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Title: Getting Real: Being Trans vs Having Trans Experiences
Post by: Shana A on May 02, 2011, 08:05:13 AM
Post by: Shana A on May 02, 2011, 08:05:13 AM
Getting Real: Being Trans vs Having Trans Experiences
Written by Jane Laplain
http://www.questioningtransphobia.com/?p=3736 (http://www.questioningtransphobia.com/?p=3736)
Lately I've been re-evaluating my concepts of "trans identity."
I just read a post on the excellent blog Critique Of Popular Reason, about the use of trans and cis as adjectives rather than prefixes, which has sort of guilted me into cleaning up my use of the terms and being more meaningful in what I intend to convey when I use them.
I admit I've been haphazard in writing trans woman, transwoman, cis man, cis-man and so on. I've always realized in the back of my mind that each way of writing trans or cis represents a slightly different understanding of the terms, but I didn't think it a big deal. Well, I do now, so the inconsistency stops today.
Written by Jane Laplain
http://www.questioningtransphobia.com/?p=3736 (http://www.questioningtransphobia.com/?p=3736)
Lately I've been re-evaluating my concepts of "trans identity."
I just read a post on the excellent blog Critique Of Popular Reason, about the use of trans and cis as adjectives rather than prefixes, which has sort of guilted me into cleaning up my use of the terms and being more meaningful in what I intend to convey when I use them.
I admit I've been haphazard in writing trans woman, transwoman, cis man, cis-man and so on. I've always realized in the back of my mind that each way of writing trans or cis represents a slightly different understanding of the terms, but I didn't think it a big deal. Well, I do now, so the inconsistency stops today.