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Sep. 3rd, 2008 04:42 pm
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Following Some Events at BiCon, there are various rants taking place in various places about pronouns for transgendered people and how the hell are you supposed to know if they're transgender if they're wearing normal clothes? Here is my comment:

As a cisgendered female, I have the right to wear trousers, t-shirts, no makeup and stompy boots. Why should a transgendered female have to dress any differently?

Or in other words, "It's a girl's t-shirt".

Date: 2008-09-03 04:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nmg.livejournal.com
Boggle. Why does it matter whether you can tell that they're transgendered? It isn't even that most people's records of successfully telling the gender of cisgendered folk is 100%...

Date: 2008-09-03 05:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] baratron.livejournal.com
True. But while the wrong pronoun is amusing or just annoying for a cisgendered person, it is actively offensive for a lot of transgendered people. It brings back many years of memories of being treated The Wrong Way.

Some people have been arguing that a person should wear clothing appropriate to their gender to clue in others as to what their gender is - but in doing so, they are suggesting long skirts and lots of make up (a nice return to 1950s style gender roles). My point is that all of the clothing I wear comes from the "women's" clothing department, therefore it is women's clothing. If you are not a person who feels comfortable in make up, why should you put some on to make people realise you're female? And, to be perfectly honest, if we're dealing with goths and bisexuals - how the hell would make up or skirts even help?

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