Define/perpetuate
Posted by: piny
http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2008/03/21/defineperpetuate/ (http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2008/03/21/defineperpetuate/)
Lisa–as usual–has already devoted many paragraphs to responding to this post, but I'm adding my contribution here, because I read this comment and sorta went, "Hm."
Here is my position in a nutshell:
1. Transwomen are people (yep! "people") that have made some sort of *change* to be considered (trans) "women"
2. To have transitioned is to have supported the message that links what our bodies are to how we express them. That, to me, is gender. (That those expressions, however, oftentimes have binary influence-influence not carbon copy- is no accident.)