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By: An Apology/Clarification « The Nice Feminist

An Apology/Clarification « The Nice Feminist — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 23:12:50 +0000

[...] little while ago, I wrote a post in response to some comments on a Feministe thread about whether or not it’s transphobic not to date a transgender [...]

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:42:56 +0000

Hi! Nice to meet you.

By: Hanna

Hanna — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:26:45 +0000

Just want to ask people talking about health care to check their privilege in re access to health care. Most trans people don’t have access to any health care at all. Personally, I’d never even heard of the DSM before I started transition. Most of us will never see a therapist, let alone a doctor. Most of us will get our hormones off the street.

How many people wanna bet the upcoming health care bill in the U.S. will have an explicit exemption of any kind of trans health care in it?

Things are going to get worse before they get better.

Grats on the guestblog score, Emily. Please, I beg of you, to be careful with your tendency towards conflation of gender and sex. Best wishes.

By: belledame222

belledame222 — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:51:01 +0000

btw, Lina @ Loserdust has conveniently gathered many 101 links (as in, the ones that have already been written and were already conveniently available in the sidebars of QT and other findable places, so really “even more conveniently”) into one post here, inspired precisely by this comment thread.

http://littlebitcheaper.blogspot.com/2009/06/dont-assume-right-to-101.html

By: Drakyn

Drakyn — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:48:22 +0000

I don’t like jellybeans.
Except for grass flavored ones & Nerds Jellybeans.
(please don’t banninate me Emmy! I is just Speaking My Truth)

By: belledame222

belledame222 — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:28:07 +0000

i.e., I think A.W. was saying, if you’re a trans man who’s into dudes, then being fetishized or chased is not your issue.

By: belledame222

belledame222 — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:24:59 +0000

Holly @99 I think A.W. was actually saying “is the opposite” to mean what you’re saying there. i.e. it’s the opposite experience of the cis gay female->trans men fetishization & chasing, w/cis gay men & trans men.

By: belledame222

belledame222 — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:14:26 +0000

“a trans what? A transformer? Far be it for me to stand against robot-human love.”

I’m glad you’re not going to stand against my love for Optimus Prime and his sexy, sexy voice.

Hmf. “Here I am, brain the size of a planet…”

By: belledame222

belledame222 — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:11:50 +0000

I think licorice flavored anything is one of those love it or hate it deals. although now i think of it i don’t loathe it as strongly as i used to. but, yeah, not a fan.

Bertie Botts scare me.

By: Harumph

Harumph — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:39:56 +0000

I think it would be a good idea for all students here to do a tolerance check at their respective schools. I know MassArt has more than two sex/gender options on it’s application, and has transmen and transwomen in it’s student body and faculty and people who don’t tolerate it are seen as jerks in general. S’part of why I’m proud of where I go to school.