Doing some continuing ed for my license renewal this year, a transgender issue came up and I decided to head into cyberspace to check it out. Well, as things go, one link led to another and I found myself reading the feverish, grim and fanatical sites of the Sexually Offended Marginals. One woman, a very, very butch lesbian enraged by her invisibility as a Butch Woman --she is frequently taken for a man, and understandably-- is also dead set against transgenders, most especially ftms. It's just "self-hating and pointless self-mutilation in hope of escaping the masturbatory Male Gaze. You're not born in the wrong body. You're born in the wrong society!" Alice in Wonderland, with a dash of Stalin and Queer Theory. And some transgender sites have her in their sights for legal action. One flower child lovingly and tolerantly opined that since "we" are all one in our sexual orientations, as a community, we must do everything we can to take down "haters" like her. The victim-tyrant dynamic runs rampant.
And people think that religion makes you crazy.
Had some flashbacks about the grimly self-righteous and endlessly self-parsing identity groups, especially of wymyn, among the Queers back in Toronto when I worked in the AIDS field. Dark stuff, airless and deadly. And, not to put too fine a point on it, pretty nuts.
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