The Tranny Boom...dirtyemployeeOctober 2 2003, 11:13:46 UTC
Maybe we should call it the Genderfuck Boom. This movement is more then trans, it's about fucking with gender, refusing to fit into gender boxes. It's exciting but there will be repercussions like any other big movement.
I think in 10 years, a bunch of folks (mainly between the ages of 16-25) who had come out during this 'Boom' in safe places like college utopias will stop transitioning or have regrets.
I know what you mean about feeling reluctant about being associated with the larger label of 'trans'. I get sick of hearing about it every where I turn. A big chunk of my pals have started T, assumed the label genderqueer, disposed themselves of queer labels, and obsess about the ways in which their trans identities make them DIFFERENT.
I can just imagine the way teachers at Hampshire are bending over backwards for self-identified transfolk.
I mean, it's exciting. All these people are fucking with gender. It's a radical concept even if you aren't actively taking that political view. This stuff is a major mind-blower. People can't help but be fascinated, disgusted, intrigued, or have some kind of extreme reaction. It's extreme-the Boom, that is. People want to be a part of, want to know all about it, want to 'help out', want to make it visible to the world. And some people, like myself, just want to be an outsider. Being trans is too cool for school right now. It might not be later.
Re: The Tranny Boom...lukeboiOctober 2 2003, 13:36:17 UTC
I know some of your close buds have just started T. Its intense. Most of my closest queer friends from last year and the year before have all switched pronouns.
I feel guilty sort of, like, I know I am trans but can I hold out? Why am I so concerned if people think I am one of those trendy trannies? Because trans has those connotations for me now, I want to back out so bad..I want to distance myself from all of it and just be me...but I can't, its hard. I want to have a different name or pronouns or even change my body and not have to mean that that makes me trans when trans encompasses a lot of people and a lot of ways of going about it that aren't for me.
I really admire you for sticking to your guns. I think its rarer and rarer.
Re: The Tranny Boom...dirtyemployeeOctober 2 2003, 14:13:42 UTC
The toughest part about knowing so many trannies is when I'm hanging out with the uninformed, like skate guys, or whoever and I want to do my pals justice and refer to them by their pronoun of choice but I also sometimes feel ashamed of acting so nonchalant about it when the people I am talking to are looking at me like, "dude, why are you calling that girl, 'he'?"
I think in 10 years, a bunch of folks (mainly between the ages of 16-25) who had come out during this 'Boom' in safe places like college utopias will stop transitioning or have regrets.
I know what you mean about feeling reluctant about being associated with the larger label of 'trans'. I get sick of hearing about it every where I turn. A big chunk of my pals have started T, assumed the label genderqueer, disposed themselves of queer labels, and obsess about the ways in which their trans identities make them DIFFERENT.
I can just imagine the way teachers at Hampshire are bending over backwards for self-identified transfolk.
I mean, it's exciting. All these people are fucking with gender. It's a radical concept even if you aren't actively taking that political view. This stuff is a major mind-blower. People can't help but be fascinated, disgusted, intrigued, or have some kind of extreme reaction. It's extreme-the Boom, that is. People want to be a part of, want to know all about it, want to 'help out', want to make it visible to the world. And some people, like myself, just want to be an outsider. Being trans is too cool for school right now. It might not be later.
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I feel guilty sort of, like, I know I am trans but can I hold out? Why am I so concerned if people think I am one of those trendy trannies? Because trans has those connotations for me now, I want to back out so bad..I want to distance myself from all of it and just be me...but I can't, its hard. I want to have a different name or pronouns or even change my body and not have to mean that that makes me trans when trans encompasses a lot of people and a lot of ways of going about it that aren't for me.
I really admire you for sticking to your guns. I think its rarer and rarer.
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