Risk, Danger, and Internalized Transphobia
It does something to you, growing up trans in this world, coming out, transitioning. It does something to you, knowing you are worth less. When you decide, if you decide, to take hormones, to have...
View ArticleTrans Woman of Color Erasure & Objectification
(so, this might seem weird, but in addition to its actual content, this post is laying the groundwork for an analysis of the silence surrounding the recent anti-muslim terror attack in Ohio (see also....
View ArticlePut the Goddamn Space in: “transwoman”“transfeminism”“transmasculine” etc...
When I read Whipping Girl, I didn’t think that “transwoman” (without the space) was insulting/ungendering/whatever, but she’d asked for folks to stop, to put a space in between and make it two words,...
View ArticlePatriarchial Violence and Women’s Penises
“A [woman's] penis is a weapon. A sword. A knife. Dominance and sexism incarnate.” Yes–a weapon against her. A weapon threatening her life, a weapon demanding her submission to both male and cissexual...
View Article“Tranny” and Subversivism: Re-reclaiming “Tranny” (or not) part 1
My jumping off point here is a conversation I took part in at Camp Trans 2007. I had, up until that point, been using the word “tranny” in its “reclaimed” sense, as a gender neutral signifier for trans...
View ArticleYou call those statistics? What reality are you living in?
So, what’s one of the first things out of people’s mouth’s about trans people? We’re so rare, no one’s ever met us before, etc. The psychiatric community has, for the most part, invested heavily in...
View ArticleFemale Sexuality and The Two-Type Theory: Why “Autogynephilia” Matters
As with my post about the Standards of Care, I find myself not wanting to wade into the fray about Bailey/Blanchard/Lawrence or ‘autogynephilia’. It’s petty, it’s the same damn thing everybody’s always...
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