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Work 4 Peace,Hold All Life Sacred,Eliminate Violence! I am on my mobile version of the door-to-door, going town-to-town holding readings/gatherings/discussions of my book "But What Can I Do?" This is my often neglected blog mostly about my travels since 9/11 as I engage in dialogue and actions. It is steaming with my opinions, insights, analyses toward that end of holding all life sacred, dismantling the empire and eliminating violence while creating the society we want ALL to thrive in

Friday, May 15, 2015

Fuck transdominant transgenderism



Transphobic and proud!

Or should I call this “Fuck transdominant transgenderism”

If transphobic means I harbor any kind of prejudice, emotional disgust, fear, anger or discomfort felt or expressed towards trans people, then hell no, I’m not transphobic.

If transphobic means I promote, encourage, condone any form of violence, harassment, or discrimination against trans people, then hell no, I’m not transphobic.

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 prioritize protecting girls and womyn from males, male dominance, including males who want to claim for themselves society’s gender box created to oppress females i.e. male-to-trans folks, then call me transphobic & proud!

If transphobic means I dare to express my opinion about the tragic mutilations of your sacred body, the cutting off your beautiful breasts while I fight for individual 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, disappeared, clumped into the category of “queer” because my Lesbian or radical feminist or female/womon 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, feminist-attacking, then call me transphobic and proud!

If transphobic means I will not deny or diminish but hold to the highest value our ability to choose to create and sustain life – or not – as the keystone of womyn, then call me transphobic and proud!

If transphobic means I identify and deflect bullying, male dominance, superiority behaviors, internalized misogyny, radical feminist lesbophobia, 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 or minimize the power and sacred 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 to the highest degree of “womyn” 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 internalized impact of the patriarchal 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, my thousands-of-nerve-beginnings-clit, 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 transgender dominant claim that sex is not biological and then gender challenging people rush to attempt 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 personal 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 who have survived girlhood, who are striving to love womyn (especially their own 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 those freedoms for all womyn and girls, then call me transphobic and proud!

If transphobic means I dare you to change the definitions, the boxes, the limits a racist, misogynist society puts on race & sex rather than accepting those definitions and changing your body accordingly to sync with society’s gender box  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 all womyn but instead seek for the individual 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 beginning life as a girl 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 the dominant 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 and proud.

If transphobic means I know unwanted male attention from the annoying to the dangerous and violent, yet vehemently deny the answer is to bind or 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 of womyn to include trans folks, then call me transphobic and proud!

If transphobic means the knowledge that if you are born female you are not a transman but a female to trans person, or those born male are not a transwoman but a male to transperson, if I refuse to pretend you are a “woman” but accept you as a transgendered person, then call me transphobic and proud!

If transphobic means knowing you will NEVER be a woman when you are biologically a male no matter how many operations you have or drugs you take, or you will NEVER be a man when you are biologically a female no matter how many operations you pay for or drugs you take, then call me transphobic and proud.

If transphobic means, even in this consumer-based society where everything is for sale, an individual cannot buy a body of the opposite sex, then call me transphobic and proud.

If transphobic means my experience, wisdom, power, knowledge gained from spending at least 45 years of my life identifying, studying, engaging with hundreds if not thousands of womyn, creating, building, empowering myself and all womyn as we challenge sexism, misogyny, patriarchy that all womyn face, as well as the internalizing of this oppression trumps the infant transgenderism  - that I believe my wisdom, experience, and knowledge should be much much much more valued and embraced then the experience of males who want to jump out of their gender box and into the gender box the racist, sexist, misogynist dominant society created, built, sustains for womyn, then call me transphobic and proud.

Get off my back, you trans-dominant, transgender, transdomineering folks and take responsibility for your own choices, build your own communities, find your own acceptance – and leave me to mine.