Things that piss me off, part 2039384.

[shawnaree]

So I'm reading up on LGBT experiences in public secondary schools right now, and I found this article about Trans teachers, which I thought would be very interesting, but so far it's not really been all that interesting

Comments

[david_feuer]

I must be missing something, but I don't see what's so wrong about that statement.

[raventhistle]

*shuffles over to david* I don't get it either. I think it's got something to do with the context. To me, it makes sense that some ftms would identify as lesbians for a time because "lesbian" is something that isn't uncommon. Transgender is coming out of it's own closet, but I don't think it's as out there as it should be. So people try to find something that makes sense, and use lesbianism, until they find something that makes more sense for them.

the writer said
"sexual orientation identities are more 'available'"

I don't think they meant that they're the reason, just that they're a convenient explanation for something that's confusing and very, very personal to the person going through it.

*ducks back down behind her rock*
just my humble opinion

[shawnaree]

<3 you, Charley!

[david_feuer]

Even some of those have identified as lesbian, simply because that was the only category of gender variance they were familiar with.

[shawnaree]

Identifying as a lesbian was not a part of my identity development, at all, and I find that statement to be extremely invalidating to my lived experience.