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Catherine Brennan, aka “bugbrennan”: REMOVE ALL SITES COMPLETELY.
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This petition is reprinted below in its entirety as it appeared on 12-30-13. Links to the petition are highlighted in red. Clicking one of these links will open a new tab and take you directly to the petition.
Stop Cathy Brennan -Cyberbullying, Sexual Harassment, and Exploitation of Minors
(see other complaint methods below)
Previously and perhaps still an attorney in Maryland, Catherine Brennan, also known as bugbrennan, has repeatedly made several post on her web sites releasing personal info about specific individuals without consent including transgender teens, which is the exploitation of minors. If you have info on and or have been harassed by this woman as a minor, please contact the Baltimore Police Department: http://www.baltimorepolice.org/ The next step after getting the sites down will be pressing charges and prosecution for exploitation of minors and sexual harassment.You may also make child exploitation reports at The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children: https://report.cybertip.org/
Click here to sign the petition on change.org
Please See The History Of Cathy Brennan’s Abuse: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Cathy Brennan
Please help stop Cathy Brennan from cyber bullying and harassing transgendered male-to-female individuals as well as other groups of people, including transgender teens. She has repeated used names, images, and screenshots of individual’s user accounts and messages from Facebook, Twitter,and other social networking sites. She does so with intent to deface, derail, and openly discriminate against trans-women or anyone for that matter that she does not like. This behavior has been going on for years and her persistence is tactful with intentionally provoking individuals to get angry with her and then use this messages to claim that the individual is a woman hater. Her insanity and belligerence is disgraceful to anyone whom identifies within and or supports the LGBTQ communities as well as women’s rights. It is believed she uses her previous experience as an attorney to tactfully get away with her actions, claiming freedom of speech by posting people’s personal online information without consent. Freedom of speech is one matter, abuse of this freedom is another. The main sites in question where she post personal info derailing trans-women:
http://pretendbian.wordpress.com/ and
http://bugbrennan.com/ and
http://privilegedenyingtranny.wordpress.com
there is also other accounts that I am collecting at the moment, and will add them as I find them. She provokes individuals using her facebook account https://www.facebook.com/iambugbrennan and her twitter account https://twitter.com/bugbrennan and post without consent on these sites as well. She screen-shots the conversions as they are happening. How to contact the domain name server for all wordpress sites including: bugbrennan.com in which also has discrimination and cyber bullying. By contacting the domain name servers directly, a possible chance of removing the sites faster could be initiated. Both seemed to be owned by wordpress. Her previous tumbler account that contained similar abuse was shut down through another petition.
Click here to sign the petition on change.org
Domain Name: BUGBRENNAN.COM Created on: 13-Dec-11 Expires on: 13-Dec-12 Last Updated on: 13-Dec-11 Private, Registration BUGBRENNAN.COM@domainsbyproxy.com Domains By Proxy, LLC DomainsByProxy.com 14747 N Northsight Blvd Suite 111, PMB 309 Scottsdale, Arizona 85260 United States (480) 624-2599 Fax -- (480) 624-2598 Domain servers in listed order: NS1.WORDPRESS.COM NS2.WORDPRESS.COM
The Following Site Should Also be Informed of Her Actions: this could be her next attempt to repeat the abuse again though this site currently says under construction:
Registrant: Domain Name: RECESSIONFATIGUE.COM Record expires on 25-Feb-2014. Record created on 25-Feb-2009. Database last updated on 23-Oct-2012 22:08:59 EDT. Domain servers in listed order: NS25.WORLDNIC.COM 205.178.190.13 NS26.WORLDNIC.COM 206.188.198.13
Other places to make reports of abuse: Although the following abuse pages are for situations regarding this, Cathy repeatedly counter acts all complaints by saying you harassed her. Also be aware that both facebook and twitter could care less about any threat to children or minors and will usually avoid any investigation into the matter, however repeated reports may help remove her social networking accounts as well.
Click here to sign the petition on change.org
Her pretendbian site is on wordpress, you can use the wordpress complaint page to issues a complaint: http://en.wordpress.com/complaints/
Facebook Abuse Violations Page: http://www.facebook.com/help/263149623790594/
Twitter Abuse Violations Page: http://support.twitter.com/groups/33-report-abuse-or-policy-violations#
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Sayonara
I haven’t posted in some time. I have a number of posts almost ready to publish, but it seems that something always comes up and they don’t get posted. And now it looks as though I won’t be posting for a while. 😦
I’ve been called “cis scum.” That hurts. I’ve been that told I have no clue and could never possibly understand what it means or feels like to be trans. And while that’s true, I do know what it’s like to be unhappy with and uncomfortable in one’s own body, I do know what it’s like not to conform to society’s gender expectations and face the social consequences for acting accordingly, I do know what it’s like to be “on the outside, looking in” and never fitting in, and yes, I’ve done the “imagine-one-day-waking-up-and-discovering-you-had-a-penis” exercise and FFS, I’d cut the f’ing thing off. But today I was accused of trans appropriation and because of that, I am taking a break from writing this blog.
“Cultural appropriation is the adoption of some specific elements of one culture by a different cultural group.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_appropriation. From a social justice standpoint, the word appropriation is used to describe “instances where a dominant and/or majority group takes up some tangible or intangible aspect of a marginalized and/or minority community,” and is discussed at length in “Considering Trans and Queer Appropriation” in the TransAdvocate. Infact, the TransAdvocate is an overall excellent source of information regarding trans issues. They’re also on Facebook.
I do not exploit people. I have no ulterior motives or sinister intentions in writing this blog. I am disabled, have almost no energy and most of what little energy I have goes into advocating for LGBT people on Facebook with an emphasis on the “T.” I have absolutely nothing to gain from advocating for people, except for maybe a small feeling of usefulness to the world, once every now and then (I have felt like a pathetic, useless waste of DNA since I became disabled and unable to work 7+ years ago.) Most cis people do not go to trans “places” online. I do. So I take what I learn to cis people. Cis people have read my blog. Trans people have thanked me for writing it. Cis people have thanked me too—for clarifying and answering questions that they did not want to ask for fear of offending.
The Onus of Creating Trans* Acceptance Does Not Lie on Trans* People. That is a statement, the title of a blog entry in Genderwork and a link to that blog entry. Read it. What the statement means is that it is not the responsibility of trans people to fight for acceptance of trans people: It is the responsibility of cisgender people to accept trans people. I accept trans people but not all cis people do. I consider it my responsibility to do whatever I can to change this. I acknowledge my cis privilege and I am trying to use that privilege for good—not for evil. I fail to see how this can possibly be perceived as a bad thing.
All I did was to ask for permission from the members in a Facebook group to use quotes—anonymous quotes—so that I would not be appropriating trans experience by describing it, but would be using the words of actual trans people to tell cis people how their ignorant and/or insensitive comments and questions are experienced by trans individuals. After having my motives questioned, even after I stated that I would absolutely not quote anything said by the one person who was creating all the fuss, I was essentially scolded by the group administrator—the cis group administrator—who informed me in a rather condescending manner that I need to get better at listening to trans people vis-à-vis the type of advocacy that helps. I guess I’m supposed to feel grateful that I wasn’t called “cis scum.” I don’t.
So, I’m done. At least for now. You don’t want my voice? I’m gone. Have a wonderful day.
Trans* Cister 