It would be nice if trans-poz feminists didn't, oh, say, completely misrepresent radfems' point of view on transpeople, in order to bash a strawfeminist.
Do I think a transperson, who wasn't raised as a person of their eventual gender, is going to be as indoctrinated as someone who was? Hell no. Which pretty much puts me completely in line with radfem thinking, and may strike some people as being transphobic, but tellya a secret -- I'm disabled, and wasn't raised entirely "as a girl" either, and I'm definitely on the outside of a lot of female discourse even now. Don't like it? Tough bananas; there is no way to change that.
Do I think transpeople are somehow "not real" people or something? Hell no again.
My major complaint in terms of trans issues is that I do wish some transpeople would not embrace gender stereotypes with the ferocity I have observed in some instances, namely because I personally want gender to go away entirely, and because every person who comes in to femininity from the outside and performs it better than a WBW raises the bar for performative femininity on every other woman, but that's basically an entirely other kettle of ruthlessly-gendered fish...
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realinterrobang.livejournal.com at 04:58pm on 2010-01-21
Do I think a transperson, who wasn't raised as a person of their eventual gender, is going to be as indoctrinated as someone who was? Hell no. Which pretty much puts me completely in line with radfem thinking, and may strike some people as being transphobic, but tellya a secret -- I'm disabled, and wasn't raised entirely "as a girl" either, and I'm definitely on the outside of a lot of female discourse even now. Don't like it? Tough bananas; there is no way to change that.
Do I think transpeople are somehow "not real" people or something? Hell no again.
My major complaint in terms of trans issues is that I do wish some transpeople would not embrace gender stereotypes with the ferocity I have observed in some instances, namely because I personally want gender to go away entirely, and because every person who comes in to femininity from the outside and performs it better than a WBW raises the bar for performative femininity on every other woman, but that's basically an entirely other kettle of ruthlessly-gendered fish...