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Title: Transgender Issues: Are You “A Queer Person”?
Post by: Shana A on January 25, 2012, 10:04:43 AM
Post by: Shana A on January 25, 2012, 10:04:43 AM
Transgender Issues: Are You "A Queer Person"?
January 24, 2012. 11:36 pm • Section: Trans Talk
Posted by: Jillian Page
http://blogs.montrealgazette.com/2012/01/24/transgender-issues-are-you-a-queer-person/ (http://blogs.montrealgazette.com/2012/01/24/transgender-issues-are-you-a-queer-person/)
So how do you feel about being called "a queer person"?
It's happening more and more: some gay people are "reclaiming" the word and applying it to all LGBT people.
[...]
Personally, I don't mind if someone wants to reclaim the word "queer," but I don't like the idea of using it to refer to people who might be uncomfortable with it. I don't think anybody has the right to take such liberties . . . but it is happening, whether trans people (or LGB people) like it or not.
January 24, 2012. 11:36 pm • Section: Trans Talk
Posted by: Jillian Page
http://blogs.montrealgazette.com/2012/01/24/transgender-issues-are-you-a-queer-person/ (http://blogs.montrealgazette.com/2012/01/24/transgender-issues-are-you-a-queer-person/)
So how do you feel about being called "a queer person"?
It's happening more and more: some gay people are "reclaiming" the word and applying it to all LGBT people.
[...]
Personally, I don't mind if someone wants to reclaim the word "queer," but I don't like the idea of using it to refer to people who might be uncomfortable with it. I don't think anybody has the right to take such liberties . . . but it is happening, whether trans people (or LGB people) like it or not.
Title: Re: Transgender Issues: Are You “A Queer Person”?
Post by: J R D on January 25, 2012, 10:08:46 AM
Post by: J R D on January 25, 2012, 10:08:46 AM
I'm a tad eccentric maybe, but definitely not queer.