Random irritated reminder: Kate Bornstein agrees with TERFs that I shouldnt be allowed to call myself a woman: Years earlier, when I went through my gender change from male to female, I glided through life under the commonly accepted assumption: I was finally a real woman! That worked for me until I ran into a group of politically smart lesbians who told me that I wasnt allowed to co-opt the word woman. Woman was not a family word that included me. My answer to this exclusion was to call myself a gender outlaw: I wasnt a man, I wasnt a woman. Kate, I was a woman before I transitioned, and I was a woman before I even knew I needed to transition. Those politically smart lesbians were transmisogynist bigots, and Im sorry that you bowed to their abuse, but you have no right to cosign it for the rest of us.
Posted on: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 21:17:38 +0000