Comments on: Girls who are boys Who like boys to be girls http://whippersnapper.wordpress.com/2008/03/18/girls-who-are-boys-who-like-boys-to-be-girls/ Wed, 23 Dec 2009 04:11:39 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: jogo http://whippersnapper.wordpress.com/2008/03/18/girls-who-are-boys-who-like-boys-to-be-girls/#comment-6625 jogo Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:48:14 +0000 http://whippersnapper.wordpress.com/?p=1136#comment-6625 All this theory and kerfuffle over a few transboys? How many can there be of this bizarre ilk? Don't believe the trans-advocates; they'll tell you that there are millions of transboys, and therefore this is a huge problem. Nonsense. There are hardly any. Think about it -- who but insane people would have a penis grafted onto them rather than deal courageously and originally with their complex exisitential/mythic/psychological situation? Obviously not everyone has a complex mythic situation. Maybe some believe that people with complex situations are a new variety of "the oppressed." Or maybe he thinks everyone should be "happy" all the time, and if one isn't happy there's something wrong. I think it's quite appalling that teenagers are being influenced by sinister theoreticians to have their cunts and penises cut off. As for "non-conforming" ... whatever has happened to common sense? Surely a person can learn to put boundaries around his complexities. "Letting it all hang out" is, I have found, a poor dictum for living one's life. Are any transboys reading this blog? To them I say: NO NO NO, transboys. Do NOT let it all hang out. Please "conform" at least to the extent of not freaking people out in men's or women's restrooms. Do not hold Smith and Mount Holyoke hostage to your personal anguish, making, as it were, a fucking huge political and theoretical mountain out of your little mons veneris. The world does not revolve around you and your pussy (or whatever it is). All this theory and kerfuffle over a few transboys? How many can there be of this bizarre ilk? Don’t believe the trans-advocates; they’ll tell you that there are millions of transboys, and therefore this is a huge problem. Nonsense. There are hardly any. Think about it — who but insane people would have a penis grafted onto them rather than deal courageously and originally with their complex exisitential/mythic/psychological situation?

Obviously not everyone has a complex mythic situation. Maybe some believe that people with complex situations are a new variety of “the oppressed.” Or maybe he thinks everyone should be “happy” all the time, and if one isn’t happy there’s something wrong.

I think it’s quite appalling that teenagers are being influenced by sinister theoreticians to have their cunts and penises cut off. As for “non-conforming” … whatever has happened to common sense? Surely a person can learn to put boundaries around his complexities. “Letting it all hang out” is, I have found, a poor dictum for living one’s life.

Are any transboys reading this blog? To them I say: NO NO NO, transboys. Do NOT let it all hang out. Please “conform” at least to the extent of not freaking people out in men’s or women’s restrooms. Do not hold Smith and Mount Holyoke hostage to your personal anguish, making, as it were, a fucking huge political and theoretical mountain out of your little mons veneris. The world does not revolve around you and your pussy (or whatever it is).

]]> By: Steven http://whippersnapper.wordpress.com/2008/03/18/girls-who-are-boys-who-like-boys-to-be-girls/#comment-6623 Steven Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:30:27 +0000 http://whippersnapper.wordpress.com/?p=1136#comment-6623 Add in to the mix the place of transfemales who want to attend women's colleges. The prevailing norm seems to be that transmen <em>should</em> be able to attend because they were born legally female, whereas transfemales who were born legally male should not. Even people who accept the idea of transmen at women's colleges seem to be torn on the question. I've taken about five classes each at Smith and Mount Holyoke and it's definitely a complicated issue for people there. I think Smith made its Constitution gender neutral a decade or so ago, which of course seems a little bizarre for a women's college. I don't have an issue with it and think your basic point that colleges <em>in general</em> should be safer and more welcoming places for trans students is the best response. But given the current situation where women's colleges seem to operate as safe havens for trans students, it does at least throw into question what the purpose and role of a women's college is in the twenty-first century. Add in to the mix the place of transfemales who want to attend women’s colleges. The prevailing norm seems to be that transmen should be able to attend because they were born legally female, whereas transfemales who were born legally male should not. Even people who accept the idea of transmen at women’s colleges seem to be torn on the question.

I’ve taken about five classes each at Smith and Mount Holyoke and it’s definitely a complicated issue for people there. I think Smith made its Constitution gender neutral a decade or so ago, which of course seems a little bizarre for a women’s college.

I don’t have an issue with it and think your basic point that colleges in general should be safer and more welcoming places for trans students is the best response. But given the current situation where women’s colleges seem to operate as safe havens for trans students, it does at least throw into question what the purpose and role of a women’s college is in the twenty-first century.

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