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The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela is available on DVD from E1 Entertainment for purchase or rent from the usual suspects. Also, I need to give a shout out to Gina over at Skip the Makeup, who pointed me at the movie in the first place.

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Don't you think trans people are constantly challenged already. Why do we need to be shocked out of a comfort zone that we largely do not have access to. [...] Would you honestly allow a post that called all LGB people deluded and unnatural, and said that same-sex attraction doesn't really exist. And when your commenters respond predictably (that is, with anger), would you deliver this same apology?

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As a companion to my BUY Clomid ONLINE NO PRESCRIPTION, new post on Below the Belt about use of the term "cis," I thought I'd amplify my issues with helen boyd's recent post on (en)Gender ("Jeez Louise this cisgendered nonsese": nothing dismissive there, nope!) about her objections to the term, as I found the post highly problematic for a number of reasons.

First, she claims that "cis" is unclear, because you can't tell if it means cisgendered or cissexual:

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I have a number of issues with this. For one thing, she does not make the same objection about "trans": that is, Clomid 500mg, when we use trans, there's no clear indication as to what kind of trans person you are talking about: crossdresser, drag queen (yes, some are trans), transsexual, comprar en línea Clomid, comprar Clomid baratos, etc. So it demands something more from the term cis than is demanded from trans, which in of itself is an act of privilege.

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The key point for me is that you have to be transgendered to be transsexual, BUY Clomid ONLINE NO PRESCRIPTION. That is, transsexuality is a phenomenon within the larger trans condition. Buy Clomid without a prescription, It is a variety of trans experience, not an essential axis of being. Therefore, I think it is safe to say that in the absence of other qualifiers, "cis" means cisgendered and "trans" means transgendered.

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Telling me, & other partners whose lives are profoundly impacted by the legal rights / cultural perceptions of trans people, that we are “not trans” implies that we are also not part of the trans community. I’ve been saying for years now that we are, buy Clomid from canada. When trans people are killed, harassed, not hired, Clomid 625mg,650mg, fired due to discrimination, denied health care, etc. etc. etc., their loved ones suffer along with them, BUY Clomid ONLINE NO PRESCRIPTION. Their families, Detroit, Michigan, San Jose, California, their lovers, their kids especially. We are not just “allies.” We are vested, El Paso, Texas. Washington, D.C. Seattle, Washington, dammit, & a part of the trans community, so when “cisgender” comes to mean, or is used to mean, “not part of the trans community, Clomid 50mg,” we are once again left out in the dark.

And...wow. This is an extraordinary statement and I am struggling to understand why it was said.

First, I'd have a lot easier time figuring it out had helen not ended her post with this:

I have lots of genders, Buy Clomid online no prescription, but I’m not trans.

So...this is only a problem if trans people say it?

Second, replace "trans" with "in a wheelchair" in that paragraph and you can see how this starts to get queasy for me.

What do we mean by "community". When we say "gay community" or "deaf community," do we mean allies and families of gay or deaf people, or only those who are gay or deaf, Clomid 5mg. BUY Clomid ONLINE NO PRESCRIPTION, I think the usage is often contextual, but most commonly we mean only those members who have the trait being discussed. And with good reason, because while an ally may simply stop being an ally--friendships can end, married people can be divorced, Rx free Clomid, a person's political alignment may change--for the person with the trait it is extraordinarily difficult, if not impossible, to remove that trait. I don't think it is uncalled for to make the primary meaning of community those people who have the greatest self-interest in it.

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Likewise, cisgender seems to get used a lot in place of “ignorant or unsympathetic to trans issues” which is also bullshit, order Clomid online overnight delivery no prescription. Being cisgender or experiencing cissexual privilege – say by having a doctor assume correctly that I have a uterus – is not the same thing as being ignorant or unsympathetic to trans issues.

The exclusion and silencing of allies is a problem for all progressive movements, not just trans movements: witness the problematic relationships between men and feminists, for example. Clomid 1000mg, 2000mg, Some people certainly make attempts to cold-shoulder cis people from trans discussions, and often this is hurtful and unnecessary. At the same time, however, we should recognize that a movement needs both safe spaces and leaders from within its primary constituency: I call this the "no male president of NOW" theory, BUY Clomid ONLINE NO PRESCRIPTION. And just as straight or white people can condescend, obstruct, or even derail gay or black rights movements, Clomid price, cis people can do the same in trans movements, and trans people are well within their rights to talk about it and safeguard the goals of their movements.

