Don't Call Me Transgender!
Posted on April 2, 2011 by The Transexual Menace
http://www.transexualmenace.org/2011/04/dont-call-me-transgender/ (http://www.transexualmenace.org/2011/04/dont-call-me-transgender/)
It is always hard to fight for transgender rights when some of our so-called partners in the LGBT community disenfranchise and marginalize us, but it even more frustrating to see the rifts within our own community.
The Transexual Menace thinks that separatism, but any name, is ugly and repellent. It embodies a 'me-first and screw the rest' attitude that should have died in the 1980s. It divides people who should be fighting together for equality and inclusion. The lesbian separatism embodied by Janice Raymond in her book The Transsexual Empire denied and disenfranchised the identity of transsexual women by maligning them as a mindless tool of the privileged male society created to corrupt the purity of womyn sisterhood (personally we think she is a bit paranoid from reading the Stepford Wives too many times).
This is the stuff that makes it easy to lose battles for our rights, we have to take time to fight in our own statistical popultaion!!
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