Leaving Exile: Giving Another Her Recognition
Posted October 30, 2008
http://radnichole.wordpress.com/2008/10/30/leaving-exile-giving-another-her-recognition/I just did a thing I was formerly moved not to do. Simply because it only seems right.
I made a Blogroll link at this blog for the blog of Catkisser, Cathryn Platine, who demands on a regular basis the exile of what she refers to as the "Transgenders" from inclusion in a valid human community.
In my estimation she does so in a mean-spirited and rather dismissive way. Although some of my readers might disagree.
Cathryn is one of those people, a "leader," in the effort to deny the ability to bond of those who claim no place among Transsexuals, but, instead, demand and hope for a recognition of gender-bending, androgyny and cross-dressing as perfectly legitimate forms of their expressions for themselves.
I will also admit that there was a time in my life that I would have counted myself a supporter of the movement that Cathryn, Leigh Smith, Susan Taylor and others rally to. I also thought there were huge differences between cross-dressers, drag-queens, gender-queers and androgynes, for instance, and transsexuals. A desire or obsession to dress as the sex we commonly refer to as "the opposite sex" seemed a far cry from what I have known within myself since I was 3 or 4: a deep knowledge that "what you say to me I am is not what I feel within myself I am."
