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'Confidence is the key to passing - or at least to silencing the hecklers'

Started by Butterfly, July 28, 2010, 05:15:53 PM

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Butterfly

July 28, 2010, 05:15:53 PM
'Confidence is the key to passing - or at least to silencing the hecklers'
The Guardian UK
By Juliet Jacques
28 July, 2010


http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/jul/28/passing-as-a-woman


Immersed in genderqueer circles before I began the 'real life experience', I contemplated the idea of 'passing' with the utmost suspicion. The books I read  suggested that to pass was to conform to an antiquated binary that suffocated more diverse (and fun) forms of gender expression. Exploring territory between 'male' and 'female' in safe spaces, thinking less about how I'd developed strategies to 'pass' in my assigned gender in everyday life, I was convinced that transsexual women striving to pass were letting down those fighting for greater trans visibility.
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rejennyrated

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July 28, 2010, 05:24:26 PM
Haven't I been saying something rather similar for some time!
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Janet_Girl

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July 28, 2010, 08:11:49 PM
A very good explanation of what I call having and "Attitude".
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