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Learn more about Amazon Prime. Get fast, free shipping with Amazon Prime. How modern-day drag hurts trans women and achieves little or nothing of value. Particularly, my experiences as a woman whose gender is often considered debatable. Yes, he implied that opposing reproductive rights can be a valid difference of opinion within the atheist movement. Silverman later defended this on Twitter, saying:.
How many anti gay atheists do you know? I know a few anti choice atheists. Chris Stedman, a Humanist chaplain at Harvard, was one of the few to respond to this, saying:. It would be easy to think that support for the LGBT community is nearly universal among atheists. And polling data would seem to confirm this. And the internet-based Secular Census, consisting of a self-selected convenience sample of secular Americans who volunteered to respond, found even higher rates of support: It does look pretty open-and-shut: Believe it or not, equality for LGBT people does not begin and end with marriage.
While there are plenty of polls focusing on marriage equality and the opinions of different demographics on that issue, far less attention is given to these other areas. Certainly, marriage does matter — my partner and I are getting married this summer. But living in this society as a trans woman is something I have to deal with every day. Long before I came out, before I transitioned — before I ever talked about trans issues at all — just about the only thing I covered was atheism, and atheists comprised most of my audience.
But even back then, plenty of people were already under the impression that I was trans. You can clearly see that these atheists have very positive attitudes toward the LGBT community — assuming the T stands for Thunderf00t. Really, what is going on here? And yet, here they are. So, does this mean that their transphobia is due to some failure to let go of religious views on trans people?
When you look at what these atheists are actually saying, their claims have nothing to do with religion. They appeal to the values of science, observation, and reality, because they feel that these values support their transphobia. In many cases, they actually compare being trans to believing in God. The odd thing about having a transgender identity is that your mind does not match your biology.
I understand that people can perceive gender and sex to be different. But when they go on and on about this, it comes off as more of an expression of a stigmatizing attitude, not an articulation of some uncomfortable truth. Instead, the sheer redundancy of such a declaration exposes their total unfamiliarity with the medical consensus. Since , three editions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders have included some kind of diagnosis related to being trans, under names like transsexualism, gender identity disorder, or gender dysphoria.
Some people experience gender dysphoria at such a level that the distress meets criteria for a formal diagnosis that might be classified as a mental disorder. Such a diagnosis is not a license for stigmatization or for the deprivation of civil and human rights. Rather, the distress of gender dysphoria, when present, is the concern that might be diagnosable and for which various treatment options are available. I assume that all the decent people out there already understand this, but apparently some of you need it spelled out.
There were six editions that came before it, dating back to I already saw a therapist about this. And then they referred me to a gynecologist. Tell me again who I should be taking medical advice from? They assume that science and evidence support their position, when actually this most often supports the exact opposite of their position. In reality, a majority of trans people have been harassed just for trying to use public restrooms.
Have a majority of cis people been harassed by trans people in restrooms? Do you know of any? I guess the American Psychiatric Association just needs to go back to middle school, right? So, why would people who engage in this transparent nonsense claim that they have science behind them? They only seem to have a selective interest in the idea of something concrete that would back up their preconceived beliefs.
What else do you call it when someone knows nothing about science and thinks they can blather on and on about it anyway? What do you call it when someone refuses to change their beliefs when faced with evidence? What do you call it when they think their own intuition and baseless conjecture are more reliable than any research?
How is believing that trans people have an unfair advantage in sports any different from believing the earth is 6, years old? Science and observation and reality should matter to everyone, and I hope they matter to you. And this chorus of opposition consists of none other than those most affected by this: That conversation has since elicited a variety of reactions: We, the undersigned trans women and trans-feminine individuals, are appalled at recent attacks on trans woman journalist Parker Marie Molloy published by Calpernia Addams and Andrea James on the Huffington Post and Boing Boing.
They display homophobia, transphobia, ignorance, dishonesty, and hatred throughout. We believe that these pieces should not have been published, and that they are not representative of the views of trans women as a community. Calpernia Addams and Andrea James do not speak for us. Addams and James have chosen to focus on an individual trans woman and personally attack her at length. In reality, the conduct of RuPaul and others has been widely criticized by vast swathes of trans women.
