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First and Foremost: A Trans101 site. YAY!
When "Sex" Matters [in a Legal Context] to Trans People, from TRANScend GENDER.
I Don't Get Cis People Who Don't Get Trans People, (from Very Filled With Dreams). About having some freaking manners, what a concept.
From I'm Not Broken:
On Wanting the Outsides to Match the Insides, about transitioning and SRS,
AND
Transphobia Masquerading as Politeness,
AND
On Language and Gender in a "non-gendered" language.
From Sexual Ambiguities:
Disengaging, on Trasphobia and Feminism,
AND
How to Mourn, regarding Trans Day of Rememberance.
From Questioning Transphobia:
Evolving a Trans Vocabulary, on "Passing".
From Feministing: On Why Gender Presentation is a Feminist Issue:
My experience is different from what ciswomen experience on the street. Ciswomen are followed and targeted by cat calling because of their proximity to fitting into the predefined role of men’s inferior. Trans folk have these experiences because we don’t fit. But both groups are targets of the everyday vocalizations that reassert male supremacy because we are the other. We are not men, so we are objects.
You all have got to go and read this.
And, on a much happier note:
May 3rd is Gender Euphoria Day!
Unrelated Links:
A Comment on the Whole "A Storm is Gathering" Ad Campaign. Also happy-making. :-)
On Why Words Like “Fag” and “Gay” are Among the Most Potent and Feared Weapons in the School Bully’s Arsenal.
Related: Emily White's book Fast Girls: Teenaged Tribes and the Myth of the Slut has a discussion of how the terms "fag" and "slut" are gender-specific words for the same kind of thing: "Don't be sexual like [this]".
When "Sex" Matters [in a Legal Context] to Trans People, from TRANScend GENDER.
I Don't Get Cis People Who Don't Get Trans People, (from Very Filled With Dreams). About having some freaking manners, what a concept.
From I'm Not Broken:
On Wanting the Outsides to Match the Insides, about transitioning and SRS,
AND
Transphobia Masquerading as Politeness,
AND
On Language and Gender in a "non-gendered" language.
From Sexual Ambiguities:
Disengaging, on Trasphobia and Feminism,
AND
How to Mourn, regarding Trans Day of Rememberance.
From Questioning Transphobia:
Evolving a Trans Vocabulary, on "Passing".
From Feministing: On Why Gender Presentation is a Feminist Issue:
My experience is different from what ciswomen experience on the street. Ciswomen are followed and targeted by cat calling because of their proximity to fitting into the predefined role of men’s inferior. Trans folk have these experiences because we don’t fit. But both groups are targets of the everyday vocalizations that reassert male supremacy because we are the other. We are not men, so we are objects.
You all have got to go and read this.
And, on a much happier note:
May 3rd is Gender Euphoria Day!
Unrelated Links:
A Comment on the Whole "A Storm is Gathering" Ad Campaign. Also happy-making. :-)
On Why Words Like “Fag” and “Gay” are Among the Most Potent and Feared Weapons in the School Bully’s Arsenal.
Related: Emily White's book Fast Girls: Teenaged Tribes and the Myth of the Slut has a discussion of how the terms "fag" and "slut" are gender-specific words for the same kind of thing: "Don't be sexual like [this]".
