Bindle and Bailey and Blanchard Oh My!
http://radicalbitch.wordpress.com/2008/10/20/bindle-and-bailey-and-blanchard-oh-my/10/20/2008
First the current situation. It seems that a Julie Bindle, a self proclaimed radical feminist, has been nominated for an award by the British Stonewall group while having made a number of comments about the womanhood of women of transsexual history based on opposition to gender reassignment surgery and a strict deconstructionist viewpoint regarding gender. Her stated position goes something like this, SRS (sexual reassignment surgery) is forced on gender transgressing males who are in open denial of actually being gay men. That if transsexuals want to aid the feminist movement, they should remain physically male and openly screw with gender stereotypes. This is a classic Janice Raymond position. Remember Raymond? She's the boogywoman of all trans people. It also agrees with the basics of Bailey's "all transsexuals are either actually gay men in denial or autogynophiliacs (a weird sort of way of saying a transsexual woman's satisfaction with changes to her body made surgically is a pathology. Bailey came to the attention of the trans world when he was also up for an award for his work by a GLBt literary group.
