Male privilege & female oppression, I know both
The Rainbow Times (LGBT, Massachusetts/Connecticut/New Hampshire)
by Lorelei Erisis
http://www.nighttimez.com/trt_feb2010.pdf (page 6)
Dear Lorelei,
I have an attitude - for lack of a better term - about "transgenderism" in general but particularly with me. I feel bewildered by the fact that a man thinks that simply by taking female hormones and having surgery, he can turn himself into a woman - it feels like the way men project that they know about what women's experiences are or what it "means" to be a woman in society, when they have never experienced that particular painful gender oppression, from birth, that totally contorts us. The most misunderstood I have ever felt has been by gay men and transsexuals...
