Or should I call this “Fuck transdominant”
If transphobic means I dare call myself a Lesbian, a Dyke, a
Bulldagger and proud, then call me transphobic and proud!
If transphobic means I dare to express my opinion about the
tragic cutting off your beautiful breasts while I fight for your right to do
whatever the hell you want to do with your body, then call me transphobic and
proud!
If transphobic means I refuse to be subjugated, clumped into
the category of “queer” because my Lesbian identity makes trans folks &
their allies feel ‘oppressed’, then call me transphobic and proud!
If transphobic means I strive for the difficult dialogue and
I refuse to be silenced by the threat of being labeled “transphobic”, then call
me transphobic and proud!
If transphobic means I refuse to have my words shoved back
down my throat because I am excluding someone who demands I include them, then
call me transphobic and proud!
If transphobic means I call out internalized misogyny, woman-hating,
lesbian-bashing, then call me transphobic and proud!
If transphobic means I will not deny or diminish our ability
to choose to create and sustain life – or not – as the cornerstone of womyn,
then call me transphobic and proud!
If transphobic means I identify and deflect bullying, male
dominance, superiority behaviors, internalize misogyny, then call me
transphobic and proud!
If transphobic means I decide who I gather with, who I make love
with, who I invite to organize with, to struggle with, to dance and fight with,
then call me transphobic and proud!
If transphobic means I refuse to ignore the power and wonder
of my body, to eliminate my cunt, to cut my bleeding from my identity, to know
of what this means to be a womon, then call me transphobic and proud!
If transphobic means I honor the power to create life,
should I choose, the power to give life, should I want to, the power to sustain
life and protect life, then call me transphobic and proud!
If transphobic means I refuse to ignore or deny the external
and internal impact of the conditioning along with the privileges/oppression or
lack of, since swaddled in pink or blue, then call me transphobic and proud!
If transphobic means I refuse to pretend alls it takes to be
a womon is cutting off one’s dick and painting your fingernails, then call me
transphobic and proud!
If transphobic means I joyfully embrace the power, the
sacredness of my cunt, my womb, bleeding from my identity, my breasts, my wide
hips, then call me transphobic and proud!
If transphobic means I refuse to silently swallow the fact
hatred of a womon’s body is such a carefully force-fed given in our society, so
much that 77% of 17 year old young womyn HATE their bodies, then call me
transphobic and proud!
If transphobic means I challenge the hypocrisy of the gender
dominant claim that gender is not biological and then gender challenging people
rush to biologically change their bodies, then call me transphobic and proud.
If transphobic means I choose not spend my energy making
transpeople feel accepted, comfortable, okay with their own decisions, then
call me transphobic and proud!
If transphobic means I stand with the 1 in 4 or 5 womyn who
are desperately fighting to save their sacred breasts and call on all womyn to
stand in solidarity protecting our breasts, then call me transphobic and proud!
If transphobic means I claim the right to gather with
womyn-born-womyn who love womyn (especially their own womon-born-womon selves),
then call me transphobic and proud!
If transphobic means I block your society- & god-given male
access to womyn, with or without your dick, then call me transphobic and proud!
If transphobic means I challenge your stuck-in-pubescence desire
to have the freedom, superiority, importance boys have as you translate that
into becoming boys instead of fighting for freedom for womyn and girls, then
call me transphobic and proud!
If transphobic means I dare you to change the definitions,
the boxes, the limits society puts on gender rather then accepting those
definitions and changing your body accordingly to sync with society’s limits,
then call me transphobic and proud!
If transphobic means I clearly see the misogyny and call out
your cowardice in refusing to fight to smash the societal boxes that imprison
womyn but instead seek the power and privilege bestowed on male bodies in that
other box, then call me transphobic and proud!
If transphobic means I urge you to really embrace, identify,
love everything it means to be a womon born womon while you honestly face and
rip out the inferiority, the self-hatred, the threads of oppression carefully
taught and woven into us since before birth, then call me transphobic and
proud!
If transphobic means I want to know how you’ve conquered
your internalizing of society’s massive hatred and fear of womyn-loving-womyn
(and men-loving-men) as you refuse to be a womon-loving-womon in the world but
instead strive to be a man-loving-woman in the world, then call me transphobic.
If transphobic means I know unwanted male attention from the
annoying to the dangerous, yet vehemently deny the answer is to cut off your
precious breasts but to liberate yourself as you love and cherish your precious
breasts, then call me transphobic and proud!
If transphobic means I stand against reducing womyn to baby
makers and sexual objects while coming out the other end and fiercely loving
our ability to create life and bring pleasure with our bodies, then call me
transphobic and proud!
If transphobic means I refuse to make room in my special community
to include trans folks, then call me transphobic and proud!
Get off my back, you transdominant, transgender,
transdomineering folks and take responsibility for your own choices and leave
me to mine.
3 Comments:
At 1/9/13 10:03 PM, Anonymous said…
I love you Xan for all the great anti-war work you do and for being who you are. But I couldn't disagree more with your many conceptions of what transphobia "means" and, by implication, what being trans necessarily means. Not everyone is trans because they are attached to certain gender roles; not all trans people are hetero post-op; and your many assumptions, negative generalizations and judgmental stereotypes about trans people make clear that you are quite transphobic. Using the term "transdominant" does not actually bestow power or dominance to one of the most vulnerable and oppressed classes of people on earth. I also wonder why you resent being called transphobic when you so overtly and adamently oppose transgenderism. Of course you have every right to express your opinion, and so do the people who think your opinions are transphobic. I am one of those people who thinks you are clearly transphobic, but I love you anyway.
-DK
At 2/9/13 4:12 PM, Anonymous said…
Can
U r the exact type of person u claim to hate. I doubt the trans pple u rail against would even take the time to read ur rant.
At 2/1/14 12:26 PM, Chris said…
The words are woman and women. How can you be a feminist if you hate the very word "woman"?
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