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transgender woman.
* Documentaries
- [[http://www.disclosurethemovie.com/about][Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen]] :: An in-depth look at the history depiction
- [[file:20210104192232-disclosure_trans_lives_on_screen.org][Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen]] :: An in-depth look at the history depiction
of transgender people in film and television and the impact it's had on our
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#+title: Is trans a slur
Trans is merely the accurate descriptor. To my knowledge it's never been
[[file:20210101025247-transgender.org][Trans]] is merely the accurate descriptor. To my knowledge it's never been
inherently negative, though the tone of a person using it may sometimes be. It
has certainly been perverted into slurs, e.g. "tranny" It does seem some folks
has certainly been perverted into [[file:20210104201824-slur.org][slurs]], e.g. "tranny" It does seem some folks
see the idea of transness so repulsive that they interpret it as a slur,
something to fling at someone they see as less than, particularly when they fail
to meet some perceived standard of appearance In that sense, it mirrors common
derogatory use of "gay" Or, the good old misogynistic labeling of perceived
insufficient masculinity as being "girly"
to meet some perceived standard of appearance. In that sense, it mirrors common
derogatory use of "gay", or the good old misogynistic labeling of perceived
insufficient masculinity as being "girly".
Honestly, all three of those things likely had a significant impact on my own
progress on a sense of self. That sense that being non hetero was a negative,

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#+title: Is cis a slur
Cis is literally just the antonym of trans (see [[file:20200809221723-is_trans_a_slur.org][Is trans a slur]]).
Cis is literally just the antonym of [[file:20210101025247-transgender.org][Trans]]. It is not a [[file:20210104201824-slur.org][Slur]] any more than [[file:20200809221723-is_trans_a_slur.org][trans
is a slur]].
Oftentimes I see it used dismissively in the face of cis folks describing how
they think a trans person feels or ought to feel / behave, in which case that

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#+title: Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen
#+roam_key: http://www.disclosurethemovie.com/about
A Netflix documentary providing an in-depth look at the history depiction of
transgender people in film and television and the impact it's had on our
society.

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#+title: "Ya'll Better Quiet Down" speech
Sylvia Rivera's famous speech in New York City at the Christopher Street
Liberation Day Rally in Washington Square Park on June 24, 1973.
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“I may be… You all better quiet down. Ive been trying to get up here all day
for your gay brothers and your gay sisters in jail that write me every
motherfucking week and ask for your help, and you all dont do a goddamn thing
for them. Have you ever been beaten up and raped in jail? Now think about it.
Theyve been beaten up and raped after theyve had to spend much of their money
in jail to get their self home and to try to get their sex changes. The women
have tried to fight for their sex changes or to become women of the Womens
Liberation and they write STAR, not to the womens groups, they do not write to
men, they write STAR because were trying to do something for them. I have been
to jail. I have been raped, and beaten. Many times. By men, heterosexual men
that do not belong in the homosexual shelter. But, do you do anything for me?
No. You tell me to go and hide my tail between my legs. I will not put up with
this shit. I have been beaten. I have had my nose broken. I have been thrown in
jail. I have lost my job. I have lost my apartment for gay liberation and you
all treat me this way? What the fucks wrong with you all? Think about that! I
do not believe in a revolution, but you all do. I believe in the Gay Power. I
believe in us getting our rights, or else I would not be out there fighting for
our rights. Thats all I wanted to say to you people. If you all want to know
about the people in jail and do not forget Bambi LAmour, Andorra Marks, Kenny
Messner, and other gay people in jail come and see the people at STAR House on
Twelfth Street on 640 East Twelfth Street between B and C apartment 14. The
people are trying to do something for all of us, and not men and women that
belong to a white, middle-class white club. And thats what you all belong to!
Revolution now! Gimme a G! Gimme an A! Gimme a Y! Gimme a P! Gimme an
O! Gimme a W! Gimme an E! Gimme an R! huh— Gay power. Louder! Gay Power!”
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#+title: Slur
A derogatory term for a group of people.

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vulnerable to certain kinds of legal discrimination, and it often made me feel
unsafe in public.
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* Chapter 4: The Difficult Decades
** The Transexual Empire
Janice Raymond's inflammatory book "The Transexual Empire: The Making of the
She-Male" is covered, in which a connection between transexualism and naziism is
imagined through some curious leaps of imagination. Citing Magnus Hirschfeld
being German as a link, somehow, despite his institute and its literature being
the highlight of nazi book burnings. That nightmare of a book came out in 1979.
Meanwhile, the BBC [[https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/02/11/graham-linehan-newsnight-transgender-children-nazi-doctors-puberty-blockers/][continues to host nutjobs making the same exact claims]].
** Sylvia Rivera's speech
Susan does a real nice job of contextualizing Sylvia Rivera's [[file:20210104192606-ya_ll_better_quiet_down_speech.org][short impassioned
speech]] in 1973, which was featured in Netflix's "[[file:20210104192232-disclosure_trans_lives_on_screen.org][Disclosure]]" documentary,
regarding divisions and tensions with cis and white members of the gay and
feminist movements.
** Pathology and treatment
The contradiction is pointed out between the pathologization of queer and trans
identities (there is something wrong that needs to be treated) vs. labeling
treatment as cosmetic or otherwise not medically necessary (don't treat it).
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In spite of it being recognized by psychomedical professionals as a legitimate
and diagnosable psychopathology, treatments for GID were not covered by health
plans in the United States because they were considered “elective,” “cosmetic,”
or even “experimental.” This was a truly inexcusable double bind—if GID was a
real psychopathology, its treatment should have been insurable as a legitimate
health care need; if treating it was not considered medically necessary, it
should not have been listed as a disease.
#+end_quote
* Chapter 5: The Millennial Wave
** AIDS and the reclamation of "Queer"
Interesting. It's now gotten into the reclamation of the "queer" [[file:20210104201824-slur.org][slur]] as part of
the various LGBT communities coming together to deal with the AIDS epidemic. Not
the most fun way to pull disparate communities together, but certainly an
effective one. *Diseases, it turns out, are quite impactful on disadvantaged
minorities, and aggressively intersectional.*