Comments | apel: PantheaCon Gender Conflict

apel

PantheaCon Gender Conflict

Feb 21, 2012 15:31

This is a response to Yeshe Rabbit's post about the conflict between trans gender and cis gender women at PantheaCon this year. This isn't the first time the issue has come up at PantheaCon. The Wild Hunt has more background.

Disclaimer: I'm cis-gendered and I wasn't at PantheaCon this year. Having said that, I'm afraid that this blog post sounds ( Read more... )

paganism, relationships, feminism, religion

Comments 7

hitchhiker February 22 2012, 00:37:39 UTC

check this out, if you haven't.

apel February 22 2012, 04:49:37 UTC

Looks like a very interesting book.

I really don't like purplevenus February 22 2012, 04:22:30 UTC

being called cis-gendered.

Re: I really don't like apel February 22 2012, 04:49:07 UTC

Why is that and what would you like to be called instead?

Re: I really don't like purplevenus February 22 2012, 16:47:53 UTC

Female, feminine, woman. I feel like the only reason I need to be described as "Cis" is because Trans people need a code word for me. What was I, and other women like me, all those many years that this term, which was coined, according to research, in the mid-90's? It feels unnecessary, and I certainly don't identify as "cis-gendered". Hell, I had to look it up, this year, as it was news to me. I'll even take girly.

I wasn't there either,and Rabbit was on the receiving end of it last year, when due to a mistake on her part or the con's part, the Lillith ritual wasn't printed up as women only. She received death threats, so grain of salt with her posts.

Also, I maintain that I will call any individual what they ask me to. I also maintain that there's a world of difference between a woman who's been raised and socialized as one, and one who hasn't.

Re: I really don't like apel February 24 2012, 02:45:59 UTC

The arguments pro and con got pretty well hashed out in a thread on lupabitch's LJ.

apel February 24 2012, 20:51:49 UTC

Yeshe Rabbit had technical problems commenting here, so she responded on Twitter.

Here are her tweets, starting at 9:35 AM - 24 Feb 2012"I wanted to comment, but I too had difficulty. In brief, here: Point 1) was mostly to establish the words cis- and trans- and ( ... )