"How to Kill a Transperson"

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The following article was written for the March 2008 issue of The Empty Closet. It is available at The Empty Closet's website.

( How to Kill a Transperson )

Hello / An odd sort of transexual.

[janusjanice.livejournal.com]

    Hello group, first off I would like to say Hello and try to explain my own transgender feelings.  I am a male who feels a very strong female side, but it isn't the makeup and dress type of femininity.  I deeply admire females and feel I draw a lot of who I am from my years with my Lesbian aunt.  No female in my childhood really was all that 'girly' but there was a strength in them I couldn't find in the males.  Ironic as it is, most men I've met in my life have no hold on their own emotions, by ignoring them they are slave to them.

    Perhaps it was my aunts influence, but I always felt distant from other boys, always feeling different.  My feminine self grew stronger as I learned to love it, specially after reading "The Feminine Mystique" by Betty Friedan.  But, again, it wasn't the 'barbie doll' form of fem.  On top of that I began to realize that even with this type of feminity inside me, it was a type that could live in harmony with masculine traits.  It soon became easy for me to reconcile the fact that I was biologically male and yet felt like I had.  So in essence I am transgendered, but you'd never guess it :p.

Intersex

[phoenixvtam.livejournal.com]

The existence of persons who are physically intersex is a great big out-of-context problem for social conservatives who assert that "marriage should always be between one man and one woman". They can dismiss transexual⁄transgender people as "mentally disturbed perverts", but they cannot deal with the fact that there are people who naturally fall outside the gender binary; they have no answer to the question, God gave me both a penis and breasts. Which am I supposed to marry, a man or a woman?

Assuming they don't simply refuse to answer, social conservatives will tie themselves into knots trying to decide whether physical appearance or genetic makeup is a more accurate indicator of God's Will; failing to find an answer, they will usually declare that intersexed persons aren't allowed to have relationships at all unless they're "mostly" male or female and can be "fixed". They will almost invariably follow this up by claiming that intersex conditions are "extremely rare birth disorders" (which is absolutely false; they're playing games with the definition of intersex) and then going on to argue that intersex people should be ignored for the purposes of public policy because acknowledging them would fatally compromise traditional gender roles.

In other words, Your existence gives me a headache, so I demand that everyone has to pretend that you don't exist..

I think we do need to go out and rub their faces in the sheer illogic of it all, because once they're forced to acknowledge that This Really Happens, their case against transgender in general falls all to pieces.

Gender Identity -Disorder- do you agree with that term?.

[irish-deutsch.livejournal.com]

I realise that this must have been covered here in the past....but it never fails to annoy me when I hear it...-All- variance ...in all forms..is pathogenised...  This need not be the case.. I view myself as a variant....a naturaly occuring variant and not someone with -disorder- . It would be easier for some if I was diagnosed as mad..because that would render my feelings illegitmate... I feel that this term enshrines stigma....

Just watched a chat show here....where a Transsexual made frequent reference to the term Gender Identity -Disorder-... She was actualy a very good Trans representative in a lot of ways..related to her a lot.... But I hate that term...

I'm interested in hearing others views....positive, negative or indifferent...Do others feel I should accept that I have disorder ? Should I just accept the terminology....as it is basicaly the same distresss we all experience...however differently we view it....?.  The crux of my feeling is that I view all human beings....and animals as varying naturaly....and just because they are not typical....does not mean that they have a disorder....To be rare is disadvantageous....and can be a source of emotional distress...it has been for me...but does it warrant the term 'disorder'?

Thanks
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Hello / yet another "odd" one.

[rainsonggryphon.livejournal.com]

I am Rainsong, a resident awkward thingy who has the male bits but not the male brain... at least that's how it feels.

I'm the type who wears her hair long, wears colory pretty bracelets and things... and tends to arbitrarily switch back and forth between gender pronouns. ;p  Physically the curves on my face are WAY defined, as in you can INSTANTLY tell I'm male just by looking (at least I think so), yet still a lot of people can't seem to tell unless my voice gives it away.  I'm also so flat chested that my nipples and the surrounding area are small even by male standards, but I honestly wouldn't care if I found myself with a C-cup and an orifice in the place the banana and strawberries one day, so to speak.

But I fit 'third sex' more than anything else in mindset and behavior.  I really don't care what's considered macho or femme, I just do what I do, and that tends to be anywhere from Halo-type games to sewing.  I prefer cooking over sports, soft fabric over denim jeans, etc.

I'm normally a bit too shy for my own good, however, and might not even be posting this if not for the fact that another furry joined at about the same time I did.  ;p  So NEway, hi.  I hope to have more to say soon. ^^;