Trans Women Who Want To Destroy Gender

Thu, 15 Jan 2015 02:03:10 +0100

I have to admit, self identified trans women who want to have a “world without gender” really do confuse me. Below is one such transwoman:

If there is no gender, how can one identify themselves as trans anything? And if you do and you see sex as an unmovable binary, it would seem to me that you’d have to say that you’re a male trans woman. If you say that, aren’t you implying that gender and sex are different and that “woman” is your gender identity? Even if you claim there’s a difference because you spell it differently (“transwoman@, not “trans woman”), how is that not appropriation?

When people say they want to “destroy gender”, the same question that Cristan asked keeps popping into my head:

What does abolishing gender look like? Does it look like this?

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Again, how does that work? Realistically, how does one sit in a chair made of plastic, speaking into a microphone made from metal and plastic, serve up images on a plastic and metal computer, and look out of glasses made of plastic, while demonising it? How does one say abolish gender, while calling themselves a transwoman? What am I missing?

logicfail on Marti Abernathy

Trans Women Who Want To Destroy Gender