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seeing or remembering posted by cedar filed in uncategorized 13 comments why trans people should mobilize for high speed passenger rail october 16 2009 so for those of you not following us rail politics earlier this year the house passed its 2010 spending bill on transportation allocating 4 billion to high speed rail but the senate s version is a measly 1 2 billion capital improvements on already existing airports on the other hand are getting 3 5 billion in both bills they re working it out in committee now and you should tell them to make sure high speed rail gets the four billion you re probably wondering why the hell i m posting about this yes i m an environmentalist but that isn t really the point yes compared to a direct flight 110 220mph rail would reduce total travel time including public transit to and from the airport station and time spent at station airport dramatically not only on short trips like chicago to milwaukee or 400 mi trips like chicago to st louis slightly shorter than a trip between tokyo and osaka or minneapolis but even an 800 mile trip from chicago to new york city would take a similar amount of time and less money and much more accessible for the large numbers of us that are poor as with single payer health insurance i really doubt anyone who s lived anywhere where high speed rail was prevalent needs selling on it but as important as environmental economic and convenience reasons are trans folks and undocumented immigrants have a lot more at stake specifically airport security airports are not a good place to be trans and they keep getting worse with body scanners and mandatory gender reporting at flight booking on top of the id checks randomized pat down searches and sexually harassing invasive baggage inspection e g putting the inspected tag around a dildo or packer or confiscating sex toys floggers etc that we re already used to railway stations on the other hand have minimal if any such procedures putting trans people at risk what are you going to do hijack a train and do what with it you can t exactly fly to damascus with it let alone into the wtc so in the interests of a transportation future that s not so awful for trans folks and in fact better for everybody go support rail fourbillion com midwest high speed rail association us high speed rail association national association of railway passengers posted by cedar filed in uncategorized leave a comment trans superpowers september 25 2009 it s time to admit it we have superpowers you heard me right trans people simply by virtue of being trans have superpowers after all there s only one of us to every 200 500 cis people or according to the official statistics every 20 000 yet we are solely responsible for upholding or destabilizing the gender binary you realize that means each of us has the political strength of over 1000 cis people maybe more like 40 000 talk about superpowers we can even turn an obscure three letter word into a weapon for another example in women only space trans women aren t allowed in because our penises might make the space unsafe might trigger people just our theoretical penises mind you we don t have to take our clothes off or even actually have penises just lurking threat of our bodies makes the space totally triggering and unsafe think about it a half a percentage of us but we can make a space more triggering than 49 of cis men can the power at the same time we d dominate all the conversations even the one s we re not in but especially the ones where we re outnumbered fifty to one we are truly amazons forget about spike or buffy or edward cullen or the centurions even the mighty glorificus would be quaking in her heels teetering even don t forget while we re at it we re creating an empire and making cis women obsolete in our spare time since we spend most of it pursuing bizarre sex fantasies or relentlessly pawing at straight men think what we could accomplish if we just went public and admitted it stop hiding our strength stop pretending to be normal stop disavowing what we we all have men women and genderqueers male privilege in its purest most concentrated form far more potent than cis men s and that s just one of our powers why if we just really put our heads together we could pass enda in fifteen minutes and finish off universal health care in the rest of the hour without even breaking a sweat we really need to aim for the sky like eradicating poverty and bringing about world peace only you can stop forest fires so save the whales posted by cedar filed in uncategorized 6 comments the myth of in visibility august 27 2009 i can t count how many times trans men have complained of being invisible or where they or admittedly transphobic cis women justified paying more or exclusive attention to trans men s issues because of their lack of visibility or implied that my visibility as a trans woman was a form of privilege but in visibility is an incoherent idea one is not simply visible or invisible like harry potter putting on his cloak invisibility cloaks don t exist some people can see you even if you are wearing one and one is always standing on the other side of a wall behind a tree relative to someone and the near side of the wall in front of the tree relative to someone else what invisibility universally fails to ask is to whom is one visible and why under what circumstances and in what light am i visible to the friend looking out hir window for a houseguest through the binoculars of a peeping tom or within the crosshairs of a sniper rifle the concept invisibility implies that these things are all linearly correlated so that as my chances of being harassed on the street go up so do my chances of finding a partner who will know about and be sensitive to my issues and be a fierce advocate for me and the fact that trans men don t get murdered at anything approaching the same rate as trans women drag queens and crossdressers is something that will change as they get more spots on oprah hah these things are only weakly correlated trans women are the targets of the large majority though by no means all of cis feminist transphobia and almost all pathologizing objectifying fetishizing misgendering transphobic non feminist sociological psychological sexological and anthropological research while trans men and conflatedly faab genderqueers get the bulk of positive sympathetic though not necessarily trans positive feminist research maab genderqueers in this scheme are subsumed into drag queens crossdressers trans women trans women have the overwhelming edge on number of autobiographies the surviving ones for some weird reason are all with two mid 90 s trans woman bashing smash the gender binary exceptions of the disempowered desexualized pity me medical model variety despite empowered trans woman writers of the period like susan stryker sandy stone and angela douglass who did in fact write an unpublished autobiography and several also problematic pornographic autobiographies no longer extant see joanne meyerowitz how sex changed 198 202 but trans men s books have on the whole taken a much more empowered line with sexuality discussed on their own terms in a non fetishizing way as serano writes in whipping girl these were the only stories of trans women s lives that were allowed to be told some might say better something problematic than nothing and while there s limited truth to that up until sometime in the 1990s there s no room for argument