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Trans People Are Relevant

Sue Kerr
6 min readMar 12, 2022

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Yesterday, a family friend of Matthew Spampinosa left a comment on this blog post about his death.

I was appalled enough to draft a message in response to her, but my gut tells me she isn’t going to hear me. So I opted to share my thoughts with you. After all, just today Georgia introduced their own “Don’t Say Gay” bill.

Note this quote below uses Matthew’s deadname and a strange allotment of pronouns.

Please understand the GFM was not meant to deadname Matthew. It was setup because it was too much to handle everyone reaching out and the Mom was busy traveling 13 hours one way with no sleep, going to make arrangements for her child and help find who did it. The GFM also states it is meant not be be disrespectful and it is not the organizers/my debate. Not everyone knew him as Matthew. Some knew him as Isabella. This child and I had a special bond and he knows I loved him no matter what he identified as. So did alot of others! I have always been supportive no matter what. I have been slammed by showing support in finding who did this when the focus isn’t words it’s finding who did this. Who wants to be bombarded with questions in such a tragic time by people who are not relevant when trying to find who did this. Matthew’s memorial will celebrate his life. I find it sad people judge when they don’t know details. This beautiful soul was taken way to…

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Sue Kerr
Sue Kerr

Written by Sue Kerr

I blog @ pghlesbian.com & tweet @pghlesbian24 GLAAD named us OUTstanding Blog in 2022 & 2019 National Media Awards Also I ❤soaps, cats, dogs & genealogy She/Her

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