TransAdvocate

Marti - you were amazing! Articulate, informed and faaaabulous!! XX

It’s patently ridiculous that Ms. Crotch opens her movie with a statement that “trannies” - a derogatory term when used by non transgender & transsexual people - agreed with the fundamentalists to take away peoples right to choice over their own bodies, and then denies any negative or harmful intent towards transgender people.

The main enemies of transgender & transsexual people are of course - fundamentalists. Ms. Crotch knows this but chooses to ellide this essential fact in her depiction of us. Anyone who visits and fundamentalist web site would see how they speak of us - the language they use is remarkably similar to hers.

The choice that we’ve been fighting for for so many years is the one she posits we support eliminating. The right for one to control their own bodies. She’s unhappy that some are making choices she finds repulsive and wishes to eliminate our ability to make those choices. In that - she’s no different than operation rescue. She wouldn’t make this choice, she doesn’t like others amking this choice and therefore - others are “forcing her” to live with it is the real subtext of her plot. Diversity is portrayed as forced compliance - again - just like the fundumentalists.

And let’s be honest here. The diversity of gender expression and embodiment is so much greater in our extended communities than that within her own community as to make her comments laughable. As you mention - we have traditionally & non-traditionally gendered persons whose bodies can exhibit much greater diversity of sex characteristics than her own - but we’re subverting choice?

You know, Ms. Crotch - if you wish to focus your lens on those enforcing gender comformity - you might wish to look at your bretheren in the gay community like John Aravosis. Those who have attacked anything of the feminine in those born to male bodies so publicly in the enda debates as being abnormal. Whose personal ads fairly teem with the term “no fems”. They certainly have much more power than transgender & transsexual people. They’re the ones portraying gender and sex as rigidly bound, femaleness and femininity as worthy of ridicule and sexual orientation as inseperable from gender expression.

But ultimately - you need to stop laying the system others created & have so much more power over at our feet. We’re a tiny group of very powerless people. When you chose to place the cause of the ills of society on our backs - you’re performing a very specific politcal act that has a long history. You’re scapegoating us. You seek to gain power and associate yourself with those in power by making us the enemy of both of you. You seek to define yourself (and them) as normal and us as less than fully human.

You’re the problem you claim to abhor.

Yep that’s fine, I’ll do it tonight!