that ain't right

from this article:

The reaction to the fictional character captured the bitter tension that can exist over gender reassignment. Among lesbians — the group from which most transgendered men emerge — the increasing number of women who are choosing to pursue life as a man can provoke a deep resentment and almost existential anxiety, raising questions of gender loyalty and political identity, as well as debates about who is and who isn’t, and who never was, a real woman.

if SOMEONE ELSE decides to get gender reassignment surgery, and as a result, YOU suffer from existential anxiety, you have more problems than i can count.

The conflict has raged at some women’s colleges and has been explored in academic articles, in magazines for lesbians and in alternative publications, with some — oversimplifying the issue for effect — headlined with the question, “Is Lesbianism Dead?”

how did these women even get into college in the first place? isn't there an analogy section in the verbal portion of the SAT? i don't think these people did so well on it.

It has been a subtext of gay politics in San Francisco, the only city in the country that covers employees’ sex-change medical expenses. And it bubbles to the surface every summer at the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, a lesbian gathering to which only “women born as women and living as women” are invited — a ban on transgendered people of either sex.

sounds like a lovely festival with friendly people. i read on a site that the male children of mothers aren't even allowed to enter the gates. how charming.

Barbara Price, a former festival producer, said the uneasiness has been “a big topic among lesbians for quite some time.”

i am happy to report that my lesbian friends don't really give a damn one way or another. mind your own business, i say. if a woman wants to cut off her breasts and inject herself with hormones, it's really her personal decision, and no one else's. if your "community" become "uneasy" about your decision to express yourself in a manner that makes you feel more complete, then your "community" sucks. (which is why i believe that the "gay community" is pretty much a figment of our collective imagination.)

“There are many people who look at what these young women are doing, and say to themselves, ‘Hey, by turning yourselves into men, don’t you realize you’re going over to the other side?’ ” she said. “We thought we were all supposed to be in this together.”

in WHAT together? sorry, i didn't get the memo. and i'm not sure i want it.