Meet the New Gender Police – Same as the Old Gender Police
August 11, 2011 by Matt Kailey
http://tranifesto.com/2011/08/11/meet-the-new-gender-police-%E2%80%93-same-as-the-old-gender-police/Two situations have recently come to my attention. At first glance, they appear to be completely different scenarios – opposites, in fact. But upon closer inspection, we can see that they are almost identical.
Scenario 1: Several straight, traditionally masculine trans men gang up on some non-traditional gay and queer trans guys, telling them that they are not "legitimate" trans men, that they are not correctly expressing their gender, that their sexual orientation is wrong, and that they would look and act a certain way if they were "real" men. Meet the old gender police.
Scenario 2: Several non-traditional gay and queer trans guys, along with some genderqueer people, gang up on some straight, traditionally masculine trans men, telling them that they are wrong to identify as men, that they are wrong to use male pronouns, that they are not radical or queer enough, and that they are reinforcing the patriarchal binary gender system.
