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20200806193233-educating_people_about_transgender_issues.org

@@ -19,6 +19,6 @@ know what [[file:20200719003936-being_transgender.org][Being transgender]] means
   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
   society.

20200809221723-is_trans_a_slur.org

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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
+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
+derogatory use of "gay", or the good old misogynistic labeling of perceived
-insufficient masculinity as being "girly"
+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,

20200809222035-is_cis_a_slur.org

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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

20210104192232-disclosure_trans_lives_on_screen.org

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#+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.

20210104192606-ya_ll_better_quiet_down_speech.org

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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.
+
+#+begin_quote
+“I may be… You all better quiet down. I’ve 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 don’t do a goddamn thing
+for them. Have you ever been beaten up and raped in jail? Now think about it.
+They’ve been beaten up and raped after they’ve 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 Women’s
+Liberation and they write STAR, not to the women’s groups, they do not write to
+men, they write STAR because we’re 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 fuck’s 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. That’s all I wanted to say to you people. If you all want to know
+about the people in jail – and do not forget Bambi L’Amour, 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 that’s 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!”
+#+end_quote

20210104201824-slur.org

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+#+title: Slur
+
+A derogatory term for a group of people.

SusanStryker2021.org

@@ -17,3 +17,37 @@ relationships with many friends and relatives more difficult. It made me more
 vulnerable to certain kinds of legal discrimination, and it often made me feel
 unsafe in public.
 #+end_quote
+* 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).
+
+#+begin_quote
+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.*