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ight terminology and the process is fundamentally one that has to be self driven in some ways this understanding of what knowledge cis people lack is deeply dispiriting while it takes the onus off trans people to educate cis people it also implies that much of what cis people need to learn we can t teach them or pressure them to learn that they can only learn through a painful process of introspection few are motivated enough to attempt and which it s incredibly difficult impossible to hold individuals accountable for whether or not they do it s also dispiriting in that if ending transphobia depends on skills that are devalued as feminine and are deliberately undermined by capitalism and advertising it makes the project that much more daunting but i think it s the reality we have to live with and strategize in up next part 4 transphobia as authoritative knowledge claims posted by cedar filed in institutional transphobia language politics misogyny nos sexualization sexualization objectification trans misogyny transphobia 7 comments combatting combatting ignorance part 2 how could you have known you already did february 6 2010 this is the second in a three four part series the first is available here and the third here i ll link to the fourth once it s up so last time i talked about the ways that using the concept of ignorance furthers racism classism colonialism etc and misdirects us away from the bigger issues this time i want to talk more about how the discourse of ignorance serves to let people off the hook once their transphobia has been called out last time we established that some people are culturally pre defined stereotyped as ignorant and others as knowledgeable for those labeled ignorant with a broad brush it s a moral failing a character flaw a mark of deficiency and a legitimation to dominate them backwards illiterate primitive brutish hillbilly uncivilized etc for them then using the concept of ignorance doesn t get them off the hook doesn t forgive their actions doesn t make them seem ok just bigoted if their transphobia is rooted in ignorance it becomes simply one more justification for marginalizing them however for those defined as knowers and those one is otherwise unwilling to dismiss e g family those who have no risk of being demonized as ignorant and stupid the story is very different can you imagine the following being written about some hick who harassed you the other day or the teenager who said that s a dude about me last weekend there is nothing to forgive when someone does not understand what they are saying if i m right that s an example of transignorance the assumption that despite my statements i am female because that s what they always thought and that therefore i should feel the same toward my body as they do about theirs consider the ratio of folks whose sex and gender do not match and it s a reasonable assumption just incorrect so while ignorance as a systemic trait is despicable ignorance in this one area is a ok because it s non essential knowledge knowledge you couldn t possibly expect everyone to have already or find on their own obviously this ties into it s your job to educate us which brings me to the absurd example that drove me to finally write these posts that have been bouncing around in my brain since before i even started this blog as y all may remember i m in a women s and gender studies graduate program this term i ve related trans issues and or being trans to the issues at hand almost every week the very first week of class i mentioned how i hated the discourse of non binary gender that goes man woman transgender instead of man woman cis trans i was talking to a classmate about something outside of class and when i mentioned something that said i was trans she said i thought you were a woman yuh huh her justification that she didn t know the discourse she told me that she was offended that i characterized her words as transphobic because she wasn t phobic just didn t know the lingo she just didn t know yuh huh in an unrelated incident i d been working at retail establishment for five or six months a co worker in another department had gotten my pronoun right all this time seen other people get my pronoun right all this time and thought nothing of using she until after five months he found out i was trans and called me he to a customer when i confronted him he didn t know what i wanted to be called riiiiiiight they both knew and they both had the tools to find out if they really didn t know if they d wanted to but see once you re in the position to not be labeled ignorant not knowing trans things is perfectly innocent it s totally optional because any hurt you inflict in the mean time a isn t important and b will be washed away by the magic of intent except it s not innocent i would actually go further than queen emily when she says the one thing ignorance is not is innocent it is about having the power not to know and not to care and we simply can t afford to be naive enough to think otherwise it s actually the power to know and not care there s a widespread trope that trans people are super rare and new that most people have never heard of us and thus can t know what to say and of course y ou can t blame people for not knowing about something that they might never have encountered but here s the thing they have i don t care that you ve never met a trans person before i don t care that you ve never had a women s studies course before i don t care that you ve never had a trans 101 you can find out what we want to be called from the worst transphobic screeds and jokes making fun of trans people is a widespread cultural trope it s not something you ve never heard of warning transphobia abounds in this section skip past the quotes if you need to yes there we go again cis people making fun of the dumbed down explanation we made for them as though it was the depth of our thought woman trapped in a man s body hur hur hur but you know what you know that person who says that to use language i hate identifies as a woman and you know that invalidating someone s self concept isn t nice even paul scott knows what we want to be called and knows that he s invalidating our identities and even from him you can figure it out it s a social values issue if you are born a male you should be known as a male same as with a female she should be known as a female he said he said his mandate would be in place even for those who had completely undergone sex reassignment surgeries that s who you are you can have cosmetic surgery or reassignment surgery but you are still that gender he said the clear implication that we disagree there s no other way this makes any sense and as zoe brain notes in the comments on this article scroll down because he s not just ignorant it s not that he hasn t been told about intersex conditions comments have been made on his blog by biologists and medics which he s deleted so they don t get seen e mails from scientists and educators on this area have been sent he ignores them he just needs a scapegoat to demonise and this group is perfect for the job or take this transphobic blog post two decades ago chastity bono the daughter of sonny and cher announced to the world that she was a lesbian but last week she announced that she was no longer a lesbian but a man and would undergo surgery to change her female parts to male parts apparently chastity s gender confusion has confused her and now she realizes