Following on the heels of the usual accusations and privilege, one of the things that becomes obvious is that to be transgender, one must be “cis-sexual” as well.
Once you change your body to match your brain, you no longer are “transsexual” as the two are in alignment. The TG will deny that “transsexual” goes away, but the real transsexual-born know better. The transgender are very hung up on reproduction in their denial of my identity as a woman and claim that if I can’t have babies, I am not a real woman.
Further, if I somehow had a procedure done so that I could bear children, I have it on good TG authority I still wouldn’t be a woman, because I wasn’t “born that way”. To the transgender, people like me will never be real women. And that is the ultimate in abuse and control. They want control over our lives.
I reject their greedy, grasping advances and state without reservation that I am a woman, and no less a woman than any other. They have no say in the matter.
Turning to the other claims of the transgender proselytizers, they state that “cissexual” is when a person’s “gender” (or mind I suppose) is in alignment with their body, and they experience no “dysphoria” (whatever that is). But implicit in their denials of my womanhood is the notion that one cannot become “cissexual”, one must be born that way. Why?
I can only assume this is related to the deep shame and self-hatred that most of the transgender feel. They don’t feel there is a cure for these horrible feelings, and so there must be no cure for the body either. It is a case of transference. They transfer these feelings from their emotional anguish into their approach to their problem, and then further project it onto people who were born transsexual. Once they have “othered” these people it is an easy matter to demonize and punish.
The transgender as a group are made up of people who have a body that is in conflict with their desired gender role. One could say that their assigned “gender” is in conflict with their desired gender. At the same time they have no desire to actually change their body beyond a cosmetic affectation, if at all. And they certainly do not want to change the primary sexual characteristic, the genitals. If they did, they wouldn’t be transgender any more, they would be “transsexual” according to their definition.
Therefore, transgender must necessarily equate to “cissexual”.
Transgender and transsexual are polar opposites. You cannot be both. If your “gender” and your body are in alignment, you cannot be called “transgender”.
And a person who experiences no conflict between their body and their mind cannot be “transsexual” under anyone’s definition. Transgender people have no problems with their primary sexual characteristics, and desire to keep them. Transgender is, therefore, cissexual. Quod Erat Demonstrandum.
When transgender aggressors attack people who were born transsexual, they abuse cissexual privilege in doing so.
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What about “cissexuality” for the transsexual-born? Is it achievable for us? As a woman who has been through the treatment, I say YES. Without a doubt, without reservation! Surgery is the cure for that demon that has tortured you your whole life. The horrible problem you have been dealing with does have a resolution.
To all the currently transsexual women out there, I tell you that your salvation is at hand. Good surgery is everything you dreamed it was. It gives your life back to you.
Have hope.
Your dreams will come true.
Edit- I’d also like to take this opportunity to add that a new friend of mine, Circe, has joined us in this fight against the transgender construct. Circe’s blog can be found at http://ilseofcirce.wordpress.com/ . Congratulations on your new blog, and welcome! =)
September 13, 2009 at 7:17 pm |
If you’ll allow me to get my geek on.
“People are stupid. Given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything.”
‘Wizard’s First Rule’, by Terry Goodkind
September 13, 2009 at 7:41 pm |
lol =) geek ping!
September 14, 2009 at 1:22 am |
Thank you for the plug aria
Love your article, way to go.
September 14, 2009 at 2:36 am |
“Surgery is the cure for that demon that has tortured you your whole life. The problem you have been dealing with does have a resolution.”
This is ~so~ true!
Thanks, Aria.
September 14, 2009 at 3:07 am |
cis this cis that !geeze those words are something that is only used by TeeGees & homo`s.
People in society have not a clue about all the CIS stuff.
Aria, the aggressors are just men, most of the tg activist are men. Look at their blog sites it is evident, just men pushing more male privilege.
I know this isn`t really on topic, but had to voice it anyway. Have a nice day…….
September 14, 2009 at 6:36 am |
Your article makes a lot of sense, Aria. For a transsexual person, surgery removes the conflict between mind and body, therefore the person is no longer transsexual, and has become cissexual. The awful affliction that is transsexualism is cured.
