perspectives on stuff from an angry feminist
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 27th, 2008
It’s a bit of a small world.
I came out fairly widely to my friends when I was fifteen, and I lost more than a few at that stage. It’s been seven years, and for the most part, the people who weren’t exactly what one might call supportive then are long forgotten, and most of them […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 17th, 2008
There’s a not-half-bad post up at Reweaving at the moment expressing frustration (from a radical feminist perspective) at the vast amounts of transphobia in the radical feminist community, and specifically with regard to trans-exclusive women’s spaces. It’s worth a read, and there’s a good comments thread as well.
However, there’s a couple of things that get […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 7th, 2008
It’s been a bad week for LGBT stuff, but I’ve just gotten an email that suggests that the Rudd government might be starting to move on trans issues.
A transwoman who’d stayed married to her former partner but had had SAS has just been notified by Centrelink that the guidelines have changed and they are now […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 6th, 2008
via The Bilerico Project:
The American Psychiatric Association has named the members of it’s working group to reassess the inclusion of Gender Identity Disorder in the forthcoming new edition of the DSM, the DSM-V. It could almost not possibly be worse. The list reads like a who’s-who of obsessed creeps who’ve made a career out of […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 5th, 2008
It’s been a fairly sombre day after yesterday’s revelation that the Civil Partnerships Bill, or at least the most important elements of it, were dead in the water.
We’ve done what we could to get at least some comment out there; for my part, several comments from me are included in this morning’s Age, and I’ve […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 27th, 2008
I find myself having a strange dilemma these days.
I’ve never really passed for straight, or at least not until recently. From the time I was old enough for people to make assumptions about my sexuality, people have thought I was queer. In my early teens, that meant most people assumed I was gay. In my […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 26th, 2008
Sometimes, you have experiences which virtually hit you over your head with your own privilege.
I misgendered another trans woman at work yesterday, and I came within a couple of seconds of putting her in a very embarrassing position because of my own assumptions.
To explain what happened without actually explaining what my job is, a large […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 20th, 2008
I’ve been seriously conflicted this year about the notion of community with other transpeople. I like having people around who can really understand what I’ve gone through, and there’s so many conversations which it’s just very hard to have with even the most understanding cispeople. But at the same time, there’s something that’s been troubling […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 20th, 2008
So I discovered last week that I’m clearly starting to make it in the Australian blogosphere: I’d earned my first hatchet job from a real, live Right Wing Death Beast. I was going to just let this one slide, but after he made a complete arse of himself at Ryan’s, I realised just who it […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 19th, 2008
via Nix Williams:
Erinkyan, of Fat Sexy Gender, has been told by the Monash Gender Dysphoria Clinic in Melbourne that they’re going to prevent him from transitioning until he loses weight. This is screwed to begin with - except that he can’t lose that weight because of a disability.
So I go to the doctor. I tell […]