Cristan Williams commented on the post, The RadRight And The Restroom
No, as it turned out Lanie is a TERF and this crap is a perfect example of TERF tactics. The fact that she supports a world in which trans folk don’t exist didn’t come out until after this exchange.
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[Um, that doesn’t deny the fact that you weren’t too happy about being called out by POCs for comparing the bathroom issue to segregation.] Please make you critique in context instead of cherry-picking...
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Back in the 1990s, I had been living full-time for a while. I had to change therapists at the time and my new “transgender expert” psychologist asked me when I was going to start dressing like a woman....
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Cristan Williams commented on the post, Team Pick: "The Gender Book" Is The...
I know all of these amazing people. This is such an awesome project. Thanks for showcasing their work! Also, that’s a great pic of the original group in front of the Houston Transgender Center
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This pic was taken yesterday at the transgender center. It’s just some trans folk sitting around their awesome trans center making fun of separatism: http://i.imgur.com/fHD4vWw.jpg In the room there’s...
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[Cristan, the largest numbers of people under the banner of Intersex are those with CAS or are XXY… very few of those people identify under a trans umbrella and to put them within that label is just...
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@ginapdx [When you you place entire communities and labels under an umbrella, you better make certain there’s some pretty definite agreement of consent before doing so. ] That makes no sense to me....
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@sela: [I would also add that I think including drag queens and kings is pushing it.] @ginapdx: [Drag queens/kings are a somewhat recent addition to the “trans umbrella.”] No, that’s just not so. From...
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Here’s the thing, if you identify with “transgender” because you feel you step out of that cis box in some way, you’re transgender. Transgender meant transsexual before transsexual meant transsexual....
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This isn’t a “this is the way all must identify” thing. This is a “this is what you find in the transgender community” thing. I know a few transgender-identified two-spirit people. Two of them, both...
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[it doesn’t show some two-spirit people under the transgender umbrella and some outside it – it only shows two-spirit people under it and the point it means to convey is that all two-spirit people are...
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@ZenW [Perhaps this picture, then, should make some sort of clarification that you COULD find these types of people under this term, but that some people choose NOT to identify that way.] But they do...
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@Andreea [ I’d put different Christian denominations under it, that is, groups of people who all identify as Christian] Really? And you believe that all Christians would go for that? You’d put the...
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@ginapdx Instead of simply asserting that I’m wrong, that I’m on a “crusade,” etc, why not actually make an evidence-based response? Why not take the explicit points I’ve made and specifically address...
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@Bhan I think the point everyone makes is that if some intersex, transsexual, drag queens, etc don’t identify as “transgender” then it’s somehow inaccurate to represent that you will find intersex,...
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@ZenW By way of an explanation, here’s a 20 year old quote from an interview with the indomitable Leslie Feinberg: Davina: So you would consider anyone who crosses established gender boundaries in any...
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@Sela [As to the two-spirit inclusion, you don’t really get to have an opinion. Not even a little bit. I don’t care how many people from “actual tribes” you know.] Please stop stawmanning me. I’m not...
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@Sela Thank you. You’ve just proven my point: [I can give you a long list of articles about being “transgender” going back decades asserting that “transgender” is not monolithic and compulsory, and...
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Folks, today I learned that Jane Doe is on suicide watch. Here’s how you can help: http://www.transadvocate.com/what-happens-when-pji-is-confronted-by-parents.htm
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Cristan Williams wrote a new post, The RadRight And The Restroom
The Rhetoric If you’ve not yet heard, discourse surrounding trans equality has been reduced to arguing about whether or not men should have access to the women’s restroom. Trans equality measures have...
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The endgame of bigotry is always some from segregation. The market of ‘separate but equal’ and/or ‘people like you aren’t welcome’ is not cornered by racial bigots alone. No matter the type of bigot,...
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Thank you… and THANK YOU for the support!
View ArticleCristan Williams commented on the post, The RadRight And The Restroom
I think we’re talking past each other. I was very clear to explicitly state that there are different forms of bigotry and that all of them lead to a systems of segregation, as defined by the...
View ArticleCristan Williams commented on the post, The RadRight And The Restroom
Gha! I really should proofread before posting! ‘lead to systems’ not ‘lead to a systems’ Ceiling, not sealing Derp :/
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The dictionary definition of segregation is: “separation or isolation of… group[s] by enforced or voluntary residence in a restricted area, by barriers to social intercourse, by separate educational...
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Oh, hell! Thanks for pointing that out! Gha!
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Gwen, are you admitting that trans equality IN NO WAY nullifies laws prohibiting rape, assault, stalking and/or public indecency/disturbance? Yes? Then, what is the underlying reason for wanting...
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[Yes, there are no trans female rapists, and cis women who are concerned are just bigoted, that’s all.] If one thinks that transwomen pose an inherent risk, that person is someone who chooses to hold...
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@Lanie Sorry, I missed your response in the mix. [I am simply suggesting that (and maybe I’m missing where you’re agreeing or conceding this point)historically Africans were treated as commodoties,...
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[African Americans are the racial/ethnic group most affected by HIV.] This is an incorrect understanding of what is know about the epidemic. For example, Sub Saharan Africa is where the epidemic is...
View ArticleCristan Williams commented on the post, The RadRight And The Restroom
Yeah, about that. See this post: http://www.transadvocate.com/bigots-unite-deploying-the-klan-fallacy-in-3-2-1.htm … and then this […]
View ArticleCristan Williams commented on the post, The RadRight And The Restroom
I really appreciate your comment for its supportive tone. I totally recognize the frustration. Having said that, it kinda sucks that this, being my very first post on this site, represents just a “same...
View ArticleCristan Williams commented on the post, The RadRight And The Restroom
Asserting “they’re men” is an appeal to emotion. In fact, you’re appealing to the exact narrative the RadRight has so effectively used. [All your tender Queer tolerance, for everyone but Females.]...
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There’s not even 10 docs who work in the field – in the world – who buy what what Lawrence, Blanchard, Bailey are selling due to its demonstrable confirmation bias and blanket assertions. Their ideas...
View ArticleCristan Williams commented on the post, The RadRight And The Restroom
Gha! Gross! It sucks that there’s a need to document that level of hate… But it’s needed and I’m glad that they’ve done it.
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