Transgenderism on the other hand is never cured. In fact, the transgender wouldn’t want to be cured. They enjoy being transgendered. To cure a transgender would require that the person’s desired gender be in harmony with their body. The cure would be to reverse their desired gender, and they wouldn’t want that.
Transgenders are cissexual because their desired physical sex is in harmony with their body’s sex (they want to keep their genitals intact). If the transgender wanted genital surgery, it would make them transsexual.
September 14, 2009 at 7:11 am |
An error:
Cissexual means that one’s sex identity that is, sense of what sex they are) is in alignment with one’s physical sex.
Cissexual has nothing to do with gender, at all.
The cis* form that has anything to do with gender would be cisgender, the correlative to transgender.
It is possible for a transgender person to be cissexual. The best example of this is your typical Tri-ess member, a transvestite or crossdresser.
The assertion of born that way actually relies on the assertion that one is born transsexual or otherwise gender variant. That is to say, if a transsexual is born such, then a cissexual is born such — if transsexuals are not born, then neither are cissexual — and if cissexual are not born then neither are transsexuals.
Since transsexualism is a known medical condition with a great deal of evidence indicative of physiological etiology, one can fairly easily state that someone is born cissexual for the same reasons.
As a result, your assertion is fundamentally flawed, since transgender can be concomitant with cissexual, but does not equate cissexual (iow — you are wrong, and you failed to QED).
Not your fault, though — you don’t have a grounding in the terminology, and so are likely to make mistakes and errors of this sort.
On the flip side, some things you are correct on:
1. “One could say that their assigned “gender” is in conflict with their desired gender.” This is correct, despite the scare quotes.
2. To all the currently transsexual women out there, I tell you that your salvation is at hand. Good surgery is everything you dreamed it was. It gives your life back to you.
3. Have hope.
4. Your dreams will come true.
September 14, 2009 at 11:28 am |
“Not your fault, though — you don’t have a grounding in the terminology, and so are likely to make mistakes and errors of this sort.”
I suppose you have PhD in terminology too? Fascinating!
“It is possible for a transgender person to be cissexual. ”
It is not only possible, it is required as I have outlined. Your changing the definition of transgender to include both people born with birth defects and panty wankers does not change reality. Words have to be connected to reality, but they do not define it. This is the problem with post modern thinking of the sort you and other transgender preachers enjoy.
“Cissexual means that one’s sex identity that is, sense of what sex they are) is in alignment with one’s physical sex.”
So you concede that transsexual people can be made cissexual. Thank you.
And I put “gender” in scare quotes to denote that it is complete and utter bullshit as a concept to define who people are. This is the fundamental flaw with “transgender”.
The rest of your post-modern rambling doesn’t address anything I say, though I’m sure you can’t see why.
September 14, 2009 at 11:41 am |
Oh, I know Holly. I just felt like writing something that shows even by their own BS terminology they are wrong. It just demonstrates how ridiculous the whole “cis” thing is.
I think in the long run it’s going to be more productive to destroy the notion of “gender identity” in its entirety. Money’s horrifying creation needs to be put down once and for all. I’ll get back to other stuff next, I promise. =)
September 14, 2009 at 2:09 pm |
Homos?
When is the unnecessary hate speech stuff going to end?
September 14, 2009 at 2:22 pm |
One would think that since Money’s pet theory of nurture was debunked years ago, we’d be past it effects but nooooooo, we have the Transgender nonces that keep trying to shove it down everyone’s throat.
Transgender is nothing more than a political tool used to fool everyone into thinking that everyone is the same= call me Norma and let me in your women’s washrooms. Sorry, but men in dresses or those who play at gender are still using their male priveledge when attempting to take over the lives of women that are real transsexuals or intersex.
September 14, 2009 at 2:33 pm |
Right on Holly!
