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# LETTER TO EDITOR: No to transgender exclusion
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/letter-to-editor-no-to-transgender-exclusion/
- Published: 2014-07-17T07:56:09.000Z
- Updated: 2014-07-22T06:20:01.000Z
- Description: John Cohen’s Cause (GScene July 2014 p69) terribly misrepresents transgender experience to wrongly justify transgender exclusion. He states: “I am happy with my sexuality [a gay man]” but that that “transsexuals […] consider their condition a medical problem.” No. It is western culture that consider
- Author: Contributor
- Tags: Letters, News

[![Gscene Trans Issue](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/web-3008.jpg)](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/gscene-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/web-3008.jpg)

John Cohen’s Cause (GScene July 2014 p69) terribly misrepresents transgender experience to wrongly justify transgender exclusion.

**He states:** *“I am happy with my sexuality \[a gay man\]” but that that “transsexuals \[…\] consider their condition a medical problem.”*

No. It is western culture that considers *“transsexuals”* a *“medical problem”*.

In other times and places *“transsexuals”* were considered a blessing to ALL the community, with no medical intervention needed to be accepted. If the grounds for kicking us out are a specific “medical problem” then what about the specific *“medical problem\[s\]”* such as suicide and depression and broken bones from being beaten up suffered by LGB people BECAUSE they are LGB in a culture that bullies and harasses them?

Is that grounds to kick them out of the LGBT umbrella? By the way, lets use the word WE chose for ourselves: Transgender, not the medical term *“transsexuals”* a subset of Transgender, the T in LGBT.

Stonewall UK has already stolen Stonewall from the T. Shame on anyone who uses a *“medical problem”* as reason to politically exclude a tiny minority.

**Natasha Thoday**