Being Transgender is Dishonest
Feministing
05 November 2009
http://community.feministing.com/2009/11/being-transgender-is-dishonest.html (http://community.feministing.com/2009/11/being-transgender-is-dishonest.html)
A recent Feministing post on transgender people having sex with cisgender people attracted many negative comments focusing on the "dishonesty" of transgender people.
First of I'd like to say that I completely agree that it is dishonest for a transgender person and a cisgender person to have sex, full-stop. We live in a world where notions of sexual orientation and gender are defined from a cisgender persective. Since transgender people don't fit neatly into these cisgender definitions, we are always going to be viewed as dishonest from a cis-only perspective.