Circé Says;
“Transgender is nothing more than a political tool used to fool everyone into thinking that everyone is the same= call me Norma and let me in your women’s washrooms. Sorry, but men in dresses or those who play at gender are still using their male priveledge when attempting to take over the lives of women that are real transsexuals or intersex.,/i>
Very well said, this is the fraud that is transgender.
September 14, 2009 at 3:16 pm |
T-girl, you have your opinion & I have mine. I`m not one to be much
For political correctness in words. Having seen a number of your posts
On different blogs it appears as you don`t add much other than to attempt
To pick apart what one states. In all the different posts it is that persons
Opinion, so get over it.
Homo activist is my opinion and my words ,has nothing to do with hate.
Not liking & hating are not the same thing.
If you don`t like what I post then don`t read my posts.
September 14, 2009 at 6:25 pm |
I know that people argue terms, and I can understand how some words go back and forth when certain parties (aka the TG) want to call us all men. But think!
ATG has a valid point, and I think it’s something people should pay attention to if we want to stop this TG insanity.
It can pay dividends to consider how things sound to other people, people who aren’t the target of your anger. There are plenty of gay men and lesbian women who would like nothing more that to shove the transvestites off their fight for rights. But they aren’t going to help us if we try to tar them with that same brush. Also, it gives the TG an opening to continue the same sort of nonsense with all those accusations we are so fond of hearing. There is also the concern of tone when considering the reactions of the general public.
I’m not going to tell people how to act. But if people choose to continue using words that have a negative connotation in the public mind, or that even border on actual open hate speech, it is going to do a lot of harm.
September 14, 2009 at 10:31 pm |
Point taken aria … I will refrain from using slur words in my writings and substitute PC words while my brain continues to think what I can’t write say or feel.
Maybe then ATG will quit with this incessent correcting of everyones points of view and manner of expression. It gets tiresome and one has to wonder sometimes what team she is playing on
… no wait I forgot…
she is the damned referee!
September 15, 2009 at 12:23 am |
i’m on no one’s team. Maybe you missed that.
And there’s no such thing as a referee in a war. If you think this is a game, you underestimate how seriously we take this.
Aria and i have a working partnership for a specific goal. And i also happen to like and agree with SA-ET on the same goal. Everything i’ve said that you object to (inflammatory speech, misgendering, etc.), SA-ET has said before as well.
You either have a short term memory, a selective memory, or an intent to find reasons to be pissed at me, no matter what.
Frankly, Aria and i are tired of watching a few older transsexual women fuck it up and drag many others down in their clumsy anger.
If you want to get the transgender movement off your back, you’ve got to think tactically. We’re trying an approach that’s more aggressive, yet focused and civilized as well.
Don’t give them an excuse. Giving in to anger and inflammatory speech is the same as giving ground. Think before posting.
It has nothing to do with being ‘PC’.
There’s no rational point to words like ‘faggot’ and ‘homo’. And if these two words, and the two times i objected to them are how you define ‘incessant’, you and Leigh both need to get a dictionary.
Aria and i are just asking you to stop and think before you post. Stop posting in anger for fuck’s sake. Think.
i don’t have any animosity toward you.
But if you keep hammering on me, i can put you on speed dial for my shit-list. i will only tolerate so much.
Stop taking everything personally, and think in terms of the movement. Think.
September 15, 2009 at 12:45 am |
Bullshit!
I and others have been on speed-dial for your shit list forever .. or did you forget where you wrote that you will “call me out at every opportunity” over at your friend Dyssonance’s site.
And frankly, if you and Aria are tired of watching us old farts fuck it up, us old farts will be quite happy to leave the pair of you to fight the “war” on your own because quite frankly honey, if you’re any example of the ungrateful little prig we are dping this for, I would be just as happy to go sit on the porch and watch you cook in your own rightous juices.
September 15, 2009 at 12:59 am |
There’s only two people on my list, Leigh.
You *were* one of them (making three), per that post you reference, but all was made well when you apologized, and i accepted.
i’m actually pretty good with both you and anoldfriend. So’s Aria, as far as i know.
i don’t doubt you when you say you don’t ‘hate’ anybody, but you’ve got to think of how allies and supporters are going to see it.
