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transgender woman.
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* Documentaries
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- [[http://www.disclosurethemovie.com/about][Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen]] :: An in-depth look at the history depiction
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- [[file:20210104192232-disclosure_trans_lives_on_screen.org][Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen]] :: An in-depth look at the history depiction
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of transgender people in film and television and the impact it's had on our
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society.
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#+title: Is trans a slur
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Trans is merely the accurate descriptor. To my knowledge it's never been
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[[file:20210101025247-transgender.org][Trans]] is merely the accurate descriptor. To my knowledge it's never been
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inherently negative, though the tone of a person using it may sometimes be. It
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has certainly been perverted into slurs, e.g. "tranny" It does seem some folks
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has certainly been perverted into [[file:20210104201824-slur.org][slurs]], e.g. "tranny" It does seem some folks
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see the idea of transness so repulsive that they interpret it as a slur,
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something to fling at someone they see as less than, particularly when they fail
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to meet some perceived standard of appearance In that sense, it mirrors common
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derogatory use of "gay" Or, the good old misogynistic labeling of perceived
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insufficient masculinity as being "girly"
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to meet some perceived standard of appearance. In that sense, it mirrors common
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derogatory use of "gay", or the good old misogynistic labeling of perceived
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insufficient masculinity as being "girly".
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Honestly, all three of those things likely had a significant impact on my own
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progress on a sense of self. That sense that being non hetero was a negative,
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#+title: Is cis a slur
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Cis is literally just the antonym of trans (see [[file:20200809221723-is_trans_a_slur.org][Is trans a slur]]).
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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
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is a slur]].
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Oftentimes I see it used dismissively in the face of cis folks describing how
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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
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#+roam_key: http://www.disclosurethemovie.com/about
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A Netflix documentary providing an in-depth look at the history depiction of
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transgender people in film and television and the impact it's had on our
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society.
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#+title: "Ya'll Better Quiet Down" speech
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Sylvia Rivera's famous speech in New York City at the Christopher Street
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Liberation Day Rally in Washington Square Park on June 24, 1973.
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#+begin_quote
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“I may be… You all better quiet down. I’ve been trying to get up here all day
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for your gay brothers and your gay sisters in jail that write me every
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motherfucking week and ask for your help, and you all don’t do a goddamn thing
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for them. Have you ever been beaten up and raped in jail? Now think about it.
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They’ve been beaten up and raped after they’ve had to spend much of their money
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in jail to get their self home and to try to get their sex changes. The women
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have tried to fight for their sex changes or to become women of the Women’s
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Liberation and they write STAR, not to the women’s groups, they do not write to
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men, they write STAR because we’re trying to do something for them. I have been
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to jail. I have been raped, and beaten. Many times. By men, heterosexual men
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that do not belong in the homosexual shelter. But, do you do anything for me?
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No. You tell me to go and hide my tail between my legs. I will not put up with
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this shit. I have been beaten. I have had my nose broken. I have been thrown in
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jail. I have lost my job. I have lost my apartment for gay liberation and you
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all treat me this way? What the fuck’s wrong with you all? Think about that! I
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do not believe in a revolution, but you all do. I believe in the Gay Power. I
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believe in us getting our rights, or else I would not be out there fighting for
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our rights. That’s all I wanted to say to you people. If you all want to know
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about the people in jail – and do not forget Bambi L’Amour, Andorra Marks, Kenny
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Messner, and other gay people in jail – come and see the people at STAR House on
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Twelfth Street on 640 East Twelfth Street between B and C apartment 14. The
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people are trying to do something for all of us, and not men and women that
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belong to a white, middle-class white club. And that’s what you all belong to!
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Revolution now! Gimme a ‘G’! Gimme an ‘A’! Gimme a ‘Y’! Gimme a ‘P’! Gimme an
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‘O’! Gimme a ‘W’! Gimme an ‘E! Gimme an ‘R’! huh— Gay power. Louder! Gay Power!”
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#+end_quote
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#+title: Slur
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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
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unsafe in public.
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#+end_quote
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* Chapter 4: The Difficult Decades
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** The Transexual Empire
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Janice Raymond's inflammatory book "The Transexual Empire: The Making of the
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She-Male" is covered, in which a connection between transexualism and naziism is
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imagined through some curious leaps of imagination. Citing Magnus Hirschfeld
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being German as a link, somehow, despite his institute and its literature being
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the highlight of nazi book burnings. That nightmare of a book came out in 1979.
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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]].
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** Sylvia Rivera's speech
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Susan does a real nice job of contextualizing Sylvia Rivera's [[file:20210104192606-ya_ll_better_quiet_down_speech.org][short impassioned
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speech]] in 1973, which was featured in Netflix's "[[file:20210104192232-disclosure_trans_lives_on_screen.org][Disclosure]]" documentary,
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regarding divisions and tensions with cis and white members of the gay and
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feminist movements.
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** Pathology and treatment
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The contradiction is pointed out between the pathologization of queer and trans
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identities (there is something wrong that needs to be treated) vs. labeling
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treatment as cosmetic or otherwise not medically necessary (don't treat it).
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#+begin_quote
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In spite of it being recognized by psychomedical professionals as a legitimate
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and diagnosable psychopathology, treatments for GID were not covered by health
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plans in the United States because they were considered “elective,” “cosmetic,”
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or even “experimental.” This was a truly inexcusable double bind—if GID was a
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real psychopathology, its treatment should have been insurable as a legitimate
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health care need; if treating it was not considered medically necessary, it
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should not have been listed as a disease.
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#+end_quote
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* Chapter 5: The Millennial Wave
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** AIDS and the reclamation of "Queer"
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Interesting. It's now gotten into the reclamation of the "queer" [[file:20210104201824-slur.org][slur]] as part of
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the various LGBT communities coming together to deal with the AIDS epidemic. Not
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the most fun way to pull disparate communities together, but certainly an
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effective one. *Diseases, it turns out, are quite impactful on disadvantaged
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minorities, and aggressively intersectional.*
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