Comments on: An Open Letter

By: Raddyke

Raddyke — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:56:21 +0000

Very well articulated. I want to print this out and hang it as a manifesto in any class I’ve ever been in about gender.

By: Flavia

Flavia — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:55:18 +0000

Thank you. So much. I’ve been reading a lot about trans identities in these past 2 months. Didn’t even realise how prejudicial I was. This was a slap in the face, a good one. :)

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The Thang Blog » More random links — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 05:56:07 +0000

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By: julian

julian — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:07:47 +0000

Hell yes. Hell fucking yes. Thank you for saying this.

By: Some Thoughts On Alliances, Identity, And “Transmasculinity” « Dear Diaspora

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:56:31 +0000

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By: DJ

DJ — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:40:42 +0000

moviepimpdj from lj here.

this is an awesome post. thank you.

i don’t identify as feminine but i don’t consider myself masculine either. more androgynous than anything else, i suppose.

so, thanks a lot. :)

By: gudbuytjane

gudbuytjane — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:30:12 +0000

I left a comment at the repost on QT, but I wanted to reiterate how awesome this post is. As a trans woman whose identity rejects compulsory femininity I often feel invisible, and when I see those “But I don’t know any!” comments by people with things like the Top Hot Butches list I just want to scream.

By: links for 2009-07-01 « Embololalia

links for 2009-07-01 « Embololalia — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:06:31 +0000

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By: ephraim

ephraim — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:38:30 +0000

well said. thank you. i truly hope some of the defenders of that list (chromosome fetishists, as someone else called them) read this piece and consider it.

By: Samia

Samia — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:14:31 +0000

Okay, it’s me again. I saw this post at Huck’s originally. It confused me because I’m really not up to speed on a lot of things (as I amply demonstrated recently). But I’ve been reading some of those links and WOW. I stopped reading BitchPhD a while back because she got a little privilege-y for me, and now…dang. Whoo. The depths to which cis female feminists sink. :/ Feministing just bugs me. I don’t know, I find it hard to get into a lot of those sites– sometimes I feel like people use a lot of words without actually saying anything. They try to sound inclusive but end up forgetting huge chunks of important shit, and I just feel let down.

I’m really afraid to know what Margaret Cho said, but I will probably look it up tonight and be sad about it.

The whole idea of a Top Hot Butches list irked me a little, I will admit. I’m not surprised the organizer went about it completely wrong because projects like that tend to be doomed from the start.

I’m curious about what transmasculine means?

I’m guessing you’ve been shut down a couple of times at some of these places you linked to…I wonder if you could guest post somewhere more friendly? I doubt you’re the only person who feels the way you do.