RE: The right to mis-define oneself
June 14, 2015 at 8:20 pm
(This post was last modified: June 14, 2015 at 8:22 pm by Regina.)
I'm pretty sure most transgender people are more scared of us than you are of their bits.
Context here, trans people are questioned, gossiped about, oggled, fetishized, harassed, sexually assaulted, beaten up and murdered. The murder rate for transgender people is an absolute disgrace. This isn't The Hangover, this is real life, trans people are not going to trust anyone they've just met to invite back to their place for a quickie. I imagine it's a life of being contantly on the look out for danger.
In short, they're waaaay more worried about what you might do to them, than you are about what's in their pants.
Context here, trans people are questioned, gossiped about, oggled, fetishized, harassed, sexually assaulted, beaten up and murdered. The murder rate for transgender people is an absolute disgrace. This isn't The Hangover, this is real life, trans people are not going to trust anyone they've just met to invite back to their place for a quickie. I imagine it's a life of being contantly on the look out for danger.
In short, they're waaaay more worried about what you might do to them, than you are about what's in their pants.
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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
"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
