RE: Transgendered children
August 17, 2015 at 7:03 pm
(This post was last modified: August 17, 2015 at 7:20 pm by Regina.)
I feel like this discussion is going around in circles and I'm getting tired of it
For the last freaking time, it's not a "faze" when you have felt a particular way consistently for years on end.
You also don't have to think of yourself as "masculine" if you are a cisgender (and heterosexual) man. Everything you are typically interested in as a cis/het man is given automatic credibility, because you are seen as natural and the default. That doesn't mean your gender doesn't exist, it just means it's never questioned or side-eyed. Therefore, you don't have to internalize your gender and think about it the way a transgender person is forced to. You can just be yourself and float through life quite comfortably, not challenged on it.
For the last freaking time, it's not a "faze" when you have felt a particular way consistently for years on end.
You also don't have to think of yourself as "masculine" if you are a cisgender (and heterosexual) man. Everything you are typically interested in as a cis/het man is given automatic credibility, because you are seen as natural and the default. That doesn't mean your gender doesn't exist, it just means it's never questioned or side-eyed. Therefore, you don't have to internalize your gender and think about it the way a transgender person is forced to. You can just be yourself and float through life quite comfortably, not challenged on it.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
