Full Spectrum: TDOR

[NicholeW.]

20 November 2008, piny, Feministehttp://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2008/11/20/full-spectrum/
No, you cannot narrow visibility to a leading wedge of the best and blandest and hope that everyone else will be able to follow.
Trans status rendered you unpalatable all by itself. Trans goals were by definition unrealistic goals. Your vulnerability, your needs, the circumstances of your life: all off the table. Now things are theoretically better, but ask yourself how quickly a hard case breaks down. Ask one of the good gays here in California.
This idea that a movement should–or can–start by fronting a few more normative types and hopefully eventually bring some of the others up with them? It's killed plenty of people already. The Trans Day of Remembrance is about protecting the dead from oblivion, true, but their memory has another hold on the living. They remind us that we can't barter away their lives.