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By Rebecca, June 13, 2009 5:48 pm

Anyone else recently upgrade to WordPress 2.8 and lose the ability to use visual text editing instead of HTML? As fun as manually doing paragraph and link tags is, I’d prefer to use my fancy GUI…

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By Rebecca, June 13, 2009 5:41 pm

This post from Questioning Transphobia came across my RSS reader today and I wanted to share it with you. From the post:

There’s no question that there’s very little empirical medical evidence available on the various specific health risks faced by trans women. And although these results are as depressing as they’re scary as they’re alarming – we’re at twice the risk of dying from heart disease or a stroke and eight times more likely to commit suicide – there’s no doubt in my mind that much, much more research in this area is needed urgently.

This makes me think about Cedar’s Cis Privilege Checklist

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I expect that medical therapies offered to me have been the subject of rigorous medical studies & approval processes.

I expect that medical studies are being done to improve & approve treatments available for people with my conditions.

Because, as this study shows, neither of those points are true for trans men and women. I don’t know what the long-term effects of estrogen or testosterone blockers will be on my body, and very few people are particularly interested in finding out.

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By Rebecca, June 13, 2009 12:19 am

A brief comment was posted for the final installment of On the Edge of Trolling. (At least until I get some more ‘lovely’ comments like these have been!). This one was from to The Great Trans Feminist Blogging Shakeup of 2009 and, of the series, comes the closet to simply being an outright troll:

sorry, but cis trumps. Born this way. You chose the new territory, so perhaps you’ll be able to be a feminist in time, but right away? No way

Once again, I think I’m just going to quote myself:

Neither Dictionary.com, nor Wikipedia, nor Stanford, nor any other resource I could find indicates feminism is a philosophy exclusive to women, or people raised as women. Feminism, at least the feminism I identify with, isn’t a womyn-born-womyn space, and doesn’t benefit only women. CrimethInc says it better than I could but, in short, for every girl who was told she couldn’t be a firefighter there is a boy who was told he couldn’t be a ballerina. Yes, women are ultimately the victims of sexism and the benefactors of feminism more often than men, but it’s naive to think sexism doesn’t cut both ways and its elimination wouldn’t benefit people other than those who have “been oppressed because of their genitalia or reproductive organs.” (Which, by the way, trans women have too.)

And that’s that.