Comments on: Transphobia On Film, Hoosier Style

By: LoneCorn

LoneCorn — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 05:36:02 +0000

Just as an FYI — the Bloomington Pride committee actually does view this film (and Crouch’s public comments) as transphobic and as a result they are flying in Susan Stryker from SF to speak about it and have decided not to give Crouch a place on the panel. They are showing it so that people begin to recognize transphobia for what it is. A discussion of social influences behind transitioning? Great; bring it on. But laying the blame on trans people for homophobia and the oppression of the gender binary? Historically transphobic rhetoric. There’s a big difference.

By: LoneCorn

LoneCorn — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 05:36:00 +0000

By: Lisa Harney

Lisa Harney — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 19:15:38 +0000

Not dissing trans people at all? It’s all about “butch flight” fears, how butch lesbians are supposedly “fleeing womanhood,” and are supposedly pressured to transition.

Look up “The Emperor’s New Gender” – you can find it on a website called “Questioning Transgender” or the Vancouver Rape Relief website. Or check out this blog entry,/a> that discusses it.

By: Lisa Harney

Lisa Harney — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 19:15:00 +0000

Not dissing trans people at all? It’s all about “butch flight” fears, how butch lesbians are supposedly “fleeing womanhood,” and are supposedly pressured to transition.

By: Karen S

Karen S — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 15:51:27 +0000

Yes, but the people showing intolerance are the not the transpeople. We do not say people should not be lesbian or gay. We don’t say that a butch lesbian is not a woman, or that an effeminate gay man is not a man. We certainly do not say that such a person must or even should transition their gender.

We say that identity is personal; that if we understand ourselves to be misgendered, we may do what we will to live our lives out as we choose.

Transpeople only ask that if we feel the need to change our gender, that we be allowed to do in peace, and be respected for what is the most difficult thing we may have to do in our lives.

It is absolutely hypocritical for transpeople to say to LGB folks* that we wish to impinge upon, or even queston your identities as LGB folks. We don’t do this, as a group. We would appreciate the same courtesy.

* BTW, there are more than a few of us that identify as LGB…I am a lesbian, as I posted below.

By: Karen S

Karen S — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 15:51:00 +0000

We say that identity is personal; that if we understand ourselves to be misgendered, we may do what we will to live our lives out as we choose.

Transpeople only ask that if we feel the need to change our gender, that we be allowed to do in peace, and be respected for what is the most difficult thing we may have to do in our lives.

* BTW, there are more than a few of us that identify as LGB…I am a lesbian, as I posted below.

By: Daniel Pratt

Daniel Pratt — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:55:08 +0000

Well, not everyone is choosing to participate in this discussion which is obviously not really a discussion at all. Trust me, there is more than one.

By: Daniel Pratt

Daniel Pratt — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:55:00 +0000

Well, not everyone is choosing to participate in this discussion which is obviously not really a discussion at all. Trust me, there is more than one.

By: Marti Abernathey

Marti Abernathey — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 23:41:10 +0000

I have asked them.

I’ve heard exactly ONE transgender person support it. That’s not “many.”

By: Marti Abernathey

Marti Abernathey — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 23:41:00 +0000

I have asked them.

I’ve heard exactly ONE transgender person support it. That’s not “many.”