There are a lot of gays and lesbians who are not fond of trangender appropriation. Why would you want to risk offending them?
September 15, 2009 at 1:41 am |
“I suppose you have PhD in terminology too? Fascinating!”
No, but you might study the nature of pragmatics within sociology in order to grasp where I am coming from. That’s important, because my PhD is in theoretical Sociology, which is inclusive of language and required me to engage in a pretty intensive set of studies there. Required when youfield is basically the creation of a complete culture from scratch.
It is not required — such is a fallacy. Indeed, all it would take is a transsexual person decide to be a drag performer. Which is not only not out of the realm of possibility, but a fact of every day life.
No, I do not concede such a point, as you ignored the other aspect I pointed out entirely, which is rude, and, in doing so, you lie about me.
I will concede the point would be applicable ONLY if transsexualism is not something one is born with. As neither you nor I hold that position, its unlikely.
Let me make this clear: one is born cissexual just as one is born transsexual. You cannot become one or the other.
And everything I wrote was not post modern, and it dealt in precisely what you wrote.
So, I call you on that point: prove that the rest of what I wrote has nothing to do with what you wrote.
Please.
As for gender being a bullshit concept for defining people, your understanding is flawed at the very point you think that gender defines anyone.
It describes them, but does not define them.
September 15, 2009 at 1:51 am |
Oh how big of you to remove me from your shit-list you pathetic little dickwad! Well too late because you just hit my number one slot and from here on out you can consider me your nemesis.
September 15, 2009 at 1:54 am |
and Dyssonnance … go find a transgender genderqueer tranny quuen to spew your stupid logic on, we are tired of your word games and hypocritical advocacy that falls short of your bastard child Jasper.
September 15, 2009 at 1:55 am |
Aria .. you may now ban me.. gDay!
September 15, 2009 at 1:58 am |
In Japanese culture, when someone has lost control of themselves, the recipitant of the negative behavior feels empathy shame for the person, rather than anger.
Which is displayed by quietly walking away, and giving them the time they need to compose themselves.
September 15, 2009 at 2:12 am |
I’m not banning anybody. People are all different, and we all have our limits. I respect Leigh a lot for who she is and how she has made it through everything in life on her own terms, with no apologies. That’s not a common story these days.
But it is a story a lot of us share here, I think. I know ATG’s background is a lot like mine, being both from the same generation and sharing some of the same sorts of troubles that came with being Gen X.
I think there is a place for everyone in the discussion, no matter your age or transition status. We are all women, we are all equal. We need no heirarchy to tell us how to be, or whom to follow.
There are some very strong opinions here, and lots of feelings that ride a knife edge. Conflict is inevitable. It’s how we recover from the insults and injuries that either forge bonds, or create divides. Sometimes it’s best to part ways, and sometimes fights can bring people to at least respect each other.
Everyone is responsible for their own peace.
September 15, 2009 at 4:31 am |
Sure – walk away but spare me your condesending platitudes … Oh wait .. perhaps I don’t know what that means .. never mind I know this one .. stick it in your ear!
September 15, 2009 at 5:18 am |
Don’t do it. You don’t know where that finger’s been…
September 15, 2009 at 4:42 pm |
No worries, Aria.
i’m straight, and don’t accept random weird offers from other women…
November 15, 2009 at 10:13 pm |
I am new here, and I am sensing a great deal of non productive anger and wasted energy. It seems to me,that if the agreed upon goal is to draw a clear distinction between transsexual, (HBS’er) and Transgender, then a simple statement of facts might be in order.
It is my belief that once the discussion has progressed beyond that distinction, then the next step would be how to bring that distinction to the attention of the media.
If, as seems to be the case, there can be no discussion without personal attacks and insults, then I would suggest to the moderator that it behooves them to exclude those from the discussion that can not adhere to simple standards of polite interaction.
I realize this flies in the face of the principles of “Free Speech. Nevertheless, if the goal is public education then “Jerry Springer” type rules of engagement are self defeating
November 16, 2009 at 12:01 pm |
If you think you’ll ever persuade these “women”, or these, or this one, or especially this one… good luck.
