By: Tommy Patterson

Tommy Patterson — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 11:27:13 +0000

I would like to comment on the article from a Gay perspective and to point out a serious inaccuracy in the content. Firstly, Gender Dynamix in South Africa claims to be “solely” focused in the transgender community – this is not so as they actively participated in “The Alternative Gay Pride” in Cape Town which successfully attempted to scuttle the “real” Cape Town Gay Parade. This was a political attempt to destroy a totally inclusive event of long and proud standing using race and gender to divide the Gay community – I have great respect for our transgender family and offer all support to their cause – I am a proud Gay man and cannot understand why it should be “humiliating” to refer to a trans person as Gay – We are all part of the same family, whether it be gay men or gay women or Transgender – if we stopped this bigotry and profiling by using labels such as “mad black lesbians” and refer to all of us as GAY without adding a colour or a gender as a prefix ,we would be heading in the right direction. So lets get over ourselves and move forward as one big family.

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By: Tommy Patterson