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"Aside from the sheer spitefulness and bigotry the lay behind the Trump Administration's decision to rescind the Obama guidance for schools (which had required schools to allow students to use restrooms corresponding to their gender identity), there is something else I think we need to note and which is rarely discussed. Namely, that transphobia is, at its root, largely about fragile masculinity.How do we know this? Simple: in all the uproar over which bathroom trans folks should use, the only example ever dredged up by transphobes is the "biological" (at birth) male, who dresses as a woman (note, transphobes often think trans people are basically just cross-dressers), and then molests little girls in the womens room at Target or some such thing. Aside from the obvious responses there are no examples of this ever happening, and men have never needed trans bathroom protections to molest little girls, nor have they felt the need to dress as women for the purpose notice what the example signifies. These fears imply that all trans people are trans women (persons whose sex and gender assignment at birth were both male). But what of trans men?
If someone is born biologically a woman and assigned that identity at birth, but their true gender identity is male and they live as a male, present as male and perhaps even have undergone gender confirmation surgery do the transphobes really want that person to go to the womens room? I doubt it. But that is what their preferred policy would dictate that person should do. Which means they arent thinking about such persons at all. Because if they were they would probably be freaked out that these masculine looking women (in their limited worldview) were going to be in such restrooms with their little precious Becky. The fact that they dont think of trans men in the least suggests that their phobia is more about policing masculinity and punishing those men who do not meet their expectations of manhood or who fail to identity with it at all. It is as if they are so afraid of their own sexuality and identity that any consideration of a person born male but who is actually a woman confounds their very sense of self.
Transphobia, in short, is less about fear of the other and more about fear of the self: fear of ones own often complex sexuality, fear that perhaps gender identity and sexual identity are fluid and not binary and thus, are complicated and messy and not simple and easy to understand. Simple minded people like simple minded answers about the world. Complexity scares them. Indeed complexity and nuance and ambiguity are the first casualties of, and the greatest fears of, reactionary thinking.
Which is why when people suggest that trans folks are disordered they have it exactly backwards. It is they who are disordered. They operate on the basis of irrational fears and biases, and an irrational hostility to human complexity. If anyone needs counseling it is the transphobe, not the trans man or woman."
- Tim Wise
tblue37
(65,488 posts)locker rooms and showers:
JHan
(10,173 posts)I mean I wouldn't mind him using my shower tbh.
tblue37
(65,488 posts)Last edited Thu Feb 23, 2017, 08:46 PM - Edit history (1)
Quayblue
(1,045 posts)Their only "concern" is MTF.
Fucking assholes.
Amaryllis
(9,525 posts)pants before they can go in? Sarcastic, but even that wouldn't do it since gender is just not limited to the binary. So how would they enforce it? Major privacy violation no matter how. Like the wall...ridiculous on its face but then when you look at implementation, a whole new level of not even doable.
keithbvadu2
(36,906 posts)bathroom inspector
MontanaMama
(23,337 posts)That kicks ass. Hilarious! Except it isn't. These fuckers need to stfu and worry about their own beeswax.
Amaryllis
(9,525 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,040 posts)erronis
(15,328 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,040 posts)MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)BadgerMom
(2,771 posts)end of story.
greymattermom
(5,754 posts)Ben Barres, M.D.Ph.D. http://www.genderbiasbingo.com/ben-barres-phd/#.WK9zDRiZPHc
Someone who knows first hand about gender bias in science.
JHan
(10,173 posts)in a field where objective analysis is required. It's why I'm usually very skeptical about science studies into gender differences - there's usually something off in the methodology that exposes bias.
Thanks for the link, saving to read later.
Cha
(297,655 posts)Solly Mack
(90,787 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,906 posts)Republicans and the little girls bathroom
3catwoman3
(24,045 posts)Everyone needs to just mind their own damn business.
Delmette2.0
(4,169 posts)And there is everyone in between.
MontanaMama
(23,337 posts)Everyone else IS in between. So true.
Delmette2.0
(4,169 posts)MontanaMama
(23,337 posts)For so many reasons. There is a family-like imagery in it for me with a woman on one side of the spectrum and a man on the other and the beautiful rainbow of all that is possible in between. It brings tears to my eyes. 🌎