Maybe this is obvious, maybe it's not, but part of the reason the "It Gets Better" project has gained so much traction is that it makes sense to cis, straight people (*).
Teenage despair is part of the cis&straight teenage experience. And I think many cis straight adults look back on the teenage years and think "Yeah, it totally got better" and think their teenage selves were very concerned with stuff that turned out not to matter much at all in the end. So because "It gets better" would have been a good message to send to their straight teenage self, they are happy to endorce "It gets better" for gay teenagers, too.
If I understand correctly, you're annoyed because the "It gets better" project ignores trans experience. What I'm saying is that, at least in most of the manifestations I've seen on facebook, it's also ignoring the gay and lesbian experience. (That cannot be said for Dan Savage himself.)
Is this better? I don't know. But I don't think you're seeing a denial of trans people as human so much as a selfish focus on oneself that makes people believe everyone is like them.
(*) I should perhaps add a "white" and a "middle-class" qualifier there too.
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Date: 2010-10-15 04:59 pm (UTC)Teenage despair is part of the cis&straight teenage experience. And I think many cis straight adults look back on the teenage years and think "Yeah, it totally got better" and think their teenage selves were very concerned with stuff that turned out not to matter much at all in the end. So because "It gets better" would have been a good message to send to their straight teenage self, they are happy to endorce "It gets better" for gay teenagers, too.
If I understand correctly, you're annoyed because the "It gets better" project ignores trans experience. What I'm saying is that, at least in most of the manifestations I've seen on facebook, it's also ignoring the gay and lesbian experience. (That cannot be said for Dan Savage himself.)
Is this better? I don't know. But I don't think you're seeing a denial of trans people as human so much as a selfish focus on oneself that makes people believe everyone is like them.
(*) I should perhaps add a "white" and a "middle-class" qualifier there too.