Cissexism
As humans, it seems that we have a continuous need for labels. In some ways, we’d all be so much better off without them, but until human psychology goes through some major changes, I don’t think that’s going to happen! The ‘cis’ vs. ‘trans’ issue has had people wound up for years now and by [...]
I love the BBC programme called QI. It has all the things I love in a TV programme: Great comedy, interesting subjects and Stephen Fry! Last night, it returned to BBC 1 and I naturally watched it and, as usual, it was fun, it was interesting and it pushed the barriers a bit, this time [...]
Continue reading about QI showing low IQ when it comes to trans women
This article by CNN talks about how the Indian election system has been changed to allow intersexed people, eunuchs and trans people the right to choose ‘other’ as a gender. I don’t know enough about the Indian trans/intersexed/eunuch communities to say whether this is a major step forward or not (my assumption from my reading [...]
Helen Boyd’s recent post on (en)Gender (“Jeez Louise this cisgendered nonsese”) got me thinking. I think it got a lot of trans people thinking. I can understand a lot of her objections to the term and to the way it has been used, but I think there’s a key problem with anyone objecting to the [...]
Continue reading about Jeez Louise! Yet another cis person dislikes ‘cis’
When I hear the shocked hysteria about the gay/lesbian/trans lifestyle, it always raises a giggle. I love it when the conservatives use these phrases because it shows how isolated and myopic they are. You see, there is a gay/lesbian/trans lifestyle, but the only reason for that is because the hetero and cis communities create an [...]
For some reason, certain cis people are convinced that letting people use the toilet which matches their gender is going to end up with a rash of hideously horrible behaviour, flashing and violent sexual activity. In both the US and the UK, this is a big issue at the moment and it is getting a [...]