So, calling a trans person a "tranny" is not okay, but referring to drag queen or a trans performer who looks like a woman as "fish" or "fishy" is?

Apparently. The people criticizing Ru, Drag Queens, and Drag Race for their use of Tranny & Shemale really shows how myopic their focus is. Drag Race is FULL TO THE BRIM of language you should be offended by if Tranny offends you, but those words just aren't important enough to call out.

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will the trannos be on the warpath tomorrow?
Posted: 6/12/14 at 03:50pm

JCM breaks it down about Hedwig

"Over the years, people of all stripes have come up to me and said ”Hedwig meant a lot to me”, and they understood it’s a beautiful metaphor. Yes, I’m playing a person who’s trans…but she didn’t want to be; Hedwig does not stand for trans people, she was mutilated against her will! A woman plays a guy who wants to be a woman as a back up singer. Everyone knows this was a fairy tale, a story that you could interpret in many ways. I’m sure someone somewhere is mad that Neil Patrick Harris is playing a trans person, but it’s gone too far. The world is not perfect and it must be sensitized to all of us, but we also know there’s intersections between gay, between trans, between drag, lesbian, between cis-men. The next category will be cis-trans…..which is probably intersex? I understand sensitivity, I understand objectification and discrimination, but I also understand that we are all brothers and sisters and mxsters (as Justin Bond might say), we are all ****ing in this together.

You know, just five years ago I went to show Hedwig at the very first gay film festival in Russia….and it was horrifying. It was shut down, harassed by the government mercilessly until the riot police shut it down. We had to do secret screenings on a sheet in a dance studio, and we were told not to tell the dancers we were gay! What country has that ever happened in: “Don’t tell the dancers you are gay!” Now, we have this stupid situation of squabbling amongst ourselves about labels and transphobia….guys, come on! There’s so much other **** to be done."

http://www.crewmagazine.com/article/interview-john-cameron-mitchell/

Updated On: 6/12/14 at 03:50 PM