that she has been living a lie she wasn t really a lesbian but a sonny trapped in a cher s body so after a little plastic surgery a shave and a haircut chastity will no longer be chastity the lesbian but chaz the artificial man the gender experts tell us it is perfectly normal and that anyone who would question it is not normal but hateful judgmental and intolerant could it be any more clear what chaz wants to be called could it be any more clear that richman like scott is familiar with the lingo and if right wingers like these know what we want to be called and if even five minutes listening to them will tell you what we want to be called then you knew too you may not know the ontology behind our claims to reality you may not know what the word ontology means you may not know our critique of the sex gender distinction or of biology but you know how we see ourselves you know that implying we re not really women men is offensive and thus that claiming to be more real in any of the myriad ways that cis people do this is offensive 1 at some point almost all of you made a conscious choice to disrespect us misgendering and ungendering 1 transsexual folks has nothing to do with terminology and everything to do with expressing contempt towards us and superiority over us no matter how strongly one denies it since you ve seen us ridiculed and objectified all over the place and there s easy internet access you ve had the prompt to go check on how to be respectful and the means to do so and clearly my readers you have chosen to do so but i suspect that most of you like me and like the country at large had a long history of acting dismissive and superior before you did so trans education so often focuses on glossaries and definitions a lot of cis people are hungry to know the right language but they want it not because they don t actually know the terms or couldn t look them up quickly and painlessly but because they want to be able to pass themselves off as not transphobic without doing any of the soul searching that would reveal their transphobia to them they want to look not transphobic whether because it has social value or because it makes them feel better about themselves or maybe even because they don t want to hurt people to be tolerant but they have no desire to decenter themselves lose their ontological privilege and eradicate transphobia inside themselves and in society framing the issue as ignorance has allowed cis people to ask for more glossaries more definitions more trans 101 and to silence challenge and accountability it s played along with privileged cis people s delusions of innocence it s let them get away with their history of complicity at the same time that it has justified their sense of superiority over other oppressed groups it s kept up the demand to tell our stories and tell them depoliticized it s heaped cis people s work onto trans people and it condones cis people s ongoing transphobic acts even when they clearly knew better it s time for a new frame up next part 3 cis denial self knowledge and sexist epistemology part 4 transphobia as authoritative knowledge claims 1 edit 3 30 cst edit 2 24 10 to account for addition of a fourth part to series posted by cedar filed in institutional transphobia language politics media analysis privilege general racism transphobia 12 comments combatting combatting ignorance part 1 whose ignorance who s ignorant february 5 2010 this is the first in a three four part series the second is here and the third here when the fourth is posted and written i ll link it here ignorance it s one of the most commonly cited roots of homophobia and transphobia and other prejudices isms stigmas as well but what does it mean that this ending ignorance is our battle cry ignorance calls up two images the first image is of homophobia and transphobia hate bigotry etc the one intentionally referenced by hrc ngltf glaad et al ok but what about the other image or other part of the image raised by the word of the uneducated elderly rural or working class poor people of color or to use the busted racist and classist logic of the image white trash fox news watching red staters or people from the third world who need to be civilized to again use the logic of the image huh what about that these are of course the people hegemonic liberal discourse teaches us to assume are homophobic transphobic racist etc not health insurance executives doctors therapists the police women s studies phd s queer theorists anthropologists biologists journalists cis lgb folks or to be us centric policy wonks writing the real id act the fda the social security administration the state department in charge of passports etc not the people with a lot of knowledge education and power that is to say not the people in charge not the good people not oh say you i ll be honest the people who transphobically harass me on the street are by an overwhelming margin young cis black men culturally pre defined as ignorant i m not making that up i can give you numbers if i have to but the people who ve harassed me at work the people who ve trans bashed me and the people who ve groped me because i m trans and female not those who presume i m cis are all white and cis to a person not all male not all straight of varied educational class and regional backgrounds but all white and that s not representative of the demographics where i ve worked any number of people from my educational institution have said highly transphobic shit to me or in my hearing that is all highly educated socially pre defined as knowledgeable generally middle upper class and who does that is not strongly distributed by race age or whether they re prof or student but the people who make the decisions and form the arguments that fuck with my life the most have a disproportionate amount of privilege education and power targeting the ones that get culturally pre defined as ignorant might be tempting because their offenses are frequently the most highly visible and relatedly least culturally sanctioned but it s those culturally pre defined as knowledgeable that do me the most damage and thus through a privilege power rubric are most transphobic who s worse the most ignorant redneck supposedly embodying every awful anti rural stereotype or j michael bailey who has a phd and sits in the halls of knowledge so when we construe transphobia as about ignorance not only have we engaged with classism racism and colonialism we ve shot ourselves in the foot and let the worst offenders off the hook up next part 2 how could you have known you already did part 3 cis denial self knowledge and sexist epistemology part 4 transphobia as authoritative knowledge claims interestingly ncte seems to mostly eschew the use of this word a google site search turned up only 5 results compared to 94 for hrc 96 for ngltf and 46 from glaad good for them my program is so overwhelmingly female that an accounting by gender is impossible the majority of the comments come from cis women but that s who s in the program edit 2 24 10 to account for addition of a fourth part to series posted by cedar filed in clgb activism institutional trans misogyny institutional transphobia language politics privilege general racism trans misogyny transphobia violence 11 comments missing the point miley cyrus sexualization and hyperscrutiny january 5 2010 so i m a little late to the party because i don t keep up with celebrity news gossip whatever or miley 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