The Importance of Knowing Our History

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The Importance of Knowing Our History
Women Born Transsexual
By Suzan
10 July, 2010


http://womenborntranssexual.com/2010/07/10/the-importance-of-knowing-our-history/


Transgender as an all encompassing umbrella has very little sense of history.

It tends to pick snippets and fragments from the past and then place them in the context of  this recently constructed political identity.

Often time in doing this they anachronistically supply context that was absent when the events occurred.

Much is made of there being "queens" at Stonewall where they are labeled as "Transgender Warriors" even when we used the term "queen" in a rather nebulous and highly inclusive manner in those days.  One element that has been lost is:  Feminine gay called each other "she" and "Mary".  As in, "Get Miss Thing over there, she thinks she is a real man, when we all know she's the last woman between the sheets."