And I agree about having cis LGB people having their identities rejected, but they really have a choice when they do this . . . "
Again, I do think it's more complicated than making a choice and there are multiple identity issues smashing up against each other, but in spaces where cis LGB folks have made legislative inroads, it's crucial that T people not be excluded, not least because T people have always already been part and in forefront in the political movement and were part of building the fucking house, hence owning it.
It's like, when heterosexual people reject me as a lesbian, they tell me I just need a good man to make me into a woman. When cissexual people reject me as a woman, they tell me that I'm supposed to be a man and stop being such a deceptive faker.
I see the differences here, but I also see the similarities because authenticity is often a central tool for dismissing and discriminating against queer sexual orientations as well--and I think it's grounds on which cis lgb identities and t identities, and the identities of people who transition but do not wish to be regarded as t, and i folk, can clash in our communities.
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Date: 2009-07-27 04:59 pm (UTC)Again, I do think it's more complicated than making a choice and there are multiple identity issues smashing up against each other, but in spaces where cis LGB folks have made legislative inroads, it's crucial that T people not be excluded, not least because T people have always already been part and in forefront in the political movement and were part of building the fucking house, hence owning it.
It's like, when heterosexual people reject me as a lesbian, they tell me I just need a good man to make me into a woman. When cissexual people reject me as a woman, they tell me that I'm supposed to be a man and stop being such a deceptive faker.
I see the differences here, but I also see the similarities because authenticity is often a central tool for dismissing and discriminating against queer sexual orientations as well--and I think it's grounds on which cis lgb identities and t identities, and the identities of people who transition but do not wish to be regarded as t, and i folk, can clash in our communities.