Pretty sure you know this person more than I would

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but he (I think he's a trans man, vs. she a trans woman - it's hard to tell from teh name, and the bio intentionally or otherwise does not use a pronoun) came up in my usual reproduction rights articles here. enjoy if it's new to you!

    Green mowse.pngGodot She was a venus demilo in her sister's jeans01:47, 21 January 2013

    That article reads like something right out of the Postmodernism Generator.

      Mjollnir.svgListenerXTalkerX01:54, 21 January 2013

      I, like ListenerX, am rankled whenever someone uses words that I haven't approved of yet.

        Star of David.png Radioactive Misanthrope02:42, 21 January 2013

        I thought the same first time I saw it, though it's not to do with the word use but more about the phrasing and how it's structured. Perhaps not as far as the po-mo generator, but certainly reminiscent of a terrible undergraduate essay in places. I can't quite put my finger on it, but there is something stylistic that makes it a P.I.T.A to read.

          Scarlet A.pngmoral08:48, 21 January 2013
           

          Whaddaya know, the first comment I see is by Cathy Brennan, and it's oozing with contempt. What does she even do? It's like every time someone is talking about transgender issues on the internet, she's there. Maybe Brennan is actually a bigoted AI that gained self-awareness as Janice Raymond's PC

            "Shut up, Brx."02:55, 21 January 2013

            I'm calling Poe on that HuffPost account. Or maybe she's actually gone insane. Either is possible.

              Picon small.pngLiquid Blue03:00, 21 January 2013

              Brennan's post reminds me of something Fred Phelps said about a transgender/"cisgender" couple in one of those infamous faxes of his: "These two fags want to have perverted sex with one another, so they pretend one of them is a woman."

                Mjollnir.svgListenerXTalkerX03:16, 21 January 2013
                 

                Either way, that sounds like Brennan's views, and if your actual opinion is indistinguishable from someone taking the piss out of your views...

                  Scarlet A.pngpostate08:45, 21 January 2013
                   
                   
                   

                  Thanks for the link! The bio does say he's a he and I assume he's a trans man; interesting historical reading nonetheless. The larger thesis seems to be about the commonality between the women's reproductive rights movement and the activism, loosely-defined, of trans women as it manifests in the politics of people of color.

                    Picon small.pngLiquid Blue02:58, 21 January 2013

                    I thought the article's point was that focusing on abortion rights discounts the concerns of trans-women to whom abortion rights mean diddly-squat.

                      Mjollnir.svgListenerXTalkerX03:00, 21 January 2013

                      A trivial interpretation, I think.

                      "[N]o matter how one physically occupies the identity of a woman, the threat of economic hardship as a product of structural racism and misogyny, inevitability regulates their sexuality and how they engage their bodies in sex. / It also points to the historical similarities of community mobilizing that exists amongst all women of color..."

                        Picon small.pngLiquid Blue03:05, 21 January 2013
                         
                         
                         
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