Women Born Transsexual

From:

http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2009/07/service_at_noon_to_remember_la.html

by John Mariani/The Post-Standard

Saturday July 11, 2009, 11:23 AM

Syracuse, NY — A memorial service will begin at noon at First English Lutheran Church for LaTeisha Green, whose shooting death on Nov. 14 is resulting in Onondaga County’s first prosecution of a hate-crime murder case.

The service also will include dance and song, and is to end with the release of doves and bubbles.

The church is at 501 James St., Syracuse.

The service takes place two days before Dwight DeLee, 20, is to stand trial in the case. Prosecutors say Green, a transgendered person, was targeted because of sexual orientation.

Gender Madness in American Psychiatry: Essay from the Struggle for Dignity by Kelley Winters Ph.D.

There was a time when the only books from women with transsexualism were biographical works.  Biographies and memoirs are an extremely valid way of putting our stories out there and humanizing our lives.  Indeed WBTs and MBTs are not the only people who have used this tool.  Other members of the LGB communities have as well.

The one short coming of such works is their tendency to focus on the teller of the personal story in a way that leaves the individual in almost a vacuum rather than as a part of a larger community.

For years the only books dealing with people with transsexualism as a demographic group have been normborns, usually male and usually with advanced degrees in the fields of medicine or psychiatry.

We get treated as ignorant, unknowing participants in our own lives.  I remember being told that it wasn’t possible for WBTs to speak or write objectively about transsexuals as a group.  Only outsiders were supposed to have that objectivity.

I have an extensive library on the matter of transsexualism as well as other LGB issues.  I have come to find the writings of normborns on the subject to be so bizarre and bigoted that when I read it I feel as though I am an African American reading the propaganda of the KKK or a Jewish person reading some extremely anti-Semetic tracts.

I can not help but see these writers as clueless.  Ms. Winter’s book gives me nearly 200 pages of reasons as to why I think these normborn misogynistic experts are no more than ignorant bigots who have written their faith based prejudice in pseudoscientific language.

She give us the tools we need when confronting the psych establishment.  Talking points that could be turned into a Power Point presentation.  She tells us what to say when the justifiable rage would otherwise reduce us to either sputtering or screaming.

Riki Wilchins was the first sister whose book actually attacked the multiple levels of transsexual and transgender oppression in a way I related too.

Since then there have been several books by a variety of authors including Viviane Namaste, Jay Prosser and several others, all offering us far more understanding of our lives than anything from non-trans people.   Ms Winters book has immediately moved to the top of my list of books ever WBTS or WBTG must read.  It well deserves a place on your book shelf next to Julia Serano’s Whipping Girl.

Any one who supports the removal of GID from the DSM must read this book.  Defenders of the GID diagnosis should read it too so they might learn the great harm their continuing support of the pathologization of people with transsexualism or transgenderism is doing to those women and men who have to deal with the effect of being labeled as mentaly ill.

As it is many of us find the fear of the stimatization results in silencing us and prevents us from speaking out against the abuse by a profession that has come to cause more harm than it corrects.

I highly recommend this book as a must read.  While You can go to Amazon you could also go to the following site and purchase it directly.

http://www.gendermadness.com/

From Advocate.com, USA

July 10, 2009

By Michelle Garcia

Two suspects have been arraigned on assault charges after allegedly attacking a transgender woman in Queens, N.Y., on Wednesday.

Nathaniel Mims, 25, and Rasheed Thomas, 22, are charged with attacking Carmella Etienne, 22, in St. Albans, a neighborhood in Queens. According to police, the two hurled bigoted slurs and threatened to slash her throat as they pelted her with rocks and beer bottles.

Etienne said the attackers told her that the police didn’t care about her and that they were immune to any force. They were eventually arrested at the scene, according to NY1, where Thomas said he was unaware that he and his friend “could get locked up for calling somebody names.”

“I called her a bunch of names,” he said, according to the New York Daily News. “I called her a [expletive deleted], but she didn’t see me throw anything.”

Etienne was treated at a local hospital for a large cut and later released.

The men are being held on $5,000 bail and are due back in court on July 23. They face up to 15 years in prison for the attack.

Another transgender woman was attacked about a month ago in Jackson Heights, a northwest neighborhood in Queens.

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http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid97397.asp

I consider The Second Sex to be one of those books every woman should plow through at least once in her life.  It definately should be mandatory for T to F people even though it is dated and the English translation is considered to be a poor one.

De Beauvoir highlights much of the development of misogyny and the role of women as inferior to men and in doing so manages hit on ideas that are basic to understanding both what has been called transphobia and the foundation of the pathologizing  wing of psychiatry.

I’ve long said that a field that owes so much to Sigmund Freud, a man who as a child, prayed, “Thank you god, for not creating me a woman.” was bound to grow up a misogynist.  After all male supremacy is god ordained so how could he not be overly enchanted with his having a penis that was at once symbol and source of supremacy.

It all flows down hill from there.  I mean isn’t most of the pathologizing of people with transsexualism directed at T to F based on the following line of thinking?

From The Second Sex pg 161 ff

It is a question whether the horror inspired in man by woman comes from that inspired by sexuality in general, or vice versa.  It is noteworthy that, in Leviticus particularly, nocternal emission is regarded as a defilement, though woman is not concerned in it.  And in our modern societies masturbation is popularly regarded as a danger and a sin:many children and young people who are addicts practice it ony with horrible fear and anguish.  It is interference of society and particularly of parents that make a vice of solitary pleasure; but more than one young boy has been spontaniously by his ejaculations: blood or semen, any flowing away of his own substance seems to him disquieting; it is his life, his mana that is escaping .  However, even, even if a man can subjectively can subjectively go through erotic experiences without a woman present, she is objectively implied in his sexuality: as Plato says in the myth of the Androgynes, thew organism of the male supposes that of the female.  Man discovers woman in discovering his own sex, even if she is present neither in flesh and blood nor in imagery, and inversely it is in so far as she incarnates sexuality that woman is redoubtable.  We can never separate the immanent and the transcendent aspects of living experience: what I fear or desire is always an embodiment of my own exestence, but nothing happens to me except it comes through what is not me. The non-ego is implied in nocturnal emissions, in erections, if not definately under control in the form of a woman, at least as Nature and life the individual feels himself to be possessed by a magic not of himself.

Indeed, the ambivalence of his feelings towards women reappears in his attitude towards his own sex organ: he is proud of it, he laughs at it, he is ashamed of it.  The little boy challenges comparison of his penis with those of his comrades: his first erection fills him with pride and fear at once.  The grown man regards his organ as a symbol of transcendence and power; it pleases his vanity like a voluntary muscle and at the same time a magical gift: it is liberty rich in all the contingency of the fact freely wished; it is under this contradictory aspect aspect that he is enchanted with it, but he is suspicious of deception.  That organ by which the thought to assert himself does not obey him; heavy with unsatisfied desires, unexpectedly becoming erect, sometimes relieving itself during sleep, it manifests a suspect and capricious vitality. Man aspires to make Spirit triumph over Life, action over passivity; his consciousness keeps nature at a distance, his will shapes her, but in his sex organ he finds himself again beset with life, nature, and passivity.`

Wow…  No wonder the psychiatric dicks can’t imagine why some one would give up something that implies all that in order to be female, a mere receptacle for some man’s magical sex toy.

But of course if a person were to do as the memorable phrase from one of the books I have read so succinctly , “Do the unspeakable to his unmentionables>” the only possible reasom would be in order to provide a warm wet hole for a man to ejaculate into.

These dicks can only see through their penises and it colors every single bit of their pathologizing of T to F people.