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Title: Transitioning into inclusion at Michigan (opinion)
Post by: Natasha on April 10, 2008, 05:40:37 PM
Post by: Natasha on April 10, 2008, 05:40:37 PM
Transitioning into inclusion at Michigan
http://chicagofreepress.com/node/1602
4/9/2008
"Seventeen years after Nancy Burkholder was ejected from the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival because she was outed as a transwoman, people on the Michigan Internet forums are still talking about transgender inclusion in the lesbian community"
http://chicagofreepress.com/node/1602
4/9/2008
"Seventeen years after Nancy Burkholder was ejected from the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival because she was outed as a transwoman, people on the Michigan Internet forums are still talking about transgender inclusion in the lesbian community"
Title: Re: Transitioning into inclusion at Michigan (opinion)
Post by: Sandy on April 10, 2008, 08:31:15 PM
Post by: Sandy on April 10, 2008, 08:31:15 PM
I have never held with the WBW philosophy of the fest.
Am I less of a woman because of a birth defect? I was still born womyn.
What about women who are born with diabetes? Does that make them less female?
Can they answer what is female? What is a womyn?
I know many lesbians are particularly angry about MTF transsexuals because they feel that they are an abomination and are trying to steal some secret feminine power.
This bigoted attitude is so reminiscent of the fundie church people that it would be funny if it wasn't so pathetic. What it shows is that when an attitude is sufficiently extreme, it is nearly indistinguishable from an attitude at the exact opposite end of the spectrum.
I am sorry that some of my sisters do not think me womyn enough for them because I never bore children, menstruated, heard my biological clock tick, or agonized through puberty.
Instead I was taunted, beaten up, called queer and ->-bleeped-<-got by both boys and girls and spent most of my puberty alone in silent torture.
Yeah, I guess I'm not a womyn...
-Sandy
Am I less of a woman because of a birth defect? I was still born womyn.
What about women who are born with diabetes? Does that make them less female?
Can they answer what is female? What is a womyn?
I know many lesbians are particularly angry about MTF transsexuals because they feel that they are an abomination and are trying to steal some secret feminine power.
This bigoted attitude is so reminiscent of the fundie church people that it would be funny if it wasn't so pathetic. What it shows is that when an attitude is sufficiently extreme, it is nearly indistinguishable from an attitude at the exact opposite end of the spectrum.
I am sorry that some of my sisters do not think me womyn enough for them because I never bore children, menstruated, heard my biological clock tick, or agonized through puberty.
Instead I was taunted, beaten up, called queer and ->-bleeped-<-got by both boys and girls and spent most of my puberty alone in silent torture.
Yeah, I guess I'm not a womyn...
-Sandy