Jennifer Usher gloats over misguided hoax

In yet another example of bizarre Internet behaviour, UCSF employee Jennifer Usher (who has been posting anti-transsexual and anti-transgender attacks on the internet under the name JustJennifer) has now claimed that the posts that Usher apparently made from UCSF computers were purposefully crafted, along with other coments, to look that way as part of a hoax.

Apparently Jennifer Usher doesn't mind dragging Usher's employer, supervisors, and co-workers into the mud. There has been no comment from UCSF so far on the whole issue.

This is just one more example of Jennifer Usher's disregard for others. While I feel sorry for those who have to work with Jennifer Usher, UCSF has been warned often enough that Jennifer Usher has an Internet problem, as well as a penchant for attacking transsexuals and other transgenders on-line.

(Jennifer Usher's usenet post bragging about this hoax is reproduced below)

As promised Monday

Anatomy of a transquisling - Part 1 - Jennifer Usher attacks transsexuals and other transgenders

Topics in this post include Jennifer Usher's attacks on transgender and transsexual women, years of attacks on a woman who was raped, a crude attempt at outing me, claims of 'special privilege', and the University of California San Francisco's action (or lack thereof) over the years concerning Usher's use of UCSF computers and work time to harass transsexuals on the Internet.

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Preview

Some of the topics that will be covered

• Jennifer Usher's 'back story' - how it has changed over time from being 'transvestite' to 'more than a transvestite but less than a transsexual' to 'transsexual' to 'I'm a woman, not a transsexual' (with a few other detours along the way);
• Jennifer Usher's history of attacks on transsexuals and transgenders;
• UCSF taking only the weakest of measures despite many warnings of Usher's behaviour towards transgenders and transsexuals;
• The circumstances leading up to Jennifer Usher threatening to out me (then actually doing so), going back to my attempts 5 years ago to try to get Usher to stop calling several other transsexuals 'men in dresses',
• Attacks by Jennifer Usher on transpeople elsewhere on the Internet;

UCSF has been contacted to confirm their policy concerning computers and cyberstalking

In what appears to a bizarre mis-reading of the 1st Amendment, the same transquisling who made several hollow legal threats has stooped to a new low, trying to out me. From a personal perspective, it's just a minor nuisance, since I've been out for years - but Jennifer Usher didn't know that when threatening to publish my birth name and other details (and then doing so).

Usher works for the University of California San Francisco Center for Aids Prevention Research. Among other things, they operate the UCSF Center of Excellence for Transgender Health, so it's disquieting to see one of their employees not only outing someone, but then to defend it by claiming:

I am on my own time, and I am not speaking on behalf of, or as a representative of the University.

Should a government worker with access to sensitive information be going around outing people in their spare time? More on this and the other issues later this week ...

Other groups get a day or a week - LGBTs get a whole month - and probably one of the best months of the year.

June - the days are warm and mostly sunny, the nights still cool, there's the whole summer to look forward to.

Much better than January, when many of us are looking at the bills from December, saying "OMG how many more months of winter?"

What do presidential proclamations mean? The Power to Proclaim ... by Brandon Rottinghaus, University of Houston A presidential proclamation is “an instrument that states a condition, declares a law and requires obedience, recognizes an event or triggers the implementation of a law (by recognizing that the circumstances in law have been realized)” (Cooper 2002, 116). In short, presidents “define” situations or conditions on situations that become legal or economic truth. These orders carry the same force of law as executive orders – the difference between the two is that executive orders are aimed at those inside government while proclamations are aimed at those outside government. The administrative weight of these proclamations is upheld because they are often specifically authorized by congressional statute, making them “delegated unilateral powers.” Presidential proclamations are often dismissed as a practical presidential tool for policy making because of the perception of proclamations as largely ceremonial or symbolic in nature. However, the legal weight of presidential proclamations suggests their importance to presidential governance.

Full text of the proclamation below:

Definition: quislingay (n) quis-ling-gay

Derived from the words "quisling" and "gay", the noun has the following meaning:

Someone who feels the need to deny their sexual or gender identity to such an extent that they actively seek out to collaborate with straight people as a way of sublimating their own inner conflict.

(Photo: a transquisling - someone whose activities undermine members of the trans community from within)

 

Not a new phenomena

It seems like quislingays have been among us forever - just that they'e now getting more press because victims, unlike quislingays such as Reker, can no longer be shamed into silence, and are quite prepared to openly level the same accusations at their accusers.

Tei Nash, the self-styled "pastor" behind notmybathroom.com, with the help of a few other people, managed to generate lots of hype with his "Oh my gawd the homos will rape our children in publc bathrooms!" slanders. In the end, though, it was a circus of the bizarre, with Nash cast in the roll of the town fool. The final vote is in, and people were laughing at him, not with him.

So, what positive lessons can we take away from this mess? Quite a few, actually, but I'll focus on 7.

notmybathroom.com has some serious local opposition from a web site called (I am not making this up, folks) FlushTheFear.com.

Flush the Fear is a group composed of people of faith, including various denominations of the Christian faith, the Jewish faith, and a number of other faith traditions, who live and work in the Missoula area. Our group includes pastors, faith leaders, and lay people. We have joined together in an effort to show the broad support for Lesbian, Gay, Bi, and Transgender (LGBT) equality that exists within communities of faith here in Missoula. Our group will be a leader in articulating God’s justice and ministry of inclusion and hospitality.

Higher education leads the way

If you're still not sure whether you should be "out" after reading To be, or not to be (out)?, why not take a look at what's going on elsewhere ..

While it's true that message is still only slowly getting out (pardon the pun) to the high schools, primary and secondary education institutions have never been seen as leaders when it comes to social policy. The real innovators have been the colleges and universities, which have a history of pushing back against social norms, whether it's anti-war protests, civil rights, or LGBT issues.

So it shouldn't be a surprise if universities are more "out" about "being out." So today, let's take a look at how one university combats the stigma against the transgender, transsexual, lesbian, and gay population by outing their own staff.

The Out List

The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), publishes the "Out List", described as a list of

" out LGBT faculty, students, staff, residents, postdocs, and fellows

The purpose of the Out List is to give people involved with the university the means of contacting someone who can not only lend a sympathetic ear to their situation, but who also "knows the ropes" when it comes to dealing with the university. "

" Students, housestaff, postdocs, and junior faculty are warmly invited to contact the faculty on the Out List for informal mentoring, and students and staff members who are listed with a linked email are also happy to be contacted for informal networking and mentoring. "

Now you can help the "notmybathroom.com" people avoid using "LGBT-contaminated" toilets

Since so many people still seem to have a hang-up over gays, lesbians, and transsexuals using "their" bathrooms, I've come up with a solution. It's not fair that they should have to unknowingly use the same bathroom as a someone who's different from them

So, to help avoid claims that we are accidentally "entrapping" them into using bathrooms that have been "contaminated" by gender-variant people, I've made a series of warning stickers that you can use after you've "taken care of business."

As a public service, simply print out the sticker(s) of your choice, and post them in washrooms when you're done. Remember, "the job isn't finished until the paperwork is complete."