Trans* theory (at least as described many places) is built on the idea that somehow a trans* person is born “in the wrong body.” At some point, a person born with a perfectly normal penis and XY chromosomes decides that hey, he has a “female brain” inside. Because hormones are a physical thing, trans theory decides that will provide a plausible “physical and scientific” explanation for how that might happen (because we all know that “born in the wrong race body” would be nonsense, right? But sex, well, maybe it can happen! Because hormones!)
The $64,000 question is of course, if you weren’t born with biologically female genitalia, and weren’t raised by others assuming that you possess biologically female genitalia, then you have objectively NO EXPERIENCE as to what it might feel like to have those genitalia, or how a brain attached to such a person “should be.” Meaning, how in the hell would you KNOW what it “feels like” to be someone born with female genitalia, enough to say that you identify that feeling in yourself and therefore your own perfectly functional body is somehow “wrong?” You might as well say you “feel like a Black person, inside.” It’s the same level of “how on earth would you even know?”
But in order to claim you know, you must have some IDEA, some stereotype, of what that feeling is, how a “female brain” should be.
And the moment you go there, you’re telling ME a REAL WOMAN, someone who WAS in fact born with biologically female genitalia, how I MUST surely think, how my brain is, how I should feel (and if I don’t feel that way, if I think the stereotypes given are all a bunch of bullshit, well, then I have to be trans*). You’re putting ME in a stereotyped box, and appropriating my experience.
That’s offensive.
If you read any of the “born in the wrong body” accounts, or worse yet accounts by parents diagnosing their kids as trans*, it’s all a bunch of stereotypes all lined up. Oh, their kid didn’t like sports, he wanted to wear dresses all the time, didn’t like math, liked to talk forever, liked princess stuff, preferred to play with girls, asked mom when God would take away his penis.
Well, newsflash, plenty of born girls don’t like pink, don’t like princess, prefer "BOY" subjects, wouldn’t be caught dead in a dress, like sports, and prefer to play with boys. And they’re NOT TRANS*. Meanwhile you can be a boy and wear a dress, if you want – well, it would be easier if SOCIETY wasn’t so effed.
Its better to smash gender entirely. Why should there be any requirement at all for your “brain” to “match” your genitalia? Any type of brain, any type of genitalia, it’s a legitimate pairing and valid. However you think, can go on the “this is how people born with penises think” side of the ledger, until people see just how fluid it all is.
I get that society is rigid in some ways and that for many people, their lives are easier if they “transition” and manage to pass well enough on the street so that people treat them as if they are “the other side.” I get that there’s dysphoria.
But when it turns into “I’m really a woman inside” – that’s a line crossed.
As a real woman, I never wake up “feeling like a woman” or “having an innate sense of womanhood” or any of that stuff. People TOLD me I’m a woman (because of obvious biological reality) and oppress me for it.
I’m a “person” born in a woman’s body, I guess.
Read through transgender tropes #1 - 10 to learn how transsexualism reinforces sexist patriarchal gender stereotypes.
http://transgendertropes.wordpress.com/2...e-subject/
For further reading here is some articles on detransitioning and those who regret their sex changes
http://gendertrender.wordpress.com/2012/...s-a-woman/
http://gendertrender.wordpress.com/2012/...ex-change/
Someone not willing to believe cutting off your penis or growing "boobs" is what makes you a woman, is not transphobic. Its easy to hide being that excuse, but I suggest you take the time to read the opposing view and educate yourselves on how transgenderism is not only sexist but homophobic. Not to mention damaging to yourselves, to our children and to society.
The $64,000 question is of course, if you weren’t born with biologically female genitalia, and weren’t raised by others assuming that you possess biologically female genitalia, then you have objectively NO EXPERIENCE as to what it might feel like to have those genitalia, or how a brain attached to such a person “should be.” Meaning, how in the hell would you KNOW what it “feels like” to be someone born with female genitalia, enough to say that you identify that feeling in yourself and therefore your own perfectly functional body is somehow “wrong?” You might as well say you “feel like a Black person, inside.” It’s the same level of “how on earth would you even know?”
But in order to claim you know, you must have some IDEA, some stereotype, of what that feeling is, how a “female brain” should be.
And the moment you go there, you’re telling ME a REAL WOMAN, someone who WAS in fact born with biologically female genitalia, how I MUST surely think, how my brain is, how I should feel (and if I don’t feel that way, if I think the stereotypes given are all a bunch of bullshit, well, then I have to be trans*). You’re putting ME in a stereotyped box, and appropriating my experience.
That’s offensive.
If you read any of the “born in the wrong body” accounts, or worse yet accounts by parents diagnosing their kids as trans*, it’s all a bunch of stereotypes all lined up. Oh, their kid didn’t like sports, he wanted to wear dresses all the time, didn’t like math, liked to talk forever, liked princess stuff, preferred to play with girls, asked mom when God would take away his penis.
Well, newsflash, plenty of born girls don’t like pink, don’t like princess, prefer "BOY" subjects, wouldn’t be caught dead in a dress, like sports, and prefer to play with boys. And they’re NOT TRANS*. Meanwhile you can be a boy and wear a dress, if you want – well, it would be easier if SOCIETY wasn’t so effed.
Its better to smash gender entirely. Why should there be any requirement at all for your “brain” to “match” your genitalia? Any type of brain, any type of genitalia, it’s a legitimate pairing and valid. However you think, can go on the “this is how people born with penises think” side of the ledger, until people see just how fluid it all is.
I get that society is rigid in some ways and that for many people, their lives are easier if they “transition” and manage to pass well enough on the street so that people treat them as if they are “the other side.” I get that there’s dysphoria.
But when it turns into “I’m really a woman inside” – that’s a line crossed.
As a real woman, I never wake up “feeling like a woman” or “having an innate sense of womanhood” or any of that stuff. People TOLD me I’m a woman (because of obvious biological reality) and oppress me for it.
I’m a “person” born in a woman’s body, I guess.
Read through transgender tropes #1 - 10 to learn how transsexualism reinforces sexist patriarchal gender stereotypes.
http://transgendertropes.wordpress.com/2...e-subject/
For further reading here is some articles on detransitioning and those who regret their sex changes
http://gendertrender.wordpress.com/2012/...s-a-woman/
http://gendertrender.wordpress.com/2012/...ex-change/
Someone not willing to believe cutting off your penis or growing "boobs" is what makes you a woman, is not transphobic. Its easy to hide being that excuse, but I suggest you take the time to read the opposing view and educate yourselves on how transgenderism is not only sexist but homophobic. Not to mention damaging to yourselves, to our children and to society.