On modification

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On modification
Questioning Transphobia
Written by Queen Emily
October 13th, 2010 at 1:32 pm


http://www.questioningtransphobia.com/?p=3256


I want to talk about modification – how some treatments women use are considered to be real and others fake, and why.
What I mean is, cis women take hormones and have surgeries that are considered to not negate their sense of womanhood, but trans women's are always signaled back to some mythical "origin" of a Platonic ideal of cis maleness.  I have even seen people argue with a straight face that intersexed women's vaginaplasties are real (because they are correction), but trans women's are fake (because they are creation).

But matter doesn't care if you took the pill or estradiol, a body with a certain estrogen level is a body with a certain estrogen level.  You don't get a free pass from blood clots, migraines and breast cancer to name just a few because you are supposedly "not a real woman."