Word, but I feel like we have to start somewhere? The original beef with Queen Emily's post I had that akiko linked was that the person never directly addressed the issues, but instead said, "you reify gender more, so ha!" and sort of left it at that. She probably addresses the issue more seriously elsewhere, so it was probably not the best example of an entry to link to.
For the record, I have no problem with people who strongly identify as one gender or another. But sometimes I feel like both the trans- and cis-communities are so focused on gender==because of the importance of their experience--that they forget that there are those of us who don't care or would like to move fluidly between both extremes frequently. They seem to get offended when people point out that their actions can reinforce binary genders. So what? Yes, their insistence that gender is important and identifying--in the eyes of someone for whom gender is neither--can seem to force upon them the importance and necessity of it. But so? That's who they are and that's okay.
We would just, once a while, like to them to realize that some people would rather not identify with one gender or another, because even if there one day is a spectrum, I don't want to be on it at all. ANYWHERE. Because I don't like the idea of it, and I am not playing that game. I feel like a lot of people are becoming aware of the spectrum, but there isn't enough awareness of the folks who don't believe it's a deal at all.
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Date: 2010-06-23 05:22 pm (UTC)From:For the record, I have no problem with people who strongly identify as one gender or another. But sometimes I feel like both the trans- and cis-communities are so focused on gender==because of the importance of their experience--that they forget that there are those of us who don't care or would like to move fluidly between both extremes frequently. They seem to get offended when people point out that their actions can reinforce binary genders. So what? Yes, their insistence that gender is important and identifying--in the eyes of someone for whom gender is neither--can seem to force upon them the importance and necessity of it. But so? That's who they are and that's okay.
We would just, once a while, like to them to realize that some people would rather not identify with one gender or another, because even if there one day is a spectrum, I don't want to be on it at all. ANYWHERE. Because I don't like the idea of it, and I am not playing that game. I feel like a lot of people are becoming aware of the spectrum, but there isn't enough awareness of the folks who don't believe it's a deal at all.