How in the world can these folks say that this "WBW" stuff could "promote ... unity and self esteem amongst Lesbian, Gay Bisexual, and Trans-gender persons," when the whole concept of "Womyn Born Womyn" is used to exclude transwomen from Mishfest!! (emphasis mine)
OUT!wear™ is quality custom Pridewear and Accessories "WORN WITH PRIDE" to promote visibility, unity and self esteem amongst Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Trans-gendered persons.To promote a positive image within our community, whether bold or discreet.
And they brag on their site that they are a lifetime PFLAG member.
We are proud to be lifetime members of PFLAG. A portion of the sale of PFLAG merchandise goes to support PFLAG's efforts.
I wonder why PFLAF and GLAAD has to say about all this transphobia. I know I hate it!!
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I know, many in the "mainstream" Gay and lesbian community are NOT our friends. I don't know why they even bother to tack the "T" on there.
Like, the "It's Gets Better" guy (can't think of his name now) ..I've read recently that he's written a few anti-T posts. I guess the it gets better part was only for gays and lesbians; the t's need to just man up ...or something.
Hummm...
Imagine that!
Women who have rejected men having an issue with other than female humans in a female only space
Given that these humans were born other than female,
That they lived their lives as other than female,
Humans who were suckled on Male Privilege Humans who never had menses,
Humans who never knew what it was to have cramped,
Humans who never were fed a constant message of how to be a second class citizen
Humans who were never groomed to take care of the needs of higher class
Humans who still have a penis and who are having issues with the idea of not having a penis.
Humans who think it their right to be anywhere they damn good and well want to be no matter who is there or why.
Humans who don't have the faintest idea of how Male Privilege is woven through their being or how it might be expressed in their demands for admittance to such a space.
Imagine the nerve of those bitches!
Yay Miss Vickie! You've arrived. Just wait till you get a vituperative comment from Rose Verbena, then you'll be in the big time!
As a transwoman, I could not help that I was born into the "male privilege", that was an accident of my birth.
The same is said of someone born into a wealthy family.. It is a situation you cannot control.
We as transpeople do not seek something other than to be accepted as the gender we believe is the correct one, for me this is female.
As a woman, I have to accept that society for the whole views males as dominant and females as submissive.
Was I dominant, sure, nature and nurture allowed me that, and when I felt I had the power to change my life, I did, and you know what... for the better..
Justine
Born into "male privilege"? Try that out some time. Try being a six year old "boy" who the other males around you feel is weak, sensitive and feminine. Try growing up like that, and see if it feels like privilege to you. I have been told by friends who have known me for a long time that there was an "aura" about me that just felt - off... That now that they unbderstand me for the person that I am, they now understand what they were sensing when I was TRYING to be "that guy". :)
If you think being born physically male while being female in every other way is "born into male privilege", you obviously havent the first clue as to what you are trying to discuss. :)
"If you think being born physically male while being female in every other way is "born into male privilege", you obviously havent the first clue as to what you are trying to discuss. :) "
If you were raised as a boy, even an effeminate boy, then I would suggest to you that without careful observation of your own behaviors apart from how "girly" you were you would not even notice how your behavior is flooded with male privilege. Isn't it interesting that MtF transitioners have so much trouble with understanding how their conduct displays that they are not women. It's easy to retort with a quick quib but hard to do the work understanding what it means to be a woman. It's like the "emperors new clothes" revisited.
Sometimes it's might be better to listen and consider. Not everything is an argument.
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