You know what I want? A place where women can come together and talk. I hope they won't get hung up on - or especially belittle each other - if they prefer to say *about themselves* "I am a woman," or "I am a cisgender woman," or "I am a woman-born-woman," or "I am a trans-woman," or whatever.
And I sure hope that wouldn't be the main thing we talked about.
Lightbreather
On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 9:42 PM, Carol Moore dc carolmooredc@verizon.net wrote:
Since I started a minor brouhaha on cisgender, I figured I should provide some examples of women (and feminists) who dislike the phrase. Frankly, I never have gotten a handle on what gender means and never use the phrase gender at all except in gender gap, only because "sex gap" obviously is not useable. I think sexual stereotypes - and the resultant imposed sexual roles, sexual discrimination, sexual abuse, etc. - are the problem; all this talk about gender confuses the issue. People who are born intersex may choose to use that phase or identify with one sex or the other. Those who state they are really individuals of the opposite sex trapped in the wrong body certainly can define themselves as transgenders or transsexuals. But trying to redefine all individuals (straight, gay/lesbian or bi) by whether or not they are transgender or cisgender is absurd.
http://sarahditum.com/2014/04/21/notes-from-a-non-cis-woman/
http://liberationcollective.wordpress.com/2012/06/08/a- feminist-critique-of-cisgender/
http://bugbrennan.com/2012/12/12/cisterhood-is-powerful/
http://uppitybiscuit.wordpress.com/2007/01/19/do- not-call-me-cisgender-you-do-not-have-my-permission-to-name-me/
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/378511/cis-ridiculous- christine-sisto
http://bmgnedra.wordpress.com/2014/03/28/sscabdscab- reframing-the-conversation/
http://glosswatch.com/2014/04/20/beauty-and-the-cis/ http://glosswatch.com/2014/04/24/9-reasons-why-cis-isnt-working/
http://bigboobutch.com/2013/09/16/cis-queerly-not-yours/
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