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This is not a new critique that has only arisen due to a lack of experience among young queer trans women. It is a long-standing and well-supported objection, one which has been articulated by trans women of all ages and sexualities. Addams and James ignore this in favor of needlessly inflammatory rhetoric, a regressive defense of gay and lesbian transphobia, and unmitigated contempt for the gender and sexuality of queer trans women.
Their columns do not contribute to this discussion in any meaningful way. To the contrary, young trans women can offer a fresh and contemporary perspective to balance the traditional and stagnant views of those like Addams and James. Whatever decades of experience with trans issues that Addams and James have had, it has not served them well in these recent columns.
Here, Addams has done exactly that. This is not a meaningful argument; it is only more of the same classic transmisogyny. This is, at a minimum, inconsistent. Contrary to James, we do not accept that drag performance is itself a valid excuse for cisgender people to use transmisogynist slurs. Such a rationale is nonsensical. When a word becomes so closely associated with open hostility toward a marginalized group that it is widely considered a slur by the group it targets, this is not itself a justification to continue using this word.
It is rather obviously a compelling reason not to use it. Cis people using transmisogynist slurs are not violating a taboo when the use of such slurs is already broadly accepted among cis people.
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Most of society does not consider it taboo to refer to trans women in these terms — there is no taboo to break. Cisgender male drag queens are assigned male at birth, and they neither consider themselves to be women nor live as women in their everyday lives. Unlike trans women, they are not the ones who regularly face the consequences of widespread transphobia and transmisogyny, and they are not confronted with the fallout of normalizing transmisogynist slurs. This transphobia is no more excusable — it is equally deserving of scrutiny. We do not share this belief.
Elitism and exclusion of queer trans women from queer culture. We believe that trans women have every reason to be angry at the mass media legitimization of transmisogynist slurs by cisgender men, and we question the value of learning from this culture or participating in it, let alone building upon it. It is no point of pride to tolerate a transphobic culture. We ask that Calpernia Addams and Andrea James refrain from publishing further columns exhibiting this variety of homophobia, transphobia, transmisogyny, misgendering, ageism, and unwarranted hostility toward other trans women.
We further ask that Huffington Post, Boing Boing, and other outlets refuse to give a platform to any columns endorsing such prejudice, whether by Addams and James or by others. This letter will be updated regularly. Guest post by Trinity Pixie. My previous post, Green , which I presented without comment, was actually a piece of creative nonfiction. I lived in a place somewhere between rural and suburban. Many houses, few businesses, no public transit. There was a convenience store about a mile and a half away, a grocery store about ten, and in between were a number of people who would likely recognize me from pre-transition — many of whom were happy to attack me previous to transition, without the excuse of queerness thrown in.
I was explicitly not invited to family functions, and forbidden from telling anyone, even my siblings, of my trans status. I had access to medication and health care used as a bargaining chip, was told that I was faking the severity of my disability. I had my own father threaten me with physical harm and make me fear for my life, all the while being told I was the one harming the family. My parents are atheists. They have used labels like secular humanist to define themselves. The reasons, the arguments they would use to defend what they did, how they treated me, are secular.
They are also just as valid as any secular arguments against abortion , so why is it that a leader of the secular movement will acknowledge those arguments, but not acknowledge my parents? Why are you comfortable with violations of the rights of cis women, but not with people like my parents? Who believe slavery should have been a state-by-state issue, and have a secular argument for that.
You need to ask yourself: Trinity Pixie is a member of the Secular Woman advisory board. The past few years of my life have featured various events that repeatedly force me to update significant parts of how I understand myself. I used to see little purpose in life and no path forward for myself, until I created an ongoing open-ended project to direct my energies toward, and coincidentally slid into utter femininity in a matter of months. Then I started HRT and gained the perspective to see just how awful, how suffocating, how unbearable things were before — and how it brought me to a place where I was finally a happy, functional person who truly loved life.
Many of my writings should be considered mostly obsolete for that very reason. I thought I had fixed this. I thought I had found the answer — the reason why I had felt so pervasively uncomfortable for all of my life, and the solution that did what nothing else could and actually made everything better.
I thought I was in the clear to check that off as decisively handled. I was wrong about having fully understood the nature of my problems. And I was wrong about the extent to which transitioning could adequately address them.
