I do have a pet peeve about groups trying to force their identity norms on people of their own group.
I'm not mad. But since you want to learn, learn to check your cisprivilege too. :) That includes saying
Yet it makes perfect logical sense to me that transgirls would aim more for the feminine side of things. If someone identifies themselves as female strongly enough to do something about it, wouldn't they be more likely to be feminine?
Which is you defining us with the norms you are accustomed to. :\ I know you didn't mean it, but it's annoying.
Read up about the hoops we have to jump thru in the medical community to get HRT and stuff, and how ppl like Blanchard and others have defined us (and is still a definition ppl accept *sighs*) and you might understand why this view is unhelpful :)
You should also familiarize yourself with the radfem criticisms of transsexuality and stuff....
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I'm not mad. But since you want to learn, learn to check your cisprivilege too. :) That includes saying
Yet it makes perfect logical sense to me that transgirls would aim more for the feminine side of things. If someone identifies themselves as female strongly enough to do something about it, wouldn't they be more likely to be feminine?
Which is you defining us with the norms you are accustomed to. :\ I know you didn't mean it, but it's annoying.
Read up about the hoops we have to jump thru in the medical community to get HRT and stuff, and how ppl like Blanchard and others have defined us (and is still a definition ppl accept *sighs*) and you might understand why this view is unhelpful :)
You should also familiarize yourself with the radfem criticisms of transsexuality and stuff....
:)