Word: genderism
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...She’s an expert on classic films who calls Monroe “an inspiration.” In fact, Campbell says, the first time she ever cross-dressed was at the Brattle’s “Transgender Tuesday” event in 1997, where gender-bending was rewarded with a half-price ticket...
...their lives to hate violence. The day exhorts us to “remember our dead”—to engage in rites of public mourning for those whose deaths would otherwise go unmarked. It is difficult to communicate the degree of danger to which trans and gender-variant people are subject every day. The average person stands a one in 18,000 chance of being murdered; for trans people, the likelihood...
...begin to confront the virulent transphobia that keeps trans people from finding jobs, housing, or health care that makes them so vulnerable to violence in the first place? Though gay and lesbian activists have made significant social and legislative inroads in the last two decades, progress for gender-variant people has been glacial by comparison. Only four states—California, New Mexico, Minnesota, and Rhode Island—explicitly prohibit discrimination on the basis of gender identity...
...everywhere, and the relevance of trans concerns to other movements is under constant attack. The inclusion of trans concerns in extant movements—in a manner neither fetishistic nor tokenizing—is necessary if such movements are to avoid a self-negating hypocrisy. Transsexuality, transgender, and gender variance—though each denotes a distinct and specific identity—are often regarded as willful choices that could or ought be abandoned, or diagnosed as dangerous mental ailments to be treated with drugs or psychotherapy. Gender Identity Disorder—the diagnosis with which transsexual and transgendered children...
...Women’s studies is a neutral name, it could be from any point of view,” he continued. “But when you say gender and sexuality, you get a lot more of a feminist tinge...