I just watched Danielle Foxx’s video on YouTube about why she used the word ‘tranny’ in the URL of her new website. Personally the word doesn’t bother me nearly as much as it used to, but still I have a problem with her attitude towards her (very legitimate) critics as she takes ten minutes to essentially say, ‘I did it for the money and if you have a problem, it’s your problem.’ She further goes on to attempt to turn things back onto said critics by telling them that they should become more comfortable with the word, too. That’s REALLY not her call.

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While some of us don’t really care about questionable terminology being used to describe us on an individual level, there are more of us that do and those opinions should be respected instead of rejected because the labels used for us in the porn business are only accepted insofar as they promote the niche. In fact, I’ve even noticed a recent trend to cut back on excessive uses of the words ‘tranny’ and ‘shemale’ by many producers. In Danielle’s case however, she’s post-op so her use of the terminology indicates an attitude of ‘once a tranny, always a tranny’ that would be far too easy for the majority cisgendered population to latch on to. That’s not good.

I’ve always agreed that gender is defined between the ears and not between the legs so it seems that all that surgery has not helped Danielle achieve peace or womanhood – I’d argue that she became a woman when she started LIVING HER LIFE accordingly – but since she got her SRS it seems that her attitude has actually regressed as evidenced by her insistence to use the word tranny in her website URL, her continued appearances on Maury, and her return to drag performing. Apparently she realized that it was more financially beneficial to be a pre-op than a post-op and so her gender between her ears has shifted accordingly back to something not quite male and not quite female, but something in between. There’s nothing wrong with that if that’s how she wants to live, but I also find it hysterically ironic. I am also saddened by the fact that I’ve been in the place where Danielle now is, teetering between what’s right and what’s right for me, and I’d offer to help if I didn’t know for sure my offer would be rudely rebuffed. I don’t attack Danielle because I dislike her. To the contrary, I only dislike what she does and the fact that she systematically fails to see the negative consequences of her greedy actions to the transsexual ‘community’ at large.

There are plenty of transwomen whose lives do not entirely revolve around ‘sucking dick for a living,’ as Danielle has so eloquently put it to me (even if that IS what they do for work – a job is not who you are), and they should not be forced to be belittled and marginalized because some individuals in the porn business are selfishly trying to make a buck by continuing to use derogatory terminology instead of seizing opportunities to change it.

Danielle’s not making a sacrifice to promote the niche or any other porn stars or even a company that helps promote other transsexual talent so that more of us can get our surgeries and move on with our lives. Instead, she completes the transition she thought for sure would make her happy and when it doesn’t she then goes on to blame her bills for her questionable marketing as she sells out every time she appears on Maury or otherwise allows people to treat her as less than human because, well, they’re paying for it. Danielle could care less about transsexual rights despite her convenient mention in her video about needing to get ready for a fund-raiser and so she obviously still hasn’t learned that money can’t solve all of our problems. She’s blown countless opportunities to give something big back in terms of symbolism and leadership by example over the span of her career but yet she wants to brag about her philanthropic appearances as she simultaneously tells her ‘sisters’ to ‘get over it.’

Danielle Foxx cares only for her paycheck. That’s what happens when your rent is more than many other peoples’ entire monthly budgets. It’s what happens when you believe that money (or surgery) will solve all of your problems. Just because someone has a spending problem, that doesn’t make it OK for them to frivolously waste all of their precious publicity to serve their own ends exclusively and simultaneously become a negative stereotype for all other people like her.

~BB~