the trans duo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakla

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathoey

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muxe

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-Spirit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fa%27afafine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%81h%C5%AB

http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1820633,00.html

http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2012/05/30/153990125/in-mexico-mixed-genders-and-muxes

http://www.nativepeoples.com/Native-Peoples/May-June-2014/Two-Spirit-The-Story-of-a-Movement-Unfolds/

http://theculturetrip.com/pacific/samoa/articles/fa-afafines-the-third-gender/

THE WESTERN IDEA OF TWO GENDERS IS EXACTLY THAT

WESTERN

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_and_Judaism

SIX.

JUDAISM.

Think about it this way: A peri cis straight guy finds out that the girl he’s dating is intersex and happens to have a penis or testicles etc. - He gets angry at her for ‘lying’, throwing transmisogynist slurs at her, physical violence etc. Do you really think he’s going to stop his violence if the girl says “Actually I’m not a trans woman, I’m intersex”?

The answer is no. Because, let’s be honest, cisgender and perisex people literally could not give two shits about the difference. They do not care. We violate the sex binary simply by existing, thus our existence is a threat to them.

Intersex people are at risk of violence from people who uphold the sex binary, just like trans people are at risk of violence from people who uphold the gender binary - the sex binary and gender binary go hand-in-hand, and that leads to an overlap in our oppression. And we’re at higher risk of violence if we’re both intersex and trans.

Important information about Philly trans wellness. Tldr: they’ve ousted the trans group running it from the start (was started by a TWoC) and it’s now a cis management team with a problematic history of ignoring/being poorly responsive to transgender concerns. I am withdrawing from presenting next year. You can see me at Trans Ohio instead.

Mod Mayhem

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the pink stripe was simply taken away because pink fabric was too expensive to mass reproduce at the time, and the turquoise stripe was taken away for a really odd reason: for the harvey milk remembrance parade in 1979, they wanted three stripes on each side of the street and didn’t want it to be asymmetrical, so they did away with the turquoise stripe. like, they could have fixed it in some other way without removing a whole stripe, but eh whatever history’s history.

(source 1; article) (source 2; official site)

Anyways: 

Dr. James Barry had a close relationship with Lord Charles Somerset and was subsequently accused of buggery, which led to a court trial and investigation as homosexuality was illegal. He could have revealed that he was female at any time during the trial to escape condemnation, but he did not. Upon his death, Barry left strict instructions that his body was not to be undressed and he was to be buried in his bedsheets. 

Albert Cashier could not read or write, but lived as a man for 53 years, even after fighting in the uniform of a Union soldier, he maintained his male dress and presentation until he slipped and fell, breaking his hip. 

The indomitable stagecoach driver Charlie Parkhurst lived as a man from the time he was 12, and after retiring, maintained his identity as a man until his death.

i’d also like to add

it’s true we can’t know for sure how they would identify today because they didn’t have those words back then. maybe some would id as butch. maybe some would id as trans or nb or transmasc butch or any number of things. they didn’t have the language to do so. 

Because if that was enough of a motivation to cross-dress? We would have had less “women” in history.

But no. When women cross-dressed it tended to be because they had a specific ambition that was worth it. We have a long history of both non-fiction and fiction showing that. Even legends. They wanted to do a specific thing, they did it, and they went back to dressing like women when they were done or didn’t need to anymore.

It’s very different when you continue to dress as a man after you don’t need to anymore. When you don’t even tell the people you love. When your risking a minimum of being outcast from society up to being executed.

Putting up with Dysphoria you didn’t previously have from presenting as the wrong gender isn’t worth that. Guess what is? Finally presenting as the right gender and getting relief from Dysphoria. Possibly even gender Euphoria.

It’s kinda like the whole soy beans and phytoestrogens thing. If soy had a feminizing effect, then trans women would know because we’ve been trying to make it work like that for decades, if not longer.

This is why facile, surface interpretations just can’t hold up to scrutiny. They will always fall apart on the logic.

So, just to restate @shaaknaa’s fantastic addition:

If the men mentioned above were just women trying to escape misogyny, why don’t we have more examples of women pretending to be men for their entire lives to draw from? Why do we have countless examples of women who passed as men for a specific reason, only to go back to presenting as women once that reason had passed?

(Yes, she falls into the same white-feminist trap as a lot of early suffragettes. That’s a whole other can of worms.)

Si necesitáis información sobre cómo cambiar vuestro nombre de nacimiento y sois personas trans viviendo en España, aquí está todo lo que necesitáis: 

Twitter has prohibited misgendering and deadnaming on its platform in an effort to curtail anti-trans abuse.

The social media company has changed its rules to ban the practices and has warned that any user who deliberately targets a trans person in these ways may face permanent suspension.

These offensive techniques—which involve using the wrong gender to refer to a trans person or a trans person’s old name—are often used on Twitter to insult and erase trans people’s identities and right to exist.

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Two-spirit is an identity that belongs to the indigenous people of the Americas, non native Americans or First Nations have no right to call themselves two-spirit or can even be two-spirit.