on being gwyneth

the original title of this piece was going to be “wbt smackdown.” its opening was to be something like this:

for the most part, i actually accept that a person’s identity is exactly what they say it is. so i’m inclined to view the personal claims of those who adopt the term “woman born transsexual” as both legitimate and authentic. but i also believe that the “wbt” political doctrine and the social boundary conditions it seeks to enforce are a regressive, vicious fraud.
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i will, for now, keep this brief.

all of this nonsense about different “kinds” of transsexuals? these ersatz typologies and false dichotomies and theoretical taxonomies and bitter divisions over stealth and out, passing and not, young and old, medical and psychological models, AGP and inherent gender and on and on and on…?

it’s all bullshit. it’s all a stand-in for class struggle. it has nothing whatever to do with identity. it’s power politics, pure and simple.

as a palliative to the toxicity of the prior entry, i offer this essay of reason and compassion by Christine Burns of PFC-UK (who prefaced and forwarded the McHugh article). i have taken the liberty to emphasize in bold text those passages i find particularly relevant to my own concerns.

the sheer *sanity* of UK-PFC’s approach to trans-rights continues to astound me, in comparison to the flailing cacophony from this side of the pond.
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