Responce To Questioning Transgender...
http://->-bleeped-<-boi22.wordpress.com/2009/01/15/26/1/16/2009
This is a response to
http://www.lagusta.com/rants/trans2008.html. Obviously by her, and not me. The blue in [] are mine.
Four years later: rethinking "Questioning Transgender Politics" in 2008 In 2004 I wrote an essay called "Questioning Transgender Politics" in which I did just that. I've done a lot of thinking and reading about the trans question since then, and would like to do some self-critiquing of my original essay. As evidenced by the ugly political season we are currently suffering through, one of the huge problems with American society right now is our inability to see any shade of grey or admit that our positions on issues might change over time. In the spirit of doing a tiny bit to change this, instead of editing and rewriting the original essay I am going to add comments about it then repost it, unchanged, below so it will be a record of how my thoughts on the issue have evolved. The primary problem with the essay is that I was treating an entire group of people as a theoretical "postmodern project," which seems pretty cruel. [that's true] Gender dysphoria happens to real people, and even though I addressed this issue a bit in the original essay, I didn't at the time adequately understand the position of privilege I was speaking from as a person who is comfortable in her own skin.
