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No Less Transgendered

Started by Allamakee, August 26, 2010, 01:42:54 AM

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August 26, 2010, 01:42:54 AM
No Less Transgendered
by Ivan E Coyote
Xtra! (LGBT weekly, Canada)
August 26, 2010
http://www.xtra.ca/public/Vancouver/Shemanifesto-9087.aspx

QuoteThe fact that I have chosen to use the pronoun she does not mean I am always comfortable with the word, or that it has ceased to chafe me in certain places. I make this choice for more practical reasons. She fits better than he does, and I am interested in stretching and expanding what the word she can encompass.
QuoteThe fact that I have chosen to use the pronoun she does not change my politics, my perversions, my preferences or my mind about anything. I am no less transgendered than I was. I am no less of an ally to my transsexual brothers and sisters. I will continue to fight for their right to define and own and control their identities and their bodies, just as I always have. I have always believed that a trans person's right to self-determination and access to medical treatment is a feminist issue, as much as a woman's right to safe and legal abortion and birth control is a feminist issue.

(NB:  Good Audre Lorde quote in article)
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