Oh, I'm sure a big part of it is genetic. My mom has the same nails. My dad's are beautiful, and strong and smooth. My brother has my dad's nails. There are some other things about my family that are like that, too. Like, I've got my dad's eye color, eye shape, and eyebrows, but my mom's nearsightedness. It's kinda…
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I know that the question was directed at Kat, but that's one that might vary with each individual.
With regard to language...as a white, cisgendered straight woman, I have accepted that there are going to be debates over usage that I am not part of, because I have neither an academic nor a personal involvement. I'm a bystander.
This is what I mean about you not getting it. Being trans isn't all about whether you've had your breasts of cock cut off. In fact very little is about that. If you think being trans is about that then you need to get out more.
"Trans, by definition, is about genitals – not entirely, but largely and significantly.”
It sure as shit is when it can make a person uncomfortable or feel lesser than. If you wouldn't ask a cis person about their penis/vagina in everyday conversation, don't do it to trans people. Katie doesn't invite cis people like Jennifer Lawrence or Miley Cyrus on her show to talk about their vaginas, so why do it to…
I love how after all that Ms. Cox explained, Katie's response was "wow, you're so well spoken about it." I would like to comment on the irritation I have, as a black woman, with people constantly telling me how "well spoken" I am. As if it's supposed to be a compliment. Is there some reason why I shouldn't be well…
that has to do very specifically with your genitals
Explain where either of these women is cultivating a public persona based on their genitalia, though. Trans does not equal genitals. That's the point. They're answering questions on their gender identity - i.e. what's going on in their brain chemistry, not what's going on in their pants. As a trans person, if you…
Don't think of them as people who traded Trans* to be famous, think of them as people who are famous and HAPPEN to be Trans*. They way you describe it is like, they rode the Tranny train to fame and moneytown, like it's some prevalent scheme. It's not, they're a misunderstood minority who came up against the odds.…
Except that is has to do with so much more than genitals. Honestly, very very little changes in your day to day life after surgery. It's very important on a personal level, but people you interact with on a daily basis can't tell if you've had surgery or not. These women aren't putting themselves out there to talk…
This is it exactly. It would be like if no one ever asked a new mother how she was making the adjustment to motherhood or how the baby was getting along, they just wanted to know about stretched labia and scars. Sure, stretched labia and surgical scars are part of childbirth, but not the only—or even the most…
Totally. People have babies all the GD time and people don't go up to every mom and ask "so did you do vaginal or c section? How long did you bleed after and how damaged does your vagina look now? How many stitches on your perineum? What does that feel like?" No they talk about the fracking kid cuz the outcome is the…
Here is my experience with this:
:D I love having conversations like these, they really make it all worthwhile. I'm, regarding trans feminist literature, I haven't done a huge amount of reading myself, but I know that Sandy Stone, Sylvia Rivera, and Julia Serano (who wrote Whipping Girl) are all held in high regard. Actually, I know I should probably…
thanks for the encouragement—there's hope! wow,that's a lot to think about which i will do. you dropped some serious knowledge. god,i wish that i had read some trans feminists works as a teen. do you have any suggestions?
Heh, well, I feel like you're trying, and so any effort I put into it is worthwhile. I think the thing to keep in mind is that trans women weren't socialized as cis men, either. Growing up, society sends a lot of messages to "men" and to "women", and if someone views themselves as both or neither or more of one than…
I think it helps to think of trans folks as being the "correct gender" on the inside, and the surgery/hormones helps the outside to catch up with that internal reality. Given that reparative therapies don't work any better for trans folks than they do for gay folks, the psychiatric consensus is that gender identity is…
Some of us feel as if we have always had the gender we have now, especially those of us who believe gender is a social construct and are strictly binary. I was a trans girl at five years old, ten years old, and 15 years old. I am a trans woman now. I never had any other gender than the one I have now. It has nothing…