thank you, Johanna, for helping me understand
the ways that in-betweeners like myself are used against transexuals.
my existence, as a person who in some way embraces and rejects the
categories of both male and female, is not a rebuke to the lives of
transexuals.
i do not believe that everyone should embrace and reject the categories
of male and female.
i do not believe that transexuals have the responsibility to repair
gender for the entire world.
i do believe that transexual women have the right to enter women's
space.
that transexual men have the right to enter men's space.
in particular, transexual women have been crucial in the creation
of women's space. some of the most committed feminists, some of the
most activist dykes, some of the hardest workers in creating women's
space, have been transexual women. for nontransexual women to attempt
to exclude transexual women from these spaces is vile. completely,
utterly, vile.
and for them to say that i--because of my height; because of the
fact that i was born with a cunt; because of my high-pitched voice;
because of the accident of my birth--have more of a right to enter
women's space than transexual women have--
well that's not only vile, it's idiocy.