Wednesday, February 11, 2004
Slightlyfoxed directs our attention towards the first transphobic article in the Guardian of the year from Julie Bindel, who seems to have been drafted in to fill the seat left vacant by her near namesake Ms. Birchill. Possible good points that she might make if taken on their own are knackered by the fact that when she deploys them here they are to the detriment of, mainly, MtoFs, who are, you guessed it, blokes in frocks. That's presumerably why she decides to segue from rapists and serial killers to the story of a Canadian MtoF who had sued an organisation set up to counsel rape victims when they refused to train her as a counsellor. Now, I would have tended to come down on the 'I think it unwise for a transwoman to be a rape counsellor' side of things but then I came across this page which, about two thirds down, mentions that Nixon was herself a rape survivor, and this post which suggests that Bindel's problems with transsexuals are old and numerous.
Call me old-fashioned, but I thought the one battle we feminists won fair and square was to convince at least those left of centre that gender roles are made up.
Shit, I must have missed school the day that the headmistress called a special assembly to announce that one. It couldn't be that < gasp > people might disagree with her opinion, aren't as well read as her or (in the case of the part of her rant where this quote comes from) don't expect to have to have a philosophical argument in order to use the little girl's room?
If you are tired of being stared at for snogging your same-sex partner in the street, have a sex change.
Surely that statement is offensive to every queer and transsexual in the known universe?
Call me old-fashioned, but I thought the one battle we feminists won fair and square was to convince at least those left of centre that gender roles are made up.
Shit, I must have missed school the day that the headmistress called a special assembly to announce that one. It couldn't be that < gasp > people might disagree with her opinion, aren't as well read as her or (in the case of the part of her rant where this quote comes from) don't expect to have to have a philosophical argument in order to use the little girl's room?
If you are tired of being stared at for snogging your same-sex partner in the street, have a sex change.
Surely that statement is offensive to every queer and transsexual in the known universe?
