Eh? What is "GenderTrender" actually saying in the post? This - "What would it take to resolve the great divide between the practice of genderism (“Transgender”) and the liberation of women (“Feminism”)?"? Is she (?) arguing that the existence of transgendered individuals opposes the liberation of women?
Those who hold such a position evidently consider the body to be of no importance. In which case, they should be willing to sign a document stating that, assuming the funds are gathered to pay for them to undergo so-called "gender reassignment", they will have no objection to it being done, due to their newly masculinised body being irrelevant to their womanhood, and any lingering doubts about that are merely the effects of patriarchy.
In much the same vein, I also wish for anyone who considers an individuals gender to be solely determined by their chromosomes to sign a document stating that, and binding themselves to recognise any individual who has had their chromosomes modified to match those of the opposite sex to have legitimately changed genders.
Now, I know that most people aren't trained in the stick-your-neck-out-and-make-a-prediction rules of Muggle science, but...
30 Sep 2013, 4:00 am
