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Title: Transgender (Mis)Education
Post by: Felix on February 28, 2012, 09:14:03 PM
Post by: Felix on February 28, 2012, 09:14:03 PM
The Huffington Post
Ira Gray
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ira-gray/transgender-miseducation_b_1307961.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ira-gray/transgender-miseducation_b_1307961.html)
Something didn't feel right for me anymore, and I couldn't put my finger on it. According to every resource I turned to -- whether it be Tyra Banks' interviews with trans* people, or reading resources by and for transgender individuals -- I was not binary enough in my gender to be transgender. I didn't know from the time I was born, never felt trapped in my body, and would never describe my identity as a trans* person as a "birth defect" like Chaz Bono describes his.
Ira Gray
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ira-gray/transgender-miseducation_b_1307961.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ira-gray/transgender-miseducation_b_1307961.html)
Something didn't feel right for me anymore, and I couldn't put my finger on it. According to every resource I turned to -- whether it be Tyra Banks' interviews with trans* people, or reading resources by and for transgender individuals -- I was not binary enough in my gender to be transgender. I didn't know from the time I was born, never felt trapped in my body, and would never describe my identity as a trans* person as a "birth defect" like Chaz Bono describes his.
Title: Re: Transgender (Mis)Education
Post by: lilacwoman on February 29, 2012, 05:14:47 AM
Post by: lilacwoman on February 29, 2012, 05:14:47 AM
Ira Gray is TG not TS.
I'm not convinced that Chaz Bono is TS either.
But in USA a person can be what they want to be.
I'm not convinced that Chaz Bono is TS either.
But in USA a person can be what they want to be.
Title: Re: Transgender (Mis)Education
Post by: Jamie D on February 29, 2012, 11:46:45 AM
Post by: Jamie D on February 29, 2012, 11:46:45 AM
"The land of opportunity."
Title: Re: Transgender (Mis)Education
Post by: tekla on February 29, 2012, 11:59:42 AM
Post by: tekla on February 29, 2012, 11:59:42 AM
What's the point of being here if you're not re-inventing yourself. You can be what and who you want to be. What's the downside?
Title: Re: Transgender (Mis)Education
Post by: Felix on February 29, 2012, 05:22:43 PM
Post by: Felix on February 29, 2012, 05:22:43 PM
Quote from: lilacwoman on February 29, 2012, 05:14:47 AMI would hope that you can be what you want to be anywhere, whether other people recognize it or not.
Ira Gray is TG not TS.
I'm not convinced that Chaz Bono is TS either.
But in USA a person can be what they want to be.