Responding To: Is It Wrong to Perform at Michfest?
http://www.transadvocate.com/9548.htm6/3/13
By Cristan
"At its core, Thompson's argument — and Vogel's — is essentially based on gender identity and socialization. It contends that being assigned female at birth is a life experience that differs from that of being assigned male. "The internal struggles and social pressures are different," says Thompson. "We live in a patriarchy. That is still true. And that has real, cultural effects."
Syd Mutcher, another Michfest participant, agrees, saying that trans women are informed by their boyhoods and by male privilege, as well as by womanhood as they transition. "That is why I support the inclusion of trans women in most spaces but also hold a space that is based on the lived experience of being female since the day we were born," Mutcher says.
- The Advocate, Is It Wrong to Perform at Michfest?
That's a fallacy. The truth is that the acculturation experience of being trans differs from the experience of being a cis male who is MAAB. I've no idea what it's like to be a cismale. I know what it's like to be a trans kid – afraid, ashamed and gender dysphoric all the time. Is being in the closet about one's gender orientation the cismale experience? Is praying to not wake up in the morning if god wouldn't fix my body at just 5 years old the cismale experience? Is being part of a population in which 1 out of 2 are raped the cismale experience? The FAAB/MAAB narrative willfully obtuse and cruel.
