One of the many problems with formulating trans rights is that trans people are such a heterogenous group. Just taking transwomen, you've got HSTS, AGP, Prison-Onset-Gender-Dysphoria, post-op, pre-op, entirely non-medicalised, and that's before you get to the Philip-but-Pippa-on-Wednesdayses. If gender studies departments just focus on a…
One of the many problems with formulating trans rights is that trans people are such a heterogenous group. Just taking transwomen, you've got HSTS, AGP, Prison-Onset-Gender-Dysphoria, post-op, pre-op, entirely non-medicalised, and that's before you get to the Philip-but-Pippa-on-Wednesdayses. If gender studies departments just focus on a taxonomy of trans identities and do nothing else (no really - NOTHING else) for the next few decades, I think that will be time well spent. Or at least better spent than the decades spent dismantling women's rights and driving the entire academic, political and NGO world mad.
This! The heterogeneous nature of anything should be called out when any one person attempts to represent a whole group or conversely(?) when others use one individual to represent the whole. Nobody can represent all of us (or them).
One of the many problems with formulating trans rights is that trans people are such a heterogenous group. Just taking transwomen, you've got HSTS, AGP, Prison-Onset-Gender-Dysphoria, post-op, pre-op, entirely non-medicalised, and that's before you get to the Philip-but-Pippa-on-Wednesdayses. If gender studies departments just focus on a taxonomy of trans identities and do nothing else (no really - NOTHING else) for the next few decades, I think that will be time well spent. Or at least better spent than the decades spent dismantling women's rights and driving the entire academic, political and NGO world mad.
This! The heterogeneous nature of anything should be called out when any one person attempts to represent a whole group or conversely(?) when others use one individual to represent the whole. Nobody can represent all of us (or them).