Saturday, 18 October 2008
A Reply to Transphobic Feminism
Zoe Brain
http://aebrain.blogspot.com/2008/10/reply-to-transphobic-feminism.htmlThe original's over at Neurotopia, but I think it's worth repeating, with hyperlinks included.
The original post by notorious transphobic feminist, m Andrea:
Zoe, the intersexed get a free pass in my book, perhaps I should have mentioned that. Transfolk have normal chromsomes, comprise .007% of the population, and literally only a handful of those are intersexed. The intersexed organizations are strongly opposed to body modification surgery.
The idea that hard science should exclude everything but numbers is a patriarchal concept.
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It has nothing to do with medicine, but the sign of true intelligence is the ability to apply the lessons learned from one field to another, and I'm sure the scientisty folks can manage. To say that medical science should ignore the cost paid by half of humanity for the benefit of .007% is insane and cruel and proves my point that males are incapable of non-sexist behavior....
I'll let that last sentence pass though to the keeper. In my view, no human being is congenitally cruel, evil, or sexist, incapable of humane behaviour and sub-human by virtue of their birth. Not because of race, and not because of sex either.
