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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?

[x-mass.livejournal.com]

transexual is a subset of transgender along with drag, crossdressing, transvestites, androgynes, femme men, butch women etc etc

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

[a-musing-amazon.livejournal.com]

Only in the same sense that gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, BDSM, etc. are subsets of Queer.

Defining your our uber-category is fine but don't expect everyone you think is included to join.

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

[x-mass.livejournal.com]

oh i agree the point was that nobody exclude others, tge current situation is that transexual call them selves transgender and some of them think it only applies to them. And transvestites/cross-dressers think of themselves as transgender but only include transexuals as those that have "gone all the way"