Nope, it’s not, which is what I meant – that is, when I said "if we're talking about a sex binary", the "we" was "mainstream culture" and the "ease" was in conceptualizing trans experience from a cis (gender and sex) perspective; I wasn’t sure if you were simplifying past intersexed individuals and non-Western views of gender, and was trying to get a feel for where you were taking issue with the transgender label. I think we might have been having two different conversations – yours about terminology, and mine about experience (and you are clearly not taking issue with experience, as seen re: dharma_slut).
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Date: 6 Mar 2010 06:01 am (UTC)Nope, it’s not, which is what I meant – that is, when I said "if we're talking about a sex binary", the "we" was "mainstream culture" and the "ease" was in conceptualizing trans experience from a cis (gender and sex) perspective; I wasn’t sure if you were simplifying past intersexed individuals and non-Western views of gender, and was trying to get a feel for where you were taking issue with the transgender label. I think we might have been having two different conversations – yours about terminology, and mine about experience (and you are clearly not taking issue with experience, as seen re: dharma_slut).