As it has come to be used in 2016, the prefix “trans-” now means “not really.” For example, a “transwoman” is someone who is not really a woman. And this November, a lot of people are going to trans-vote for the following two transwomen.
Matt Canham, Salt Lake Tribune:
Utah voters picked a historic, and largely unknown, Democratic candidate to challenge Sen. Mike Lee this November.
Misty K. Snow is the first transgender nominee from a major party to run for a U.S. Senate seat and
shehe is among the first transgender people to run for Congress. Misty Plowright, a transgender woman, claimed the Democratic nomination in Colorado’s conservative 5th House District on Tuesday.
Well, the United States Congress is already home to all manner of mental illnesses, so I suppose one more wouldn’t hurt.
Although neither of these Mistys, Snow nor Plowright, is the first transgendered Congressional nominee for a major party. That honor belongs to a fellow named Karen Kerin, who ran for Congress in Vermont as a Republican(!) in 2000, way before it was trendy to pretend to be a woman. (Pearl Jam didn’t even cancel a single concert to support him!) But Bernie Sanders beat Mr. Kerin, and the rest is history. Or, if you prefer, xistory.
Anyway. I’m not going to wait until November to express my outrage that the two Mistys will have lost. It’s clear to me that their losses will have been due to transphobia by the people of Utah and Colorado. It makes me sad that we will still have so far to go as a society, even four months from now. November 8, 2016 will have been a sad day for transgender rights.
Hang in there, men who pretend to be women. It gets better.