queer censorship strikes again, though it had a point

[kanzeon_2040]

My book won’t win a [Lambda Literary] prize because my friend Sandra Newman wrote a book. The premise of her book is “what if all the men disappeared.” When she announced the book on twitter, YA twitter saw it. This is the single most terrifying thing that can happen to a writer on twitter. YA twitter, presumably fans of young adult fiction, are

Comments

[legalmoose]

I think your description of the essay is a little harsh. The essayist goes on to lay out that the book in question does explicitly cover transgender individuals. And while they could've described the book's plot better than "what if all the men disappeared", the essayist was pretty clear that she and the book's author did not mean "to support a project that erases transgender women".

[kanzeon_2040]

I assure you I'm being less harsh than others were! I mean, I agree with you, but if you're going to wade into this kind of debate with transgender people on Twitter you'd better watch every word. I think it should be fine to write a novel about all the XY chromosome people disappearing, even if that includes transgender women. And I think it should be fine to defend such a novel, without losing your own award for your own book that is about something completely different. Why can't there be a novel about all the XY chromosome people disappearing? A novel about all the XX people disappearing could be interesting also. Let's disappear all the white people - the rest of the world might cheer LOL

Part I

[matrixmann]

I cannot but keep saying: If you're in a transsexual position and you still feel addressed when people say anything about your physical/chromosomal/birth sex, then something's going entirely wrong in your brain. Then you're truly just a clown, a "tranny", a transvestite, and not a transsexual. Because the essence of being so is being convinced "this here is wrong, this is not what I am - this like a big cancer growing on my back, actually it shouldn't exist" and what shouldn't exist, you actually refuse to even mind about, rather than identifying with it. (That's what these people do who complain in their oversensitivity - they still identify with body features they want to tell you they'd actually like to get them gone! Contradictionary behavior and mindset like that doesn't really make someone become convinced of their supposed "position"...)

Sigh... I think I'll take this on in a different way

Part II

[matrixmann]

Attaction to a paticular sex, as far as a I know, also has something to do with pheromones that a person emits. Those can't be noticed by conscious will, but they're still present.
If you react to one sex of pheromones more than the other, then obviously something inside of you must be coined to perceive these as "pleasant" and "attractive" or not.
And that says then... you're limited to particular groups of people in your preference.
Meaning, there is a preference of certain features that aren't equally present in both sexes.
And this in return means... Sex isn't fake.
If it was, then you could get attracted to both sexues in equal shares just from wanting that - but you obviously can't choose that