Eating Bitter: Anti-Transsexual/Transgender Misogyny Within the Feminist and Lesbian Movements
Women born transsexual
By Suzan
08 March, 2011
http://womenborntranssexual.com/2011/03/08/eating-bitter-anti-transsexualtransgender-misogyny-within-the-feminist-and-lesbian-movements/ (http://womenborntranssexual.com/2011/03/08/eating-bitter-anti-transsexualtransgender-misogyny-within-the-feminist-and-lesbian-movements/)
I've become an old woman. I am saddened to see the same battles being fought within the lesbian and feminist communities. They seem like such a waste of time and energy, a sort of cannibalism that prevents the movement from actually confronting oppression in much the same way the wars between transsexual and transgender people prevent our improving the lot of either.
In the mean time many of the women doing the trashing seem to have both class privilege and white skin privilege and often times women with transsexual histories or transgender women are just another minority to be ignored or used as a scapegoat.
In the mean time the general Left seems to often be a more welcoming place for a wider range of people than do the various identity politics forms of feminism or lesbian feminism.