Comments on: Reclaim the Night North

By: Sal

Sal — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:49:36 +0000

I’m sure some of these comments are a little tongue’n'cheek, but what annoys me is that when I first went to a Gender Identity Clinic (I hate what they’re called too), as a transsexual, they asked me when I was going transitioning and going full time as a female – I asked whether females aren’t allow to wear jeans, tops, hoodies and canvas trainers? Apparently not in the eyes of the mostly male psychiatrists – it seems that you have to become a Stepford Wife to tick their pen pushing!

So why are you here they asked? I’m transsexual I kept telling them… I don’t need my gender reassigning – its never changed, its my birth sex I cannot identify/reconcile with.

Sal

By: polly styrene

polly styrene — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:10:01 +0000

But yes I have decided I am trans too, because I am often mistaken for a teenage scally. Therefore in future I shall be going to all trans events/groups organised in the Greater Manchester area.

By: polly styrene

polly styrene — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:08:28 +0000

Ah yes stormy the gender binary, more of that anon, but just a taster for the moment to a certain person whose name begins with T.

Dear T – If you really think that wearing a dress and make up makes you a ‘woman’ do you think this tends to

a)eradicate gender stereotypes
b)reinforce gender stereotypes

Discuss…..

By: stormy

stormy — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:36:54 +0000

Charlie, you just erased the tosser as I hit ’submit’!

By: stormy

stormy — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:36:07 +0000

You’re a wanker Berkeley.

It’s teh Patriarchy and the Tranz movement that UPHOLD the gender binary; both dictate how females/males should stereotypically dress.

So it is me, one who is currently attired in a combo of unisex slippers, ‘female’ trousers, ‘male’ fleece (because it has nifty pockets and was dirt cheap), that is truly revolutionary and breaking the gender dichotomy crap.

You were only worth 50p as a bet:
Would a complete tosser comment on this thread? …

I won!

By: stormy

stormy — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:43:43 +0000

“Why were there men on the march..? Were they there to reclaim the night for us..? Can we not do anything now without men being present..?”

It’s a good way to obliterate Herstory. RTN was an important feminist milestone, rebellion for being told “stay off the streets laydees”.

Seeings all and sundry can (or want to) tag along, hardly makes the IMPORTANT statement about the violence that females face because they are female. It turns RTN into some non-descript tranz mardi-gras. It ain’t a party bois, it’s a POLITICAL statement. Get off your backsides and organise your own damn march. Or are males sooo damn lazy, even when they claim to be ‘women’ that they still expect females to do all the work for them?

You bois don’t know the first thing about what it is to be female. And it ain’t about slappin’ on some lippy and a pretty frock.

BTW, I have decided today I am going to call myself tranz because I often wear men’s clothing. Yup, I shall now dedicate myself to infiltrating tranz spaces and disrupting them. How does it feel to have the stiletto on the other foot?

By: Debs

Debs — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:56:53 +0000

“I know she’s a nice lass, but I cringed when she was on a rant about how student women are the best type of feminist activists because they are bright and ‘educated’.”

I wish you hadn’t told me that, I’m already having a bad enough day as it is! Bloody hell, she must have her head up her arse. And I’m very much looking forward to your post about the trans/queer thing. xx

By: Michelle

Michelle — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 09:26:29 +0000

I’m confused about the trans/queer protest, because the publicity material for this march seemed to make it clear that trans-people were welcome on the march, so what were they actually protesting?!

And I agree about the women’s officer’s comment, v. class-biased. Not to mention that student activism can be very insular and could do with a dose of the ‘real world’.