I follow you cause it’s you 😉 honestly, I know it sounds odd to say but I’ve enjoyed learning more just through your feed. Sometimes I think we’re ignorant to the stuff out there in the world that doesn’t affect us. I think it’s good to have that stuff put in front of you to make you want to know more and understand things beyond your comprehension.
I obviously don’t enjoy the hateful remarks and comments but I never knew what a terf was and now I do. Knowledge is power etc. If you don’t mind me asking – so I know I have a grip of the situation – you’re of the belief that trans gender folk shouldn’t deny who they were before they transitioned? From what I can understand in my limited twitter stalking and seeing the convos etc, some trans folk deny the sex they were born and say it’s their right as a trans gendered person to do so? Whereas you embrace the idea of the biology that you were born with but now consider yourself a transgendered person as a separate entity to the basic idea of man and woman? That is, do you believe there is man, woman and transgender?
Sorry, I don’t know if this is too personal or if I’m making any sense. I am genuinely interested in the debate.
I did applied Cultural Studies at uni and focussed on gender and the music industry. My gender tutor is the whole reason I am who I am today. That Sarah Brown woman fried my brain. Obviously my understanding of this can only go so far but from my naive and basic knowledge on this subject, I find it sad that she isn’t able to embrace who she is and wants to be categorised as woman. I mean I get transitioning means that you are achieving the female form but as a group of people I find myself wondering why you can’t celebrate the joy of who you are…I imagine this is because being accepted is such a big thing and even nowadays people are so close minded and ignorant. I struggle with the feminism side of things in a similar way.
I think people like Sarah Brown could do with reading some of the French Feminist works. When I studied the likes of Lacan, Irigaray, Kristeva, Cixious etc, it blew my mind. The idea of destroying everything and starting from scratch – FUCK – I felt desperately sad but it soon all sunk in and I got to grips with it. It made me realise how we each have a responsibility of writing our own life / stories. Watching the debate that you have been trying to promote amongst the haters reminded me of that too. For me it feels like you are writing from your true personal experience without having society dictate how you feel or should feel. And that’s a beautiful thing that should be celebrated.
I should shut up now….!
I really do hope that what you’re trying to discuss with the transgender community sticks and people take notice. Again, I have no real say in this, but being impartial I would honestly love to see a new dawn of thinking – for men, women and trans folk. I don’t know how long it will take or if it will ever happen but it’s people like you keeping the debate alive that inspire me to keep on learning and finding out more about the world beyond me and my shit!
This has been posted with permission. I felt flattered someone would take the time to write so much nice to me.
I would like it to stand alone, I will publish my reply which clarified some points over how see myself etc. in due course. These will be obvious to readers of this blog.
