{"id":18544,"date":"2013-01-11T13:13:08","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T18:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=18544"},"modified":"2013-01-11T13:13:08","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T18:13:08","slug":"first-there-was-homophobia-now-we-have-transphobia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/first-there-was-homophobia-now-we-have-transphobia\/","title":{"rendered":"First there was homophobia, now we have transphobia"},"content":{"rendered":"

No, “transphobia” is not the fear of chemical compounds<\/a> that have a molecular structure in which two atoms or groups are on opposite sides of a double bond.<\/p>\n

What it actually means is \u2013 well, like homophobia, nothing at all really. Since \u201cphobia\u201d means an irrational fear of something, arachnophobia, for example, is a condition where one has an irrational fear of spiders. One of our daughters has arachnophobia, a fact that prompted one of our other children to drop a rubber spider into her drink a few Christmases ago. The screams were audible throughout Southern Ontario.<\/p>\n

No-one has that kind of irrational fear of either homosexuals or transvestites. Both words, being meaningless, have little use other than as a substitute for rational discussion when a liberal encounters someone who thinks either state is anything less than completely normal and charming.<\/p>\n

From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Suzanne Moore, who frequently writes for the Guardian newspaper, appears to have left Twitter this afternoon having faced heavy criticism for her controversial remarks about the trans community.<\/p>\n

The journalist came under fire for a line in an article in the New Statesman titled, Seeing Red: The Power of Female Anger, which was published on 8 January. In it she wrote:<\/p>\n

\u201c[Women] are angry with ourselves for not being happier, not being loved properly and not having the ideal body shape \u2013 that of a Brazilian transsexual.\u201d<\/p>\n

She then defended her use of the phrase \u201cBrazilian transsexual\u201d \u2013 which many considered to be offensive \u2013 not least because Brazil has an appalling record on transphobic hate crime.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No, “transphobia” is not the fear of chemical compounds that have a molecular structure in which two atoms or groups are on opposite sides of a double bond. What it actually means is \u2013 well, like homophobia, nothing at all … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":14,"footnotes":""},"categories":[317],"tags":[1563],"class_list":["post-18544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transgender-mayhem","tag-transsexual"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}