There was kerfluffle at PantheaCon about trans inclusion.  One response can be found at:
http://fruitofpain.wordpress.com/2011/02/27/in-response-to-the-lilith-rite-at-pantheacon/

I'm not focusing on the blog post but on two of the comments to the post.

Z. Budapest wrote:This struggle has been going since the Women’s Mysteries first appeared. ( Read more... )

I'm in yet another good discussion of how I approach third-gender in Wicca.  And yet again, the discussion has been stimulated by the rantings of the same ijit.  At least sie's good for something.
http://community.livejournal.com/wiccan/1481574.html
Since it's a locked entry, I'm copying my comments below.

I've also started a separate post for this ( Read more... )

The standard model of cross-gender initiation assumes that people come in two genders.  However--as I prove by existing--that doesn't completely cover it.  The following is my current thinking on cross-gender initiation when third-gendered individuals are involved ( Read more... )

• Written in response to a post titled " heteronormativity and gender polarity in the craft" in wiccan, which is a community for discussing British Traditional Wicca!

I think my comments are remarkably restrained, considering that the person I was responding to did such things as telling one of the regulars in the community to "grow a clit".

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I commented in both of these threads on being third-gender in trad Wicca.

http://community.livejournal.com/glbt_pagan/487129.html
As an androgyne (aka intergender transperson) myself, I've been looking into this for several years. Personally, I've been working with the Orphic deity Phanes, who is "golden-winged and double sexed". Sie was born from ( Read more... )