Merry Christmas*

To every one of my TransGriot readers west of the International Date Line.   It's still Christmas Eve over here on my side of it and I'll be watching some NFL games on the tube later today while anticipating what might be under the tree for me when I open my gifts tomorrow.

But one gift I'm thankful for is all of you who surf by my cyberhome throughout the year.   I deeply appreciate the fact that you take time out of your busy day to read what I have to say about a lot of subjects inside and outside the trans community here in the US and around the world.. 

I hope and pray you're having a wonderful Christmas Day and that 2012 will be a fantastic year for you as well.

Merry Christmas!

Trans Teen Interview-Angie

Danielle Levitt is doing interviews of American teenagers.  This one is a 2010 interview with 17 year old New York City trans teen Angie.

Shut Up Fool Awards- Happy Holiday Weekend Edition

Happy Holidays TransGriot readers!  We are several days into Hanukkah which started on the 20th, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day will happen tomorrow and Sunday and Kwanzaa starts on Monday.

If you're west of the International Date Line it's Christmas Eve for you already

But my ongoing mission of finding this week's.fool, fools or group of fools for our illustrious TransGriot Shut Up Fool award never takes a day off.   And before I get my grub on and open my Christmas gifts I must send you into your holidays secure in the knowledge that you know who won this week's award.

So let's do this shall we?

This week's nominees are Group awards for the Westboro Baptist Church, the House Republicans, the Lowell Sun newspaper in Massachusetts and Fox Noise, Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), Rep Eric Cantor (R-VA), Jeremy Shockey, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Michele Bachmann, Marcus Bachmann, Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX), Gov Chris Christie (R-NJ), Ron Paul, and Rep Allen West (R-FL)

Honorable mentions go to Cassie Wright, the new bigot in charge of the University of Texas College Republicans and Tea Klux Klanner  Jules Manson

This week's winner however is Rep. James Sensenbrennner (R-WI)

He's been spending a lot of time obsessing about First Lady Michelle Obama's derrière.  He was overheard ranting in a DCA airport lounge about how she “lectures us on eatingright while she has a large posterior herself.”

At a Christmas service at St. Aidan's Episcopal Church in Hartford, WI he repeated the comment.  Sensenbrenner stated to the assembled parishioners, “AndMichelle Obama, her project is obesity. And look at her bigbutt.”

News flash for you Rep. Sensenbrenner.  Black women have curves.  The First Lady is 5'11" and not even close to being obese so you can chill with that false GOP talking point.  .

You conservafools are just hatin' because the FLOTUS is all that and four bags of Jay's potato chips.

You and your GOP buddies wish y'all had women in your overly vanillacentric ranks with her combination of statuesque beauty and brains that the world admires and looks up to.

Don't hate, it lessens you.

Oh yeah, Rep. James Sensenbrenner, Merry Christmas and shut up fool!