"I think a lot of people would disagree with the idea that 'cisgender' and 'normal' are basically interchangeable."
that's... kind of the point? the word exists so that we don't have to use the word "normal" with all it's unpleasant implications when talking about general not-trans population. That's what I meant, perhaps I phrased it badly.
like look, just a bit of background - I engage in activism and spend a lot of energy getting trans people with dramatically different outlook on life and their transness to respect and talk to each other. It is possible that I am way too concilatorary. But I just think it's crap to say someone's gender "doesn't make sense" because it does not follow some kind of internal logic. Like, does it ever? Gender is an internal experience. It is inherently emotional.
This does not make Andy more/less transphobic, he has proven himself such on many occasions - from creepy monologues about trans women and penises to implying trans dudes are not dudes.
But again, can we like, respect the history and width of trans identities? I really don't think that stops anyone from seeing Andy is full of shit.
(fyi - there are, for example, women who identify as lesbian even though they fuck all kinds of genders and even feel sexually attracted to all kinds of people - lgbt identities have complicated history, pretty much all of them)
Re: DIscussion of Facebook messages: Carlanime/Necromommycon and Andy
"I think a lot of people would disagree with the idea that 'cisgender' and 'normal' are basically interchangeable."
that's... kind of the point? the word exists so that we don't have to use the word "normal" with all it's unpleasant implications when talking about general not-trans population. That's what I meant, perhaps I phrased it badly.
like look, just a bit of background - I engage in activism and spend a lot of energy getting trans people with dramatically different outlook on life and their transness to respect and talk to each other. It is possible that I am way too concilatorary.
But I just think it's crap to say someone's gender "doesn't make sense" because it does not follow some kind of internal logic. Like, does it ever? Gender is an internal experience. It is inherently emotional.
This does not make Andy more/less transphobic, he has proven himself such on many occasions - from creepy monologues about trans women and penises to implying trans dudes are not dudes.
But again, can we like, respect the history and width of trans identities? I really don't think that stops anyone from seeing Andy is full of shit.
(fyi - there are, for example, women who identify as lesbian even though they fuck all kinds of genders and even feel sexually attracted to all kinds of people - lgbt identities have complicated history, pretty much all of them)