The internet is rife with narratives connecting the consumption of pornography, particularly involving transgender people, and self-realisations of transgender.
There is a danger that gender non-confirming behaviour in children is being interpreted not as this being a child who will grow up to be homosexual, rather our feminine boys and masculine girls are being perceived to be and treated as being “transgender”.
These were my thoughts on a temporary recess from gender politics. I’m back and, I think, producing better work.
The words of males like Juno say so much about how they, and other males, see women; this provides insight into how the transgender male’s ‘transition’ can be interpreted as an expression of male sexuality.
Rather than being a movement to campaign for the equality of women with men, the end result is a women’s movement that reinforces the oppression of women, with women oppressing women.
The commonality of these narratives is striking, within these seven stories mention is made of the following: a preference for pink (7/7), hair (6/7), princesses and dresses (5/7), ‘toys for girls’ (5/7).
In case anyone thought violent rhetoric and misogyny are new to the transgender movement, here are some violent receipts made against a working class feminist.
This image of Jenner is not “a man becoming a woman” but “a man becoming a man’s idea of what a woman should be.”
I’ve been thinking about my position on the ‘Drop the T from LGBT’ campaign a lot…
Thus, transsexuals generally fall into two types: homosexual transsexuals and non-homosexual autogynephilic transsexuals.