Katy Perry: Part-Time “Tranny”, Full-Time Bimbo?

Looks like hipster hottie Katy Perry stuck her foot in her mouth by saying "You can’t be a full tranny every day of the week, that’s an exaggerated part of my personality." in the latest issue of "Rolling Stone". Hey Katy, seems thinking before you speak is something else you don't do every day of the week. Being "TRANS" is something you obviously know nothing about or else you wouldn't use B/S words like "tranny". Try catching a clue a couple of times a week!

This article came from Tomas Mournian of online the magazine "Queerty"....

"You can’t be a full tranny every day of the week," Katy Perry says in this week’s Rolling Stone. “”That’s an exaggerated part of my personality.”

Perry’s quote appears in the print version of the magazine (pg. 74) , but has been scrubbed from contributing editor Erik Hedegaard’s on-line version. Perhaps “someone” at Rolling Stone, the once legendary magazine now known for its “hot” profiles of, um, Paul Simon, had sense enough to realize Perry’s comment shouldn’t go beyond print (which nobody few people buys they give away on Virgin Atlantic).

Billed as “backstage kick off her ‘California Dreams tour,’ Perry the still (being) Born Again singer, the profile’s packed with quotes like, “When I was a kid, I asked questions about my faith. Now I’m asking questions about the world.” She continues, “Our priority is fame” … “I saw this knowing full well that I’m a part of the problem.”

No kidding, Katy! While you were moaning about your part-time “tranny’ness” – besides being a transparent bid for hipster’ness (fail) – and flaunting your heteronormative privleges, did you ever pause to think (burp) that some people actual live as trans … full-time? Or, that it’s not a costume to take off when their feet hurt?

“Just because she dresses up for her shows or peformance that doesn’t mean she’s a trans person,” says Bamby Salcedo, the Los Angeles based trans activist who is the Project Coordinator for the Transgender Harm Reduction Project with Childrens Hospital Los Angeles. “She hasn’t been harassed in any way. You can’t really say you can relate to a community when you’re not part of it.”

A few months ago, Salcedo was invited to participate in a panel at the White House for HIV & AIDS women and girls awareness day.

“Everything was good, I had my plane ticket, and then got an emergency call saying I wouldn’t be able to get in,” Salcedo says, recalling the Secret Service’s ad hoc denial. “A community that should have been recognized as part of mainstream was not included in the panel, or discussed.”

“Yes, I do have a past, and a history, and they went with that rather than looking at everything that I’ve done in the community.” Unlike Perry, who’s able to flaunt her “tranny’ness” in mainstream media, Salcedo’s work spoke for itself – amongst other accomplishments, Salcedo’s founded Angels of Change, a fundraising mechaimism for transgender adolscent and young adult clients who don’t have insurance at Children’s Hospital.

For her part Perry maintains that “slowly” the “wool” is being removed from her eyes.

Glad you’re on top of that “wool removal,” Katy, and that you’re cultivating the self-awareness to say, “I know I’m not a dummy.”

http://www.queerty.com/katy-perry-part-time-tranny-full-time-bimbo-20110706/