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When Girls Will Be Boys (letters to the editor)

Started by Natasha, March 29, 2008, 01:06:27 PM

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When Girls Will Be Boys (letters to the editor)

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/30/magazine/30letters-t-002.html
03/29/2008

"Alissa Quart (March 16) gets it right! The genderqueer revolution is
not about fitting easy definitions. We're transmen/women as well as
gender nonconformists, who run the gamut from post-op transsexuals to
those who "pass" as the biological sex we were born into. ("Trans"
being the operative word, we transcend gender in a way that the gay
and lesbian community does not transcend sexuality.) That society
reduces us to a group born into the wrong body is offensive, for it
implies that there is a "right" body to be born into."
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