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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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Cristan Williams commented on the post, The RadRight And The Restroom

[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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Cristan Williams commented on the post, I'm A Trans Woman And I'm Not...

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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Cristan Williams commented on the post, Team Pick: "The Gender Book" Is The...

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 Williams commented on the post, Team Pick: "The Gender Book" Is The...

An ace of hearts?

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Cristan Williams commented on the post, Team Pick: "The Gender Book" Is The...

[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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Cristan Williams commented on the post, Team Pick: "The Gender Book" Is The...

@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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Cristan Williams commented on the post, Team Pick: "The Gender Book" Is The...

@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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Cristan Williams commented on the post, Team Pick: "The Gender Book" Is The...

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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Cristan Williams commented on the post, Team Pick: "The Gender Book" Is The...

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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Cristan Williams commented on the post, Team Pick: "The Gender Book" Is The...

[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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Cristan Williams commented on the post, Team Pick: "The Gender Book" Is The...

@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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Cristan Williams commented on the post, Team Pick: "The Gender Book" Is The...

@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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Cristan Williams commented on the post, Team Pick: "The Gender Book" Is The...

@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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Cristan Williams commented on the post, Team Pick: "The Gender Book" Is The...

@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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Cristan Williams commented on the post, Team Pick: "The Gender Book" Is The...

@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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Cristan Williams commented on the post, Team Pick: "The Gender Book" Is The...

@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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Cristan Williams commented on the post, Team Pick: "The Gender Book" Is The...

@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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Cristan Williams commented on the post, Anti-Trans Radical Feminists Team Up...

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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