Comment of the Week: Joann Prinzivalli
http://www.bilerico.com/2011/04/comment_of_the_week_joann_prinzivalli.php (http://www.bilerico.com/2011/04/comment_of_the_week_joann_prinzivalli.php)
4/24/11
Dr. Jillian T. Weiss
On Bil's post Transgender Woman Severely Beaten at Baltimore McDonalds While Employees Watch, which garnered over 400 comments, many of which expressed sympathy for the victim and outrage against the assailants (illuminating a high level of racism), but there was also a strong discussion of whether transwomen are, in fact, women, and whether the victim was correctly identified as a woman, or a transgender woman, or a transsexual woman, or none of the above. Some commenters said yes, some said no, some said it depends on one's surgical status and some said you have to ask the person to find out. Some (now deleted) comments said that she is really a man, and so her presence in the women's bathroom was wrong.