
- OTHER THINGS PROBABLY