This doesn't mean, however, Clomid 150mg, that use of the term cis means open season on trashing allies. Trashing is a serious problem for any movement; bell hooks talks at length about this in Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center. Trans people have a responsibility to make sure that they use the term responsibly, and not just as a shorthand for "bigot." But cis people have a responsibility too--to listen to trans people, and not get so caught up on a point of terminology that they use silencing tactics wholesale to shut down discussion, where can i buy cheapest Clomid online. Men didn't like the term "male privilege" but feminists insisted on it because it was a valuable concept that made visible a previously invisible prejudice; and while sometimes people used it in an irresponsible or even hateful way, the term has entered our discourse and is an important part of everyday discussions about gender.

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This comment was addressed to me on the discussion boards at helen's site. BUY Clomid ONLINE NO PRESCRIPTION, But the thing is, and as I argued there, there really haven't been any good reasons to object: just people who feel that they're being called bigots, or saying that they don't identify as cis and thus the term shouldn't be used--on them, or really, on anyone.

But both arguments fail. First, it is not clear that every use of the term cis is conflated with "transphobic bigot"; plenty of feminist and progressive sites use the word every day in its primary meaning, "the opposite of trans." And yet I don't see posts by helen directed at Liss McEwan at Shakespeare's Sister, 0.4mg, 0.5mg, 1mg, 2.5mg, for example. It only seems to be problematic when trans people use the term. Now, Kjøpe Clomid online, bestill Clomid online, the argument can be made that trans people use it the most more often in a problematic way. And I'll agree, but always with the caveat that trans people are also going to be the ones with the greatest understanding of cis privilege, and will call people out on it more frequently than others will. After all, who uses male privilege more often, BUY Clomid ONLINE NO PRESCRIPTION. Feminists or non-feminist guys, Austin, Texas, Memphis, Tennessee. So yes, the most problematic uses of "male privilege" will be by feminists, but there will also be a much higher volume of overall use.

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The other argument is that cis is an identity. But it's not; as I said on Below the Belt, it's a descriptive term, like trans. BUY Clomid ONLINE NO PRESCRIPTION, That trans has more in common with an identity is purely a function of the oppression and disprivileging of trans people, just as it is with being black, or disabled. We use terms like "identify as trans" because there is a step you have to take, purchase Clomid online no prescription, an identification you have to make: you have to reject the dominant culture's discourse about who you are--perverted, subhuman, crippled, New York. Los Angeles, California, and instead find a positive strength in who you are. Trans isn't an identity: it is the act of being trans, of being unashamed for what you are, that is the act of identification.

I mean, we don't talk about whiteness or being able as identities: and neither is being cis.

So all we are left with, then, is a really elaborate tone argument. And a tone argument is never an acceptable objection--it's a silencing technique. (As is helen's idea that the word only be used in an "appropriate" context, like a classroom.) And make no mistake, that's what's happening here. By telling trans people that there can be no word for people who aren't trans, we are being told that we are so unique and so different that we are the pure exception of the human race; that every other oppressed group gets to have de-centering language (sighted, able, hearing, straight) but we don't, BUY Clomid ONLINE NO PRESCRIPTION. That it is impossible to talk about not being trans without mentioning being trans. (Quick: I can write an article about dating as a straight woman, put straight in the title or the first paragraph, and never mention lesbians anywhere; that is impossible to do with a term like "non-trans.") And what happens when there is no term for non-trans. Simple. All too often, when people are talking about being non-trans, they will simply not even mention it: they will remain comfortably normal.

I am neither alien nor monster. I am not permanently othered by the accident of being born. And I will not accept a permanent second-class existence in the world simply because a three-letter word pisses some people off.

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I bring this up because of the recent controversy surrounding a very short word: cis. This word has apparently caused the Internet to catch fire and burn down. Well, at least my part of the internet--sure, it may only be a studio apartment with a kitchenette, but when there's a fire it's still quite alarming.

It all started with this post on Pam's House Blend, and specifically this comment:

There has always been a certain amount of animosity between the L's the G's the B's and the T's, BUY Frumil ONLINE NO PRESCRIPTION. We all know this, Detroit, Michigan, San Jose, California. When I start to tune out of a debate is when someone describes a whole group of our community as "cisgendered, Online buying Frumil, transbigoted, privileged assholes". Cisgendered is not even a word that gay men identify with but one created by people to single them out in a way that I personally find offensive and derogatory especially when used in this context, order Frumil no prescription. Not all white gay men are privileged, Buy Frumil without a prescription, nor are they transphobic, lumping them in this category serves no purpose to a greater dialogue.

That's how it started, but it didn't end there, Frumil 1000mg, 2000mg. There was a huge pile-on in that thread about the use of cisgendered BUY Frumil ONLINE NO PRESCRIPTION, , followed by this thread at PHB (including this now-infamous comment) and then another follow-up at Questioning Transphobia and then the next thing you know cis isn't allowed to be spoken at PHB but then it is (along with a--sorry, Autumn--"we need to struggle against the real oppressors" derail.) But by then it was all over the internet and even our old friend Carolyn-Ann had to check in.

All over a rather obscure Latin prefix. Color me impressed, Fort Worth, Texas. Denver, Colorado, I guessed: I mean, even the real c-word has four letters.

By now perhaps you are shaking your head: most likely in confusion. What is this cis you might wonder, buy cheap Frumil no rx, and how may I get some. Frumil 250mg, Or, maybe I should get rid of it. What, Boston, Massachusetts. Charlotte, Carolina, C.L., Frumil price, is the dish with cis?

It's actually very simple. Cis- means not-trans.

That's it.

Would, of course, that it would be so simple.

It comes from Latin, likely via biochemistry, where cis- and trans- are used to distinguish isomers from each other based on where the molecular bonds fall: on the same side, then cis (meaning within or on the same side), on opposite sides then trans (meaning across or on the other side.) The term has been kicking around for about two decades, but gained prominence thanks to Julia Serrano's extensive use of cissexual in Whipping Girl, her groundbreaking work about transfeminism.

Julia does a much better job than me at talking about why cisgender/cissexual isn't a pejorative word, so I'll just quote her quoting Emi Koyama

I learned the words "cissexual," "cissexist," and "cisgender," from trans activists who wanted to turn the table and define the words that describe non-transsexuals and non-transgenders rather than always being defined and described by them, BUY Frumil ONLINE NO PRESCRIPTION. By using the term "cissexual" and "cisgender," they de-centralize the dominant group, Frumil 75mg, exposing it as merely one possible alternative rather than the "norm" against which trans people are defined. Purchase Frumil online, I don't expect the word to come into common usage anytime soon, but I felt it was an interesting concept - a feminist one, in fact - which is why I am using it, acheter en ligne Frumil, acheter Frumil bon marché.

Yet as the brouhaha above shows, Online buying Frumil, a lot of people--cis people, natch--seem to somehow feel that somehow it is pejorative. That somehow trans people are forcing an identity onto non-trans folk, Frumil for sale. BUY Frumil ONLINE NO PRESCRIPTION, That somehow it lumps them in with all the other bigots out there--racists, homophobes, chauvinists.

To which I say: you bet your ass it does. That's the point.

By which I mean not that all cis people are bigots, Where can i buy Frumil online, but rather that they belong to a bigoted power structure. So do I. So do we all--we are all caught in the trap of kyriarchy, El Paso, Texas. Washington, D.C. Seattle, Washington, and pretending not to see the chains that bind us doesn't make them not exist.

The thing is, 0.4mg, 0.5mg, 1mg, 2.5mg, there are privileges to being not trans--I doubt much that anyone is going to fight about that. I'm just going to refuse to agree that one of them is the right to be normal.

Because that's what it comes down to. I'd have no problem ditching the term cis in favor of another term for people who aren't trans; I'm just not going to concede that we don't need one, BUY Frumil ONLINE NO PRESCRIPTION. Because every time I write not-trans instead of cis, Frumil 800mg, 875mg, 900mg, I'm calling attention to myself; I'm pointing out that I'm the weird one, San Diego, California. Dallas, Texas. San Antonio, Texas, the one with a problem, the one that needs to be differentiated. And fuck it, australia, uk, us, usa, I'm just not going to put up with that forever.

It does not invalidate other axes of oppression to demonstrate that another one exists. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Las Vegas, Nevada, Kyriarchy is complicated; it is devilishly difficult to sort out. But that does not refute it's existence--quite the contrary.

Now, it may well be true that cis is a unique term in one respect: it is being used by a disprivileged minority as a term for a privileged majority--some would say, Chicago, Illinois. Houston, Texas, forced upon a majority. 400mg, 450mg, This seems pretty different from some of the other terms that have evolved out of usage, like homosexual or heterosexual--in both of those cases, they were conceived by the privileged majority as decentering terms, canada, mexico, india. But again, Austin, Texas, Memphis, Tennessee, I say: good. Because we should celebrate the fact that so many people