YouTube hookup for the trans and the gay...but beware the biologizing
I just went to YouTube to see a video about transyouth put together by TransYouth Family Advocates. Not ideal to start crying in a workplace common area, but a very good video with pictures, text, and a soundtrack. I've met one of the mother/son advocates. TYFA's website is: www.imatyfa.org (but I needed the YouTube link to see the video in standard pictures rather than psychedelic).
Based on the keywords, the excellent trans Campari advertisement was there. And then Campari keywords led me to the Village People's videos for "Hot Phone Sex," "YMCA," and "In the Navy." Wow, I've gotten my quota of good things just by coming to the office on my day off to advise a student. YAY!
There was a trans video by a youth/young adult that had the "educational message" that nobody chooses to be trans, and it is a curse...and a blessing. Bah. Speak for yourself buddy. People are free to go all biology is destiny eugenics part two if that is the only way they can live with themsevles (and they conveniently forget that biological answers lead to calls for prenatal testing--i.e. the eugenics). But keep your faith system to yourself rather than promoting it as truth. It is hardly the case that we have scientific proof. We have a bunch of people trained in science who desparately need a biological answer because they are engaging in dialogue based in "whose fault is it" (remember Simon LeVay anyone?), a field that has overlooked similarities across gender in favor of solely funding studies on differences, and a construction of "knowledge" so screwed as to be virtually useless when dealing with gender and sexual orientation.
Nostalgia trip: Ah, anyone remember or know about the days when feminist lesbians decried marriage instead of seeking state sanction and asserted that they had chosen a superior sexual preference instead of being born with lesbian fingers? Yes, I know many of them also hated the trans, but there was something refreshing about saying no to the state and smacking sociobiology in the face.
Based on the keywords, the excellent trans Campari advertisement was there. And then Campari keywords led me to the Village People's videos for "Hot Phone Sex," "YMCA," and "In the Navy." Wow, I've gotten my quota of good things just by coming to the office on my day off to advise a student. YAY!
There was a trans video by a youth/young adult that had the "educational message" that nobody chooses to be trans, and it is a curse...and a blessing. Bah. Speak for yourself buddy. People are free to go all biology is destiny eugenics part two if that is the only way they can live with themsevles (and they conveniently forget that biological answers lead to calls for prenatal testing--i.e. the eugenics). But keep your faith system to yourself rather than promoting it as truth. It is hardly the case that we have scientific proof. We have a bunch of people trained in science who desparately need a biological answer because they are engaging in dialogue based in "whose fault is it" (remember Simon LeVay anyone?), a field that has overlooked similarities across gender in favor of solely funding studies on differences, and a construction of "knowledge" so screwed as to be virtually useless when dealing with gender and sexual orientation.
Nostalgia trip: Ah, anyone remember or know about the days when feminist lesbians decried marriage instead of seeking state sanction and asserted that they had chosen a superior sexual preference instead of being born with lesbian fingers? Yes, I know many of them also hated the trans, but there was something refreshing about saying no to the state and smacking sociobiology in the face.