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[baratron]

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".

Comments

Re: To what extent are m, f and transgender exclusive categories?

[a-musing-amazon.livejournal.com]

Thanks for this barakta.

Having checked, the actual report is indeed more complex than the summary - and still simplifies - I quote:

Identity

Because of the way the question was worded, with space for people to self describe their gender, we categorised the responses in three broad ways: people who self-described as mostly to only male; people who self-described as mostly to only female; and people who self-described as transgendered, genderqueer, or gave a strong mix of gender terms.
Because of the way that people did this (e.g. “mostly female, trans”), these categories are not mutually exclusive, and therefore should not add to 100%

Gender

Female (mostly to only): 47%
Male (mostly to only): 36%
Trans / genderqueer: 19%

Many attendees wrote extra information around this question because they were unhappy with the categories given. For example, some people wrote ‘transgender’ or some variant upon the term; a mix of gender descriptions such as ‘effeminate male’; or words to indicate they resist the use of labels in this way, such as ‘fluid’ or ‘me’.