trans | (no subject)

I got to see a movie called Diagnosing Difference last night, and I want to recommend it to you. Usually, I totally hate any movie about trans people, but in this one- aside from some really minor quibbles about language- they actually did a very good job. It's a bunch of total badass trans heroes- Miss Major, Dean Spade, Sandy Stone, lots more- talking about the location of Gender Identity Disorder in the DSM-IV. It's awesome; there's no subtitles that say, like, 'bisexual trans man' or whatever, just folks' names and what they do; they don't offer any concrete solutions, just smart analysis; it's not all women, or all men, or only folks who aren't either, there's an actual array of experiences; same for how it's not all young people, or white people, or radical people. There's discussion of oppressions that intersect with gender variant experiences, and also there's cussing and jokes. If you get a chance, it's totally worth seeing.

Also, "GID: The Movie." That's hilarious.