Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Getting something off my chest
Posted by Matt Kailey at 6:21 AM
http://www.tranifesto.com/2009/09/getting-something-off-my-chest.htmlNo, this isn't a top-surgery post. It's another language post, but it was inspired by a post at TransCanada called "Done with Transgender." A friend sent me this during a rather long discussion we've been having about the meaning of various words in the "trans dictionary."
I encourage you to read the whole post, but one thing the author says is, "So I'm no longer using the term transgender about myself. I'm not sure how useful it is for anyone. It's been kicked around so much and used so facilely that it's becoming a word we accept without asking ourselves what it really means."
I agree with her in many ways, because I have the same confusion myself. And, of course, I'm going to go into detail. Did you expect otherwise?