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My dysphoria feels like depression. Other people had to tell me. I did my best to convey how this felt for me:. Many trans people told me that this article resonated strongly with them; some said it was as if they were reading what could have been their own journal. Others pointed out that there was substantial overlap between what I described, and the symptoms of depression. To show a connection between these experiences and gender dysphoria, I had to rely on one key point: I figured all I could do was ignore it as much as possible and focus on whatever positives I could find — I gave up hope of ever truly fixing this.
I saw these things as two parallel lines, each progressing on their own path but never intersecting. So it came as a surprise when these two things began to interact: I started HRT in , and almost immediately felt free of all the crushing negativity for the first time in my life. Thus, I learned to recognize dysphoria. I did not learn to recognize depression. Around the end of , I started experiencing what seemed like the same thing all over again:. Because I had previously associated these feelings with dysphoria, my first guess was that all of this had to be linked to gender-related factors.
So that was where I started: Was it my recently-adjusted progesterone dose?
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I switched back to my previous dose — but the relief was only temporary. Surgeries, obviously, are not quite so accessible or easy to experiment with. I was starting to get scared. Things were fine before. That just sounds really abstracted, though. She started a new life with me, in a place where everyone knew me as a woman. She let me know that starting hormones would make me even more desirable in her eyes, not less.
It sounded familiar to her, and she raised the possibility of depression. My next, even more desperate question: I only go to my gynecologist for HRT and the associated check-ups and blood monitoring. Trans people have often found that when they seek care for any sort of illness, their doctors advise them to discontinue HRT regardless of whether their current health problem has any connection to this. This issue is more than anecdotal: We do, so seeking care can be a difficult thing to contemplate. So I went with the option that we already knew the most about.
To me, he seemed like the best bet. Outness is a risk factor for refusal of service: Fortunately, all of this turned out to be a non-issue. He asked how I was feeling, and I told him everything — the way that life had somehow become unbearable for no apparent reason, and the dread I felt at having to face every single day. Everything he said gave me the impression that he understood this well. We worked out a balance of which medication would be both affordable and effective for me, and ended up settling on his first recommendation — something he felt would give me more energy.
People widely regard being trans as an undesirable existence. This urge to avoid the possibility of transness manifests as a staggering variety of excuses and denials. The cis people around us, often our parents and relatives, may claim that our gender-related feelings can instead be explained as a product of:. These are all things that trans people have actually reported hearing from various cis people, and this is not an exhaustive list. Given the prevalence of these creative explanations, trans people in search of reasons to doubt their own transness have ample opportunity to seize on them as well.
But this fervent effort to locate any possible alternatives to transness extends beyond the poorly-informed folklore of laypersons. Under his direction, this program has subjected children to a form of reparative therapy to discourage them from being trans or questioning their gender. He posits that their desire to live as another sex is instead largely rooted in family issues:. First, he thinks that family dynamics play a large role in childhood GID—not necessarily in the origins of cross-gendered behavior, but in their persistence.
Wishing to be a girl will only make you unhappy in the long run, and pretending to be a girl will only make your life around others harder. Whatever conflicts or issues that parents have that prevent them from uniting to help their child must be addressed. He points out that the burden of living as the opposite gender is great, and should not be casually embraced.
Failure to intervene increases the chances of transsexualism in adulthood, which Zucker considers a bad outcome. For one, sex change surgery is major and permanent, and can have serious side effects. Why put boys at risk for this when they can become gay men happy to be men? Alice Dreger, a bioethicist who previously compared gender-questioning kids to children who unseriously pretend to be train engines , promotes a similar idea.
Dreger likewise depicts transitioning as undesirable, and endorses alternatives where possible:. Sex-changing interventions are nontrivial. They involve substantial physical risk, including major risk to sexual sensation, and a lifelong commitment to trying to manage hormone replacement. And the clinician who tries to get a gender dysphoric kid to learn to like her or his innate body really is a Nazi?
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What if a boy could go to school in a dress and still be a boy? As a trans woman, my diagnosis of depression exists within the context of these widespread attitudes. Commonplace medical practices reflect this overabundance of caution, something which became all the more striking when compared to my recent experiences. Unlike in , I did not need to find one of the few therapists in a city of millions who would evaluate me and provide a lengthy referral letter for treatment.
Instead, I was able to go to the same doctor as the rest of my family, and soon found myself sitting in an exam room full of detailed posters about depression and the drugs that might help. Within 30 minutes, I walked out with a prescription in hand.