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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: This may make me staggeringly unpopular..

[baratron.livejournal.com]

I wear men's socks. OH NOES I'M A SOCK TRANSVESTITE!

syllopsium said:
Wear what you want
If someone appears to be strongly female gendered, refer to them as female.
If someone appears to be strongly male gendered, refer to them as male.

Personally, I see you as strongly female gendered, so your clothing is as irrelevant as my socks. Which is the point I'd been trying to make in my original post :)

Re: This may make me staggeringly unpopular..

[a-musing-amazon.livejournal.com]

Mostly nitoda knits my socks. I've never asked her what their gender is but they are really nice and do fit my feet very well.

If you asked nicely maybe she could knit you some too and save you the embarrassment of having to out yourself as a sock transvestite in M&S - though I suppose you just tell them that you are buying for wuzzie ;-).