There is no #LGBWithTheT where the heterosexual majority will respect lesbians and gay men having boundaries. Trans-identified heterosexual people’s use of “same-gender attraction” redefines us against our will. #LGBWithoutTheT presents resistance to occupation and colonization.
Lesbians and gay men who transition do exist. But they are the minority. Their existence does not justify forced teaming us with heterosexual people. Trans-identified homosexual people have been included, by default. Many have desired otherwise in wishing for the straight world.
Increasingly, many have come to see that most trans-identified people are heterosexual, not homosexual. This fact has been neglected due to “same-gender attraction” masking opposite-sex attraction. Lesbians and gay men need separation from heterosexual people redefining us.
Can we leave the current relationship without being punished for leaving? If not, then why? We are not being regarded as equals—and have not been. Our bodies, our minds, our history, and our movement have been hijacked. There are no coinciding interests there on which to work.
Transgenderism has not even remotely served the best interests of lesbians and gay men. Yet many among us seem to exhibit queer separation anxiety. Why? It may be considered a kind of Stockholm syndrome. To cope with a situation of abuse, the abused learn to love their abusers.
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Gloria Steinem first published ‘Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions’ in 1983, collecting her writings from the 1960s-1970s. In 1995, its second edition did not exclude any of the original pieces from 1983. Both editions included Steinem’s 1977 critique of transsexualism.
First published in the February 1977 issue of ‘Ms.’ as “If the Shoe Doesn’t Fit, Change the Foot,” this essay critiques the misogyny and sex-role stereotyping of “the transsexual empire.” Like Raymond, Steinem emphasizes “the medical establishment.” She notes “societal forces.”
The selections that follow come from the 1995 edition of ‘Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions.’ It is the last edition where the above essay appears. Steinem only lightly challenges transsexualism, as we see, but even the slightest rebellion needed to be effectively stifled.
Clitoridectomy, being the surgical reduction or removal of the clitoris, had been regarded as “mental health care,” by knife or scissors, for women diagnosed with “mental health conditions” in Victorian England.
According to Sheila Jeffreys (1987): “Isaac Baker Brown used clitoridectomy to ‘cure’ women of complaints as various as epilepsy, not wanting to have anything to do with their husbands, and painful periods” (p. 2).
Brown applied a kind of “watchful waiting” approach to deciding when to perform the clitoridectomy. Yet those who suffered from various conditions could easily be interpreted as “fit” subjects for surgery.
Between MRA and TRA ideologies, men talk of women as being either “feminazis” and “misandrists” or “TERFs” and “transmisogynists.” Pages like Paul Elam’s ‘A Voice for Men’ and online “trans” forums, all mainly dominated by males, provide many examples along these lines. (1/9)
Quoted in an epigraph to the 2013 essay titled “Beware the Rapetard Society,” seen here in a rather typical example, Elam writes: “Telling men they can end rape is like telling minorities they can end stealing. Feminism is a whole new level of hate.” (2/9) avoiceformen.com/a-voice-for-me…
Apart from invoking the awful stereotyping of racial and ethnic minorities as natural, where racism becomes amplified by underlying sexism, rape becomes naturalized as both inborn and innate to the male sex—ironically by those claiming to defend men from radical feminists. (3/9)
When I work with students on practicing style formatting, I make paper samplers, where I provide the first page of a few papers and/or general referencing information, and we format our references together. I love picking the samples! Plus, hands-on practice can be most helpful.
Freud, A. (1977). Fears, anxieties, and phobic phenomena. The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 32(1), 85-90. doi.org/10.1080/007973…
Dishion, T.J. & Dodge, K.A. (2005). Peer contagion in interventions for children and adolescents: Moving towards an understanding of the ecology and dynamics of change. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 33(3), 395-400. doi.org/10.1007/s10802…
Angela C. Wild (@FrenchFem) of @GetTheLOutUK did the research “Lesbians at Ground Zero,” involving the survey of 80 women, published March 2019. Having seen claims against her work, here is a thread on an older piece of “peer-reviewed” research. (1/25) gettheloutuk.com/blog/category/…
Let us begin with a look back. A work that has been consistently referenced by transsexual rights activists past and transgender rights activists present is “Lesbian/Feminist Orientation Among Male-to-Female Transsexuals” by Deborah Feinbloom et al., published in 1976. (2/25)
Feinbloom authored the 1976 book ‘Transvestites & Transsexuals: Mixed Views,’ available on the Internet Archive for interested readers—although a general view of points made in Feinbloom’s book, privileging heterosexual males, appears in the study. (3/25) archive.org/details/transv…
“For in reality the language and imagery of androgyny is the language of dominance and servitude combined. One would not put master and slave language or imagery together to define a free person.”
- Janice G. Raymond, “The Illusion of Androgyny” (1975)
“Integrity gives us a warrant for laying claim to a wholeness that is rightfully ours to begin with and from which centuries of patriarchal socialization to sexual roles and stereotyping has detracted.”
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“An intuition of integrity in this sense is characteristic of the texture of be-ing (becoming) and prior to cultural definitions of masculinity and femininity.”
- Janice G. Raymond, “The Illusion of Androgyny” (1975)