in 2009 and though with serano s book there is a public and empowered voice for white trans women s issues and films such as still black attempt to broadcast the admittedly under publicized lives voices and issues of trans men of color our women of color s self advocacy has never or almost never been amplified by publishing or filmmaking institutions yet trans women of color are all over self published media the blogosphere and murder reports and fetishizing exploitative media articles that almost universally omit their voices and ideas see my 2008 post about this phenomenon the closest thing to an exception would be paris is burning and if you ve read butler and prosser on the subject you ll likely agree that it s not really an exception though it is a highly enjoyable film to oversimplify trans women are visible as a sexual threat as sex objects as objects of derision and hate and as objects of pity trans men are visible as potential partners as activists and revolutionaries as an invisible group that deserves your advocacy and recently as parents the thomas beatie case is the exception that proves the rule the unusually degrading media treatment that drew totally justified anger and analysis happened only in response to his pregnancy and open defiance of cisnormativity and transphobic eugenics where that kind of media coverage is par for the course for trans women regardless of what they do and doesn t get that kind of attention analysis and anger simply because it is so common and you know because fewer people and institutions care that many trans men victim blamed beatie for this coverage and were angry about this making them look bad represents a tacit understanding that visibility isn t inherently good or bad but only good or bad relative to specific circumstances and situations let s dump visibility and start thinking about to whom as what under what circumstances when why to what end and at what cost a bit of a tangent related is the idea that trans men pass better either a because people don t think about trans men or b because testosterone is powerful manly and dominant while estrogen is submissive and weak rather than being related to a the ways in which masculinity is seen as natural and femininity as artificial and suspect see whipping girl and b male as default see kessler and mckenna gender an ethnomethodological approach chapter 6 toward a theory of gender also anthologized in the transgender studies reader stryker and whittle eds see the overlay study in particular which talks about how male gender cues count much more strongly toward gender attribution than female gender cues edit 3 20 am general note for about half an hour after a post is first published i m revising it generally without edit notations i always intend it to be done before it s published but it never is html doesn t work out the way it s supposed to etc the substance stays the same this time it was trying to get the spaces in between the bullet pointed paragraphs plus to oversimplify but if you re wondering did something just change it might have after half an hour though i generally include a note and my half hour s up posted by cedar filed in cissexualist science intra community trans misogyny language politics trans misogyny transphobia tags feminism internal politics intersectionality invisibility language politics male privilege misogyny racist trans misogyny visibility 10 comments cis august 14 2009 i know i m a bit late to the party but there s this meme going around that cis is an insult and we shouldn t use it i think it s high time we admitted it cis is an insult that s right because by calling you cis we re calling you no better than a fucking tranny and that my friends is one of the worst insults we ve got in us culture we re calling you no more real than us and we re not real we re calling you no more a woman than us that you deserve no more respect than us and in your eyes that means tranny alert com that means ann coulter jokes that means it s fine for the general public to post videos of your genitals all over the internet with big purple arrows and random fetishizing speculations and fire you unless you show us photos of your genitals it s saying you can t apply makeup it s insulting your penis size and your manhood it s saying that the only difference between us is that you think you re better than us hell yeah it s an insult well that is so long as you re unwilling to give up on cis supremacy obviously i mean this in the un reclaimed insulting sense of the word also i d like to note that the op claims that phb commenters and bloggers would all stop calling trans people trans if we asked them to i call bullshit there s no way they would honor that they d make jokes about how ludicrous this request was posted by cedar filed in language politics privilege general transphobia uncategorized 12 comments say what you mean thinking critically about coercive gender language language politics august 11 2009 in response to objectivity authenticity my post about fe male bodied identified there was a lot of yes you re so right thank you and a lot of well what do i use instead not infrequently from the same people what do i use instead frustrates the hell out of me and is the reason i try not always succeeding and writing my language posts on topics rather than terms if you look at the language politics main page you ll have an idea of what i was hoping to get to most of the time i hear this objection it s worse than it was here but even so i was still pretty upset by it what you use instead you don t you say what you mean which is never fe male bodied bio boy or gg almost never xx chromosomed or born male and only rarely person with a penis vulva as mentioned in both objectivity and authenticity and biological please read before commenting if you haven t already cough jasper cough using these terms with some exceptions represents a reluctance to give up an entitlement granted by cissexual supremacy a categorization scheme that makes naming others easy and objecting to that naming impossible this entitlement is granted to everyone cis and trans alike it s just that trans and genderqueer people have more incentive to get it out of their heads than cissexual cisgender people do and we each have incentives to get different parts of it out and you know it s seductive it makes your life simpler and easier and your sentences shorter and it s violent there are some times when what you really mean is person with a penis if you re giving a workshop about cbt link nsfw that s what you mean it matters somewhat whether the bottom is a cis man trans man or trans woman but realistically you re talking about manipulating tissue bodies not how those bodies are socially positioned or perceived which is almost always what we re really talking about you re talking about a very specific part of the body not the body as a whole and that body may be cis trans and or intersex male female and or other however in the vast majority of cases centering the discussion on trans people s genitals is a objectifying and gross b reinscribing strengthening the dominant transphobic categorization scheme and c not actually what you mean language use is a practice not a you figured it out now you re done and with this issue you have to work at inspecting your own thoughts to see where transphobia s invaded and how to fix it so i m going to go through someone else s thoughts as written in 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