November 20, 2009 at 8:01 am |
I wandered over to Bilerico to see what all the fuss is about. Ran across the following….
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What Transmisogyny Looks Like
Filed by: Tobi Hill-Meyer
March 25, 2009 9:30 AMThis is a topic that has been vital to my understanding of the world over the past few years, but it’s still relatively unknown outside certain circles of activists. When I mention it as an area of my work, I almost invariably have to explain what it is. The short answer is that it is the intersection of transphobia and misogyny that specifically targets trans women. But that dry academic answer never communicates the visceral and intense experience that it is.
Here’s a limited list of examples of what transmisogyny looks like. Every example on this list has a story (or dozens of stories) behind it.
Relationship and Sexual Violence
When trans women desperately in need of sexual assault or domestic violence services are turned away because their needs are considered less important than the hypothetical discomfort their presence might cause for others, that’s transmisogyny.
When activists encourage people not even to try to fight for trans women’s access to sexual assault and domestic violence services because of the possibility that it could leave trans men unable to access those services, that’s transmisogyny.
When I, personally, sought out support after being abused by my trans male partner and was told by a prominent genderqueer activist that because I’m a trans woman and felt validation in talking with cis women who have experienced abuse, I must have invented the abuse in an attempt to feel more like a woman by having an abusive boyfriend, that’s transmisogyny.
When a trans woman is brave enough to talk openly about surviving childhood violence and experiencing rape, only to be told that her pain is less valid or important than cis women’s experience of sexism, that’s transmisogyny.
Gender Expression
When trans women who present femininely or assert a binary identity are blamed for perpetuating binary gender roles, while it’s forgotten that many or even more cis women do the same, that’s transmisogyny. (When cis women who present femininely are also blamed for perpetuating binary gender roles, that’s femmephobia)
When trans women have every aspect of their presentation examined and labeled either hyperfeminine and therefore fake or not feminine enough and therefore male, while the same traits would be seen as normal in cis women, that’s transmisogyny.
When trans masculine spaces allows cis butch women to attend but turn away trans butch women, that’s transmisogyny. (When femme trans men are also turned away from those spaces, that’s femmephobia.)
Politics and Activism
When trans women and transfeminine genderqueers are assumed to be conformist, apolitical, and weak while trans men and transmasculine genderqueers are assumed to be radical, with it, and hip, that’s transmisogyny (and femmephobia, and subversivism).
Specifically, when I present in a butch or genderfuck way and people assume I’m radical, politically knowledgeable and pay attention to me, but when I present femininely I am ignored, that’s transmisogyny (and femmephobia and subversivism).
When trans women are told that they are politically ignorant when they object to trans men “reclaiming” a derogatory term that has been used specifically against trans women and not against trans men, that’s transmisogyny.
When almost every local trans group in my state (and likely a majority in other states) are run by trans men and attended by a significant majority of trans men, yet people still complain about trans women dominating groups and point to inappropriate behavior by Virginia Prince and other transfeminine activists from decades ago as if it’s representative of what’s happening today, that’s transmisogyny.
When there’s only one trans support group in town and it’s for transmale folks only, or only one comprehensive online network to discuss surgery results and it’s for transmale folks only, or only one foundation offering financial help accessing surgery and it’s for transmale folks only, that’s transmisogyny.
“Male Privilege”
When trans women are told that they need to stop being assertive and strong because it is a sign of male privilege – invariably by “feminists” who, of course, encourage cis women to be assertive and strong – that’s transmisogyny.
When trans women are pressured into being silent, rarely offering their opinion, and refusing leadership roles for fear of being seen as male or accused of having male privilege, that’s transmisogyny.
When trans women are afraid to analyze or discuss the role of male privilege in their life because of the way accusations of male privilege have been used as weapons to silence, shame, and misgender trans women, that’s transmisogyny.
When trans women do analyze and discuss the role of male privilege in their lives and come to different conclusions than the dominant cis feminist perspective and are told it is because they simply don’t understand privilege or are ignorant of feminism, that’s transmisogyny.
