I've been reading a very excellent collection of essays about gender that Jenn purchased recently entitled Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity. In the first essay, Nico Dacumos talks mostly about trans-masculine and butch politics, but he does also touch upon feminine-identified transgenderism and how we are perceived within the wider queer and straight communities a bit and the passages below are spot on, so I thought I'd share:
"Who will acknowledge that transwomen find themselves in some of the most vulnerable positions in this society, oftentimes unable to access even the paltry privileges allowed to nontrans women? It seems to me that the pervading attitude about feminine-identified transgender people casts them as utterly reactionary, at best apolitical, and most likely a detriment to the cause of women's liberation." [p.30]
"misogyny among privileged gay and/or straight male academics actively excludes transgender women; transphobia among feminist academics casts transgender women as wolves in sheep's clothing." [p.31]
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Dana: I check every day to see if you have posted something :) .... keep up the good work ..... you have just the right amount of 'edge'
your fan in the Middle East .... kaye_martin
Thanks Kaye! And keep the comments coming as well - would be great to get some other perspectives on some of this stuff - especially a pespective from outside the U.S.!
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