Is it House-Trained? Does it Bite? Has it had The Surgery?
Posted on 9 February, 2012
http://www.sarahlizzy.com/blog/?p=15Yesterday, my dear friend, Paris Lees of Trans Media Watch appeared on Breakfast TV, prior to Trans Media Watch making a submission to the Leveson Inquiry. Now since Paris runs a WordPress blog, she's able to see what sort of search terms people are using to find her, and yesterday lunchtime she tweeted this:
"paris lees before he was a woman," "is paris lees post op" & "paris lees on the game" – just a few of the Google searches done on me today.
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Anyway, this got me thinking about how many cis people think very differently about etiquette around the subject of trans people, our bodies and our identities, than someone embedded in the trans community tends to. I appreciate that I probably used to before I consciously identified as transgender too, but that was a very long time ago and I can't really remember it very well. As a result, when this difference is thrust visibly into my path, it can cause a moment of cognitive dissonance.
