Comments on: Media attention. Good until it’s not. http://pingyourspaceman.wordpress.com/2008/10/21/media-attention-good-until-its-not/ Truth that goes crunch. Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:53:10 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Schala http://pingyourspaceman.wordpress.com/2008/10/21/media-attention-good-until-its-not/#comment-30 Schala Sat, 24 Jan 2009 12:56:56 +0000 http://pingyourspaceman.wordpress.com/?p=30#comment-30 The major point I have against articles like that is that they paint the children exactly like the GID diagnosis in the DSM - ie that it's about gender roles, feminity, masculinity, and not at all about feeling the body is foreign. Then this opens us up to feminist theorists who will say "if gender roles didn't exist, transsexual people wouldn't transition, they'd be happy without changing". The major point I have against articles like that is that they paint the children exactly like the GID diagnosis in the DSM – ie that it’s about gender roles, feminity, masculinity, and not at all about feeling the body is foreign.

Then this opens us up to feminist theorists who will say “if gender roles didn’t exist, transsexual people wouldn’t transition, they’d be happy without changing”.

]]> By: Lisa Harney http://pingyourspaceman.wordpress.com/2008/10/21/media-attention-good-until-its-not/#comment-8 Lisa Harney Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:16:19 +0000 http://pingyourspaceman.wordpress.com/?p=30#comment-8 Haha. I've had a couple posts about exactly that topic. It's painful reading trans-related posts on Feministing. I haven't even looked for the post on this. I have so had my fill of cis people making declarations of how trans people should be raised. I love, for example, how it's impossible for anyone to know which gender they identify with before they turn 18 - but only if trans! Haha. I’ve had a couple posts about exactly that topic.

It’s painful reading trans-related posts on Feministing. I haven’t even looked for the post on this. I have so had my fill of cis people making declarations of how trans people should be raised. I love, for example, how it’s impossible for anyone to know which gender they identify with before they turn 18 – but only if trans!

]]> By: averydame http://pingyourspaceman.wordpress.com/2008/10/21/media-attention-good-until-its-not/#comment-7 averydame Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:14:18 +0000 http://pingyourspaceman.wordpress.com/?p=30#comment-7 <i>This article is problematic on an extreme number of levels. I hate it so much.</i> It drives me up a wall, because people are so frequently willing to read such pieces uncritically. I had to stop reading the Feministing comments on it because I just could not take any more pontification. Especially from cisgendered/sexual people who felt it was their job to dictate how childrens' experiences should be interpreted. (Then again, ranting about how Feministing can't seem to have one thread on trans issues without a load of cisgender privilege from their commenters is another post altogether.) This article is problematic on an extreme number of levels. I hate it so much.

It drives me up a wall, because people are so frequently willing to read such pieces uncritically. I had to stop reading the Feministing comments on it because I just could not take any more pontification. Especially from cisgendered/sexual people who felt it was their job to dictate how childrens’ experiences should be interpreted.

(Then again, ranting about how Feministing can’t seem to have one thread on trans issues without a load of cisgender privilege from their commenters is another post altogether.)

]]> By: Lisa Harney http://pingyourspaceman.wordpress.com/2008/10/21/media-attention-good-until-its-not/#comment-6 Lisa Harney Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:59:48 +0000 http://pingyourspaceman.wordpress.com/?p=30#comment-6 This article is problematic on an extreme number of levels. I hate it so much. :( This article is problematic on an extreme number of levels. I hate it so much. :(

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