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(a)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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