Community and relationships
When “women and trans” space allows everyone on a transmale spectrum to attend unquestioned (because even if their trans status is not respected, they would still be welcomed as a woman) yet people on a transfemale spectrum are subjected to scrutiny and those who are not “trans enough” are asked to leave, that’s transmisogyny.
When those same “women and trans” spaces, or even the ones that don’t police entrance, are attended by a dozen or so trans men yet zero or only one or two trans women, that’s transmisogyny. (It obviously indicates that they don’t feel welcome, don’t trust the organizers, or weren’t outreached to.)
When queer women’s spaces have trans women inclusive policies, yet any trans women who attend are generally ignored or not included in discussions, that’s transmisogyny.
While it’s true that individual preferences in partners are complicated, when large swaths of queer women’s community exotify trans men or identify as trans-sensual or even “tranny chasers” while being clear that they will not consider trans women as potential partners, that’s transmisogyny (and in some cases, general transphobia or cissexist exotification as well).
When people who are attracted to women and have met only a few trans women announce that they would never date a trans women, that’s transmisogyny. (Think about it, if a white person announced that they’d never date a black woman, especially if they had only met 2-3 black women in their life, we’d name that as being influenced by racism.)
Sexualization
When the main way to diagnose fetishistic transvestitism or autogynophilia is to look for the presence of sexual enjoyment, and trans women who enjoy their sexuality risk being given one of those diagnoses and denied trans related health care, that’s transmisogyny.
When being sexually available to men and not interested in your own sexual gratification is another way to prove that you are not a fetishistic transvestite or autogynophile, that’s transmisogyny.
When doctors encourage target testosterone levels significantly lower than cis women’s average levels requiring high doses of testosterone blockers, and when the most common testosterone blocker reduces sexuality in addition to blocking testosterone, that’s transmisogyny. (When that’s something that trans women are asking for themselves, it’s more complex, but probably still influenced by transmisogyny somewhere
Comments?
And that’s just what I came up with last night. I haven’t even mentioned issues around law enforcement and prisons. What other experiences of transmisogyny have you seen or experienced?
November 20, 2009 at 8:45 am |
MORES TUFF FROM BILERCO…….
ps FEEL FREE TO RUN ME OUT ANYTIME. I HAVE NO DOG IN THIS FIGHT.
Ok, where do I start.
Austen is arrogant, self-righteous, lacking any sort of historical perspective, but unfortunately she’s just saying things that happen to be an accurate depiction of our political reality. Just because her logic is rooted in narrow minded cissexist bigotry doesn’t make it less true.
I’m a transgender woman. I was at one point a homeless transgender youth, and know all to well the plight transpeople suffer at times to be true to themselves. I’m also originally from the deep south, trust me that was a fun and exciting childhood. Of course I’m much more interested in social and economic justice than marriage equality. I’m still trying to get some cake, and you guys want the icing. Anyways, that’s a whole different discussion.
I live in Brooklyn these days, and like most transpeople of course I’m aware that we get thrown under the bus for political expedience with gusto.
We are marginalized and basically have the same sort of political pull that the Gay community had in the early 70’s. The gay community, composed of white middle class gay men is driving this bus. They’re mostly ok with lesbian women as copilots but that’s it. Lesbians didn’t really get a voice until the Women’s Lib movement gave them one, and they claimed their power from the gay men in charge. Also what’s this B. I mean who are we kidding LGB community. If we’re going to start being honest, then let’s be honest. Yes of course there are bi people, but they don’t have any say more than Trans people. Probably less. Transpeople have more visibility than Bi people. Old white gay men, when asked will tell you there is Gay, Straight and lying.
The entire acronym is a polite fiction. The true acronym is GL, in that order.
Just ask the LGBT Center in Manhattan. They added the BT sometime in the early 2000’s. The url is of course still proudly http://www.gaycenter.org. They spent as half as much on a yearly party, the Garden Party, on one day as they spent on everything related to Transgender people for the 2008 tax year. 90k on the Garden Party, and 180k on Gender Identity Project (god I hate that name, goes back to having our identity medically pathologized). Yes, the LGBT Center in NYC gives trans people the same funding priority as initiatives supporting Lesbians with cancer and an LGBT centric tobacco cessation campaign. If you dispute my numbers, then feel free to look at their 2008 990.
Anyways my point is that we’re extremely marginalized within the community and speaking to that is the first step. I mean an inclusive ENDA is all well and good but it’s DOA in the Senate and isn’t going to be a legislative priority now or anytime in the immediate future. Obama isn’t going to fight for us. He’s hardly willing to fight for Gay people, much less thans people. He’s post-partisan. Which means, he’s going to tolerate the crazy people (ie. the far right evangelicals who hijacked the GOP), until they slowly commit political suicide. It would be nice if he would just kill them off like the Whigs were in the 1850’s. But it looks as if they’re going to become a rump party. At which point we might get some crumbs. Sometime in the next 5-10 years.
You see, Obama is a very good politician. Very good politicians, I think have world views rooted in realpolitik and machtpolitik. Yes I’m talking about hardcore Machiavellian stuff here. The Bismarcks and LBJ’s of the world get things done, granted accoriding to their own agendas. Bismarck was a cold hearted ruthless bastard, who utterly destroyed the French in the Franco-Prussian war, but he also gave the German people universal healthcare, old age pensions and universal education. LBJ stole his first election, he was pretty brazen about it too. He was a master politician, kind of like Obama, just with bigger stones and not as much charisma. He gave us the civil rights and voting rights act. If he hadn’t been a Machiavellian arm twister he probably couldn’t have done it.
Anyways, let me recap. Austen is arrogant, self-righteous, narrow minded… (well I could go on.) and factually accurate. The sad fact though is she’s just saying, putting into words what is the reality. We get thrown under the bus, over and over.
As a transperson, as someone interested in political activism, I have to understand that I’m a member of an extremely marginalized minority group within a still marginalized group. Granted we do have some positives, Middle America is generally more ok with “ugly men in dresses” these days than they are with graphic descriptions of gay sex. Yay Oprah!! I don’t think she’ll be discussing the acceptance of rimming anytime soon but she gives a voice to transpeople.
I’m not going to make the same mistake, that Austen’s making though. She has to understand that a fundamental component of the political process is subterfuge, both open and covert. You let sleeping dogs lie. Because if you do; you might be able to squeeze some advantage out of them.
AS transpeople we should more focused with claiming internal power, than playing sacrificial lambs. We need to be more focused on getting inside the dominant power structures that govern our movement. The HRC for one. That’s a perfectly good place to start. We just need some good Manchurian candidates.
StoicLibertine | November 12, 2009 2:07 AM
November 20, 2009 at 4:03 pm |
Why are you reposting articles and commentry from bilerico on this blog ?
November 21, 2009 at 3:26 pm |
For the same reason they have very deliberately avoided my direct question at EN, for fear that i know how to tell if they are lying.
This individual is not when they are portraying themselves to be.
November 22, 2009 at 1:28 am |
watch out ATG .. saying stuff like that is likely to make Zoe Brains prediction on EN come to fruit.
November 23, 2009 at 6:36 pm |
Just curious.what is “EN”?
November 24, 2009 at 5:39 am |
It’s the loading platform for trollercoasters.
November 25, 2009 at 7:24 am |
OK……….JUST WANT TO BE CLEAR HERE. I DID NOT POST THE VITRIOLIC DIATRIBE DATED NOV 20TH 2009 BEGINNING WITH………. “Ok, where do I start. Austen is arrogant, self-righteous…………”
YOU GUYS WANNA PLAY GAMES? COUNT ME OUT.
November 25, 2009 at 8:36 am |
WHOOOPS!!! I TAKE THAT BACK!! I DID POST THAT. PLEASE ACCECPT MY HUMBLEST APOLOGIES.
To answer your question, Leigh, re-post that article from Bilerco, because I think what is being said has value. What do you think?
Also, I really would like to know the meaning of EN.