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It's International Day Against Transphobia and Homophobia!
From IDAHO:
http://idahomophobia.net/spip.php?page=sommaire_eng
(Scroll down to the last NEWS heading for more information).
Reject Transphobia, Respect Gender Identity: An Appeal to the United Nations, the World Health Organisation and the States of the World.
My plan - such as it was, having found this out this morning - was to talk about how Homophobic actions/reactions and transphobic actions/reactions are often conflaited by the people doing the actions/reactions.
As in:
In our culture, biological sex, sexual orientation, gender identification, and gender presentation are conflaited:
Male=Man=Masculine=Hot-for-Chicks,
Female=Woman=Feminine=Hot-for-Dudes.
Jaknow?
So if someone who doesn't grok that these different categories are (A) fluid, and (B) mix-and-matchable, sees someone like this:
Male=Woman=Androgynous
OR
Male=Man=Feminine
OR
Female=Genderqueer=Masculine-to-Androgynous-but-not-all-the-time
Or whatever...
The end result of that equation is:
= DOES NOT COMPUTE.
Idioglossia has talked to me about how words like "cis" aren't exactly in common parlance outside of sex!possitive-feminist and Q/T circles (online and off).
The kind of losers who holler "faaaaaaaaaaaaaaag" out the car window on Gladstone avenue are probably NOT in those circles. (Just a hunch).
Part of me is wondering if this is where the phrase "heteronormativity" comes from -- as in stuff that is associated with being hetero that is (also?) deamed as normative behaviour.
I think this - the conflation of those four categories - is why trans people get called queer by idiots who don't like seeing people who don't fit neatly/easily/perfectly into those conflated categories (either because they're mistaken for men in dresses or because they're men with feminine or "feminine enough" features -- I don't know if they're ever harrassed for being women with masculine or 'masculine enough" features for example, though they are definitely harrassed when they are mistaken for women, period).
Part of me is also wondering...
My girlfriend is occasionally mistaken for a man.
She says that, due to being tall and flat-chested and having hair that is above her shoulders, she looks pretty damn androgynous - particularly when she's in jeans and sneakers and her motorcycle jacket.
Part of me wonders if, when she's beside me (long hair, skirts, toenail polish, obvious purse) I don't push her further into the androgynous category in comparison.
- TTFN,
- Amazon.
From IDAHO:
http://idahomophobia.net/spip.php?page=sommaire_eng
(Scroll down to the last NEWS heading for more information).
Reject Transphobia, Respect Gender Identity: An Appeal to the United Nations, the World Health Organisation and the States of the World.
My plan - such as it was, having found this out this morning - was to talk about how Homophobic actions/reactions and transphobic actions/reactions are often conflaited by the people doing the actions/reactions.
As in:
In our culture, biological sex, sexual orientation, gender identification, and gender presentation are conflaited:
Male=Man=Masculine=Hot-for-Chicks,
Female=Woman=Feminine=Hot-for-Dudes.
Jaknow?
So if someone who doesn't grok that these different categories are (A) fluid, and (B) mix-and-matchable, sees someone like this:
Male=Woman=Androgynous
OR
Male=Man=Feminine
OR
Female=Genderqueer=Masculine-to-Androgynous-but-not-all-the-time
Or whatever...
The end result of that equation is:
= DOES NOT COMPUTE.
Idioglossia has talked to me about how words like "cis" aren't exactly in common parlance outside of sex!possitive-feminist and Q/T circles (online and off).
The kind of losers who holler "faaaaaaaaaaaaaaag" out the car window on Gladstone avenue are probably NOT in those circles. (Just a hunch).
Part of me is wondering if this is where the phrase "heteronormativity" comes from -- as in stuff that is associated with being hetero that is (also?) deamed as normative behaviour.
I think this - the conflation of those four categories - is why trans people get called queer by idiots who don't like seeing people who don't fit neatly/easily/perfectly into those conflated categories (either because they're mistaken for men in dresses or because they're men with feminine or "feminine enough" features -- I don't know if they're ever harrassed for being women with masculine or 'masculine enough" features for example, though they are definitely harrassed when they are mistaken for women, period).
Part of me is also wondering...
My girlfriend is occasionally mistaken for a man.
She says that, due to being tall and flat-chested and having hair that is above her shoulders, she looks pretty damn androgynous - particularly when she's in jeans and sneakers and her motorcycle jacket.
Part of me wonders if, when she's beside me (long hair, skirts, toenail polish, obvious purse) I don't push her further into the androgynous category in comparison.
- TTFN,
- Amazon.
