April 2013
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The Double Standard of Slut-Shaming, my story.
I remember in my high-school health class 10 years ago being told only about how abstinence was the only form of sex-ed and that condoms didn’t work because HIV and other viruses could pass right through them. I still remember the slut-shaming “thought exercise” where they had a guy and girl stand up and talk about how when you sleep with somebody you sleep with everybody...
February 2013
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The fight for bodily autonomy is on multiple...
“You should have consulted with us.” It’s a sentence that no one wants to hear when they makes their own medical decisions. As a trans woman, I deal with people scrutinizing my personal history with a fine-toothed comb looking for reasons to keep me from making my own medical decisions. It can seem like the slightest imperfection, the smallest mistake in choosing a...
November 2012
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killinnocentsandwiches asked: Excellent post regarding that whole "transtrenders" nonsense.
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“Trans-trenders” Misogyny and Victim Blaming
In the past few months there have been shortages of both testosterone and estradiol, the most common products used in hormone replacement therapy. And yet in the rush to assign blame for these on people who had really nothing to do with the problems. Only one group of people took the brunt of the blame, and surprisingly enough, it wasn’t use trans women, but trans men.
(As an aside, both...
September 2012
1 post
The Problem of Socialization
As a trans woman, one of the most common excuses I hear for the exclusion of trans women from feminist spaces is that we somehow retain our “male privilege” or that we were “socialized” as boys, and thus have no place in feminism because we didn’t have the right childhood experience to be allowed to contribute to feminist discussions.
The number one problem with...
June 2012
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The Femininity Trap.
What does it mean to be female? To be femme? Feminine? A girl, a woman, a mother. Women are straddled with social expectations and social roles about what it means to be a proper woman. Often these messages are contradictory if not downright harmful.
As trans women we are often expected to be paragons of femininity and define ourselves according to these dangerous and harmful messages. If we...
May 2012
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Growing up Evangelical.
This is a bit more of a personal post for me. I thought I’d share a bit f my personal history of growing up in the Evangelical Baptist culture.
Looking back, the number one thing I noticed about that culture is the sheer pervasiveness of it. It is not simply enough to attend church on Sunday morning. It expands outward from there, from AWANA on Sunday nights, to youth group meetings on...
April 2012
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xxx-swagonite420-xxx-deactivate asked: every time i see a post of yours on my dash it makes me think of the time i saw someone using "transgender" as a verb
A Reluctant Ambassador: Being The Only Trans...
One of the hardest parts on being the only trans woman in a non-trans space, such as feminist discussions is that I am forced to act as a transgender ambassador. My opinions are not seen as just my own, but as representative of the entire trans community.
Well what’s wrong with that? It places an undue burden on a trans person to be a representative for the entire community when they don’t...
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TNG's "The Measure of a Man" as a Transgender...
Star Trek: The Next Generation’s “The Measure of a Man” is considered one of the series best episodes, and for good reason, it’s a powerful and emotional episode that explores the character of Commander Data.
The plot of the episode is that Commander Data is transferred away from the Enterprise by a Commander Maddox, for the purpose of disassembling him and experimenting...
“The Overly Feminine Trans Woman,” Stereotypes,...
One of the most common stereotypes regarding transgender women is that they act “overly feminine” and that our gender presentation is considered to be a ‘parody’ of femininity.
Sadly, it is a very pervasive stereotype that persists to this day, and one that nobody ever thinks to dig into why it exists or how it originated. This harmful stereotyping is placed on us from all directions, from...
Jenna Talacknova, Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival,...
There has been a fair amount of discussion being brought up about the exclusion of a transgender woman, Jenna Talacknova, from the Miss Universe Canada pageant. Miss Talacknova was excluded from the contest, for no other reason than the fact that she was transgendered.
It has become predictably routine for trans women to be denied and excluded from women’s spaces, be it from domestic violence...
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"March Madness," Homestuck and the fetishization...
With the month of April gone, and March behind me, I can breathe a little easier. I like Homestuck, and that’s no real secret or anything.
However, the Homestuck fans make me fairly uncomfortable during the month of March.
The story goes, that the art team that produced different art assets for various flash animations in the comic decided to sell a calender featuring various pictures by...
Why a ferengi avatar?
The Ferengi avatar is just a bit of fun. It’s from the 4th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation called “The Last Outpost.” It was the episode that introduced us to the Ferengi.
So why make it my avatar?
Because the Ferengi were portrayed as brutally misogynistic in the episode, going as far as to say “Your females wear clothing?”
In fact the Ferengi...
Why I call this blog "Transgendered is not a...
Why call this blog “Transgendered is not a noun?”
It’s simple really, I made this blog to talk about issues that we as transgender people have to deal with on a daily basis, and to analyze it from both a trans perspective and from a feminist point of view.
The name was my way of venting the most common frustration I have about people’s understanding of transpeople....
