"I’m really trying to be a positive role model for trans people and it upsets me that after I..."

“I’m really trying to be a positive role model for trans people and it upsets me that after I SPECIFICALLY asked the producers of “Cake Boss” NOT to disrespect me or trans people. Before I agreed to do this show, I was assured and then reassured that it wasn’t going to be like the JERRY SPRINGER show or MAURY. Let me make this clear. CALLING A TRANSGENDER WOMAN A MAN IS WRONG. Period. Its degrading, its rude, and its very hurtful. I may not have been born a woman, but im NOT a man. I told them I would mind if they said “born male” or “was a male”. After taking this journey its not fair at all to be lied to by the producers. PLEASE PASS THIS ALONG. EDUCATE AND PROMOTE EQUALITY AND RESPECT!!!!!!!”

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Carmen Carrera on her appearance on “Cake Boss” (via fuckyeahdragrace)

TW: Verbal abuse, mis-gendering

(via wonderwomanv2)

I am SO sick of people acting like it’s funny to mock or disrespect transgender people or that it’s okay to call them by the wrong gender.

Referring to a transgender woman as ‘he’ or saying that she’s a man or ‘used to be a man’ is not okay. On no level is transphobic shit like that okay >:(

(via thefingerfuckingfemalefury) EXACTLY! I even had a rant up, a while back when HLN was referring to the lovely trans!contestant, who IS a woman, mind you, as, and I quote, “she was formerly a he”. Not only is it disrespectful, it’s also ignorant. >:-| (via ealperin)

^ THIS

She was not ‘formerly a he’

She is a woman. That’s the end of story right there. It’s not okay to refer to a transgender person as having ‘used to be a man’ or anything like that.

(via thefingerfuckingfemalefury)

Goddammit.