Get on with it
I won’t presume to speak for anyone else’s experience, but my own is that those transwomen of my acquaintance who are not completely hung up about the whole “transgender” thing are those who turn out to be the best-equipped to get past it, and who are also the most ethically-inclined toward, you know, real women’s issues.
We’re trans. It is what it is, and in the long run merits neither tortuous navel-gazing nor incendiary proclamation nor righteous denouncement.
Be trans, be real, and get on with it.
Welcome back, Val.
In spite of our differences, I’ve always enjoyed your perspective.
fuck aye.
i’ve been going through a ‘i can’t believe people get so wound up about this’ phase recently, at all sides, and marvelling at the investment that both detractors and otherwise put into their (hot air) arguments. then i wonder at my own investment at being so boggled by it all. le gah.
i need to pack a rucksack. i’ve got this awesome mattress that self-inflates and it’s about the size of a carrymat and it’s dead comfy. i was annoyed in the shop though, because there was a ‘women’s’ version, in feminine! colours, that cost over twice as much (as was hardly any bigger, or thicker, or anything, apart from being a nice pastel blue). sure, the annoyance over this is trite, but come *on*.