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ENDA da wurld? [blog]

Started by Shana A, February 25, 2008, 07:24:04 AM

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Shana A

February 25, 2008, 07:24:04 AM
ENDA da wurld?

http://community.livejournal.com/transgender/1561637.html

Pandora (gentle_gamer) wrote in transgender,
I wrote an essay on a disturbing trend I've been seeing online lately. What do you folks think?

Ever since the whole ENDA fiasco where big name GL(b) organizations turned their backs on trans folk, I've been seeing an increase in what I might call "Trans-fundamentalism" throughout the net. There doesn't seem to be any one group or belief system emerging quite yet, but there are several trends I've noticed:

- The "trans-fundamentalists" are often extremely sexist/misogynistic in their language, seemingly believing that stereotypes of men and women are actually facts handed down from on high. Men walk like *this.* Women talk like *that.* Men hold their heads *this way* Women like *these things* etc. To me, it's all the same bull->-bleeped-<- that's been used against trans and otherwise queer people throughout their early lives to require us to fit society's expectations of how girls and boys *should* act.
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