I went to Penguincon over the weekend close to where I live. It wasn't as good as the first year I went, but it was good nonetheless. I attended a panel called How To Respect Your Transgender Peers.
The panel sucked. What it should have been titled was Intro to Transgender 101 or something. Panels are only 50 minutes long. There are some panel hosts who will reserve back to back blocks to increase time, or split a panel into basic topics, intermediate topics and advanced topics on whatever subject it is. But I felt mislead. I was expecting a panel entirely on how to respect your transgender peers. What I got instead was about 35 minutes on This is what transgender is, and the last twenty minutes were six questions all based around those who are not Transgender and how they should respect those who are.
I really wanted to ask a question about internal to the Transgender community about those who are transgender disrespecting fellow trans persons. That's the biggest problem I have. I have had more problems with fellow trans saying stupid and or mean things to me than with non-trans. But I couldn't get the chance so I was dissapointed overall in that panel.
I also tried to make a clarifying remark on one of the things said, but I don't think I got all the words out and I was misunderstood so everyone looked at me like I said something innapropriate and the host came back with a statement giving an example of how I was wrong, but I agreed with everything she said except for one point which I felt she didn't say enough on.
Such is my life with aspergers, transgender, and interacting with others.
05 May 2014, 6:50 am
