[lbo-talk] Womyn's Fest tells transgender women to ban themselves

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Fri Aug 25 14:23:03 PDT 2006


At 05:07 PM 8/25/2006, Charles Brown wrote:


>^^^^
>CB: If I might play womyn's adovocate for a minute, aside from what is said
>on the website, I'm thinking they think about this something like this:
>
>All phenotypical males are socialized as men-gendered. Changing sex parts
>in adulthood does not change one's socialization as gendered male.
>Transsexualized doesn't mean transgenderized, exactly because gender is
>socially constructed and can't be surgically deconstructed. Therefore, the
>transsexualized-from-male-to-female will be bringing men-gendered baggage to
>the festival which is meant to be a place for womyn alone and apart from
>men.

What is men's baggage?

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