How important is passable/female identity?

[hankhavelock]

Originally Posted by Bionca

Hank - I prefer the term "blend" over "pass". I mean the opposite of "pass" is "fail" and I refuse to believe that any trans woman is a failure at being a woman.

Missy B, the one and only thing that worries me about the term "passability" is it's inherent despect for transsexuality as a concept. It is as if it doesn't recognize the beauty of trans*reality.

Why is it that a transsexual woman should "pass as anything"? Why can't she just be a transsexual woman?

I ofcourse know your answer to this one, but I'd like to challenge a little bit the neglect of transsexuality as a beautiful "state of mind" in its own right.

As Fiona (my x) once put it beautifully: "I'm a woman, but a TRANSSEXUAL woman not a bio-woman, and I'm happy to be..." I found that to be one of the most important and deep statements I've ever heard from a trans*woman. She pinpointed in so many words the whole issue.

Well, I'm just a fuzzy little "tranny-lover", so I reckon I'm biased, but yet...

H