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Title: Awesome Cissexual Columnists: Joseph Ho
Post by: Shana A on April 14, 2008, 07:49:04 AM
Post by: Shana A on April 14, 2008, 07:49:04 AM
Awesome Cissexual Columnists: Joseph Ho
Tina Russell @ 8:13 pm
http://tinarussell.wordpress.com/2008/04/13/awesome-cissexual-columnists-joseph-ho/ (http://tinarussell.wordpress.com/2008/04/13/awesome-cissexual-columnists-joseph-ho/)
Taipei Times - archive
I haven't written anything about the big "pregnant transsexual man" story because I have a bit of contempt for the international media with a big song-and-dance about what is an immensely personal decision. Why should a man feel somehow obligated, as some people seem to expect him to, to forsake the biological functions given to him at birth while affirming who he is through transition? A transsexual man, tragically, still cannot inseminate a woman, so the smug, lingering idea that somehow a transsexual man should be allowed neither the ability to give birth nor the ability to inseminate is insensitive and bigoted.
Tina Russell @ 8:13 pm
http://tinarussell.wordpress.com/2008/04/13/awesome-cissexual-columnists-joseph-ho/ (http://tinarussell.wordpress.com/2008/04/13/awesome-cissexual-columnists-joseph-ho/)
Taipei Times - archive
I haven't written anything about the big "pregnant transsexual man" story because I have a bit of contempt for the international media with a big song-and-dance about what is an immensely personal decision. Why should a man feel somehow obligated, as some people seem to expect him to, to forsake the biological functions given to him at birth while affirming who he is through transition? A transsexual man, tragically, still cannot inseminate a woman, so the smug, lingering idea that somehow a transsexual man should be allowed neither the ability to give birth nor the ability to inseminate is insensitive and bigoted.