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Genderqueer

The problem with those who wish to defy and deny the binary by those who define themselves as 3rd gender, transgender, bigender, genderqueer, genderfluid, polygendeer, etc. is that regardless of their non-binary identification, they still bring binary sexual anatomy to sexual relations and they tend to select partners on that basis.

Simply put, Leslie Feinberg, born female by sex has assumed the mantle of transgender as genderqueer and eschews conventional pronouns like he, she, his her and instead wants pronouns like ze and hir. But by not having sex reassignment surgery, “ze” brings into a human sexual relationship a preponderantly “female” body. “Ze” is not having sex with a penis and is not denying the use of hir vagina and clitoris. “Ze” has chosen a wife and partner who appears to be unremarkably female and binary and I suspect that their sexual relationship resembles that of a lesbian couple

Kate Bornstein had sex reassignment surgery 25 years ago and has lived to regret it. “Ze” has also taken up the mantle of the “3rd Gender” and also wants to be addressed with gender neutral pronouns. But “ze” has kept the female name Kate, and has continued to present “en femme”, “ze” says as a matter of self-defense against those who would do hate violence against “hir”. But “ze” has not expressed an interest in male “reconstructive” surgery and continues on as a sexual being bringing a preponderantly “female” body to sexual relations. And like Leslie Feinberg, ze has chosen a partner who is unremarkably female and binary and their relationship appears to be lesbian.

Thomas Beatty, a transman became notorious and nationally famous as the “Pregnant Man”, although he was not the first ever to become one. This stretches self-identification to the limits of absurdity. It is readily understood why some people would want to become parents before transitioning, as it maybe the last opportunity they have before engaging in a transitional process that may terminate their reproductive capacity. But no one knows of the uncertain risk of a transman who has been on testosterone for any length of time and what harm it could do to an ensuing pregnancy. But in any case he will have to see an obstetrician/ gynecologist (a woman’s doctor) and if he goes to a hospital he will get to stay in the women’s obstetrics ward with all those binary-adhering “mothers”.

I had a friend once who was a transman. He “detransitioned” when He fell in love with a man that he wanted to marry as a woman. They were engaged. Their relationship ended when “she” discovered his stash of “kiddie porn” and he had been violent towards “her” and “she” had him arrested. So “she” re-transitioned back to male. And then “he” discovered “he” was pregnant! Now he could have gone the route of Thomas Beatty or he could have use a “man’s right to an abortion” (actually a woman’s right) to terminate the pregnancy fathered by a pedophile. But at last word “she” had decided to carry the baby to term.

But like the facetious “man’s right to an abortion”, how did we ever get to where it was OK for a man have his wife artificially impregnate him with a turkey baster through “his” vagina into his uterus so that he could carry the child that she could not? For Thomas Beatty, it was such a noble, chivalrous, manly thing for him to do. and then he could show off his ever expanding belly and flat male chest!

The Bisexual Inclusion around 1990 and Transgender Inclusion and Revolution of the mid 1990s can be seen as an attempt to expand the scope, power and influence of the collective “community” by creating a broad coalition of sexual minorities. In a sense all sexual minorities can be read as transgressors of gender to the extent that queer-identified are not doing what is expected of them as men and women.

What was problematic with this kind of inclusion is that it attempts to both queerify and equivocate all forms of differential sexuality, yet champion a wide range of diversity. You cannot destroy the binary while attempting to shoehorn everyone under the transgender umbrella. Bodies and human sexuality is essentially binary and even attempts at defining transgender depend upon binary terms to explain it.

Bisexuals are only accepted and included and in L G B T when they exhibit or show their “queer” sexuality and not any “straight” inclinations. Lesbians have excluded bisexual women in order to preserve ideological lesbian “purity of the revolution”.

To be trans- “sexual” is to change sex. And the change of our sexuality is the last word in our revolution and the last word in our transition that did not begin and end with the change of a gender role. A transsexual journey is a journey on the road to happiness through the attainment of a congruence of mind and body. Transsexuals will settle for nothing less than congruence.

We terminate our membership in our sex of birth and end our ability to function in that sexuality and instead have enabled our sexuality as the sex we have transitioned to.

“Sexual Identity” is whether you agree or disagree that you are a member of the assigned sex and whether or not you accept the sexuality and the sexual and reproductive role of that sex.

Postoperative transsexuals who are heterosexual are lost in their incorporation and inclusion in L G B T. They are not interested in having sex with gay men. Gay men regard them as traitors who denied their being “gay”. And they are not interested in lesbians, many who don’t accept or regard them as real women anyway.

Those transsexuals who are lesbian don’t find themselves invited in or affirmed by Lesbian separatists.. They certainly don’t want sex with gay men- but find that most lesbians are only willing to accept them as “transgender” women if they accept them as women at all– and they find themselves told to go be with the other “male-bodied” gender variants and stay away from the “womyn-born-womyn”!

Transsexual women had been vilified and purged by lesbian separatists from women’s spaces since the 1970s and expelled from the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival. And by gays who saw them as traitors to gay men. Some lesbians were inviting transmen in –where they and/or their partners had once defined themselves as lesbians. So when Transgender people were invited I kept looking for the apology, the invitation or the “Welcome Sign” for me, a transsexual lesbian who was distinctly a victim of discrimination by lesbians and gays for having had sex reassignment surgery. To this day, I still don’t know what kind of “transgender” women they had in mind to invite. Even some lesbians would be willing to surrender their lesbian identity and partner with a transman rather than be with a lesbian transsexual.

At best, we have been regarded as “separate but equal” and told to go be with our own kind in our own T room as if all gender variants belonged together, transsexual, transgender, drag queen & crossdresser, which would be a fine political coalition- but the Lesbians have effectively locked us out of the “L” room and none of them or any gays are willing to fight the Janice Raymond- born Separatist Apartheid.

To be trans- “gender” is to change gender role. Gender is a sociocultural role construct that is a cluster of roles played that conform to the societal expectations of behavior and identity by those sexually assigned.female or male. Change of gender is the last word in the transition of those whose journeys stop– ending midway to becoming unified in body and mind.

Transgender people are willing to settle for less than what transsexuals are seeking.

“Gender Identity” is whether or not one accepts the associated gender roles that are societal expectations for those persons assigned a given sex. While there many be an infinite number of gender role possibilities that are presented as a choice by gender, it is indeed most likely that other than in the strictest biological, reproductive or physical sense, that there should be very little of human endeavors that cannot be accomplished by persons of either sex.

To accept sexuality as a male or female by sex or to accept a cluster of gender roles assigned to a given sex is to subscribe to the gender binary of male and female. But despite the infinite gender role possibilities, the fact is that with rare exception among people who are intersex– most people who are sexual beings bring into relationships only one set of sexual apparatus and engage in the sexuality of that set regardless of whether there is a confirming or congruent sexual (gender) identity.

And 99+% of the people on earth accept their binary role all though they may indeed push the boundary of arbitrary cultural gender role expectations, that is they still want to be male or female. The 3rd gender or genderqueer identified people are not going to convince 6 billion people on this planet to overturn the gender binary for the sake of a minute few.

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