Dragon Tears (http://radnichole.wordpress.com/2008/11/21/dragon-tears/)Posted November 21, 2008
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Once or twice I have written essays about how divisive and basically useless and self-defeating it is for women, especially because this is where the problem mainly lies, and men of transsexing histories to strive to completely invalidate the experiences of those we may not always understand, or even feel much comfortable with.
Why self-defeating? Simply because a number of people, mainly women, with transsexed histories wish to limit "who can be transsexual" and attempt to make rigorous distinctions between "those like me" and "those over there." As I've written before it seems to me that the attempt is of the order of one messy child being able to find one unblemished spot on her frock as she attempts to point out to her mother that the other child is much more messy than she because that child has no unblemished spots on her frock at all.