I just read this (May 2006) post by Amananta.
It is a balanced account of the hostility between transfolk and radical feminists (more balanced than I could manage from my own privileged position of self-confidence), an exploration of the reason of things.
Comments are closed over there so I’m saying right here - thanks for this Amananta. I don’t agree with every word and after the recent furore right here on my own blog I’m not going to go into any deep analysis - but this is good and valuable. Thank you.
19 March 2008 at 8:23 am
Wow, I really like that post, it covered both sides. It’s that old thing of pitting women against each other to distract us from what’s really going on thing again isn’t it?
19 March 2008 at 8:24 am
I will call regarding potatoes
19 March 2008 at 5:23 pm
hi, i read that post you linked to the other night, and i read your previous post on the subject (and the ensuing craziness in the comments) the other day. obviously i’m quite intrested in this, being a woman who is also trans, and i just want to say two things.
i don’t agree with everything in amanatas post, or yours, but it is one hell of a breath of fresh air, for me, to read them. thank you very much for being empathically honest and for being open to talking about this subject. speaking for myself, it really is appreciated.
secondly, when i read amanata’s post the thing that struck me the most, more than what i perceived to be some errors in her thinking surrounding trans-people, is how she wrote of the frustration of being attacked by everyone for saying what she did. i don’t believe this is an issue that’s going to be resolved overnight, but the important thing was she, like you, attempted to set the scene for a resolution. the hostility she apparantly then endured, from both sides, sorta proves the entire and eventual point of why resolution is needed in the first place. at least from my point of view.
um, i’m going on a bit more than i planned, but to finish off maybe at some point it’d be fun to passionatly debate some points, but in the meantime there is more important things to do like, uh, growing stuff
thanks again xx
21 March 2008 at 7:39 am
Sorry you got caught in the crossfire, Maia. It appears to be an occupational hazard of anyone who raises the issue of TS (in)tolerance.