Being Transgender is Dishonest

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Being Transgender is Dishonest
Feministing
05 November 2009


http://community.feministing.com/2009/11/being-transgender-is-dishonest.html


A recent Feministing post on transgender people having sex with cisgender people attracted many negative comments focusing on the "dishonesty" of transgender people.

First of I'd like to say that I completely agree that it is dishonest for a transgender person and a cisgender person to have sex, full-stop.  We live in a world where notions of sexual orientation and gender are defined from a cisgender persective.  Since transgender people don't fit neatly into these cisgender definitions, we are always going to be viewed as dishonest from a cis-only perspective.