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はるる/Haley Halcyon/·𐑣𐑱𐑤𐑦 𐑣𐑨𐑤𐑕𐑾𐑯/jan Eli • Feed

From what I’ve heard on the Internet, and from what I’ve read from the Foreword and Chapter 1, _Whipping Girl_ is kind of like a bible for “transsexual, not just transgender” people.

aug 30, 2025, 5:36 am • 1 0

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That's really cool. I should see if its in the local library on on the app I use for audiobooks

aug 30, 2025, 5:39 am • 1 0 • view

I think it probably would. I at least know that _an_ audiobook version of the book exists I also accidentally found a scan on Archive.org lol archive.org/details/juli...

aug 30, 2025, 5:44 am • 1 0 • view

And here’s the part I highlighted in the book (second paragraph in the screenshot):

The far-reaching inclusiveness of the word “transgender” was purposely designed to accommodate the many gender and sexual minorities who were excluded from the previous feminist and gay rights movements. At the same time, its broadness can be highly problematic in that it often blurs or erases the distinctiveness of its constituents. For example. while male crossdressers and transsexual men are both male-identified transgender people, these groups face a very different set of issues with regards to managing their gender difference. Similarly, drag queens and transsexual women generally have very different experiences and perspectives regarding gender, despite the fact that they are often confused with one another by mainstream society. Thus, the best way to reconcile the nebulous nature of the word is to recognize that it is primarily a political term, one that brings together disparate classes of people to fight for the common goal of ending all discrimination based on sex/gender variance. While useful politically, _transgender_ is too vague of a word to imply much commonality between individual people's identines, life experiences, or understanding of gender.

aug 30, 2025, 5:48 am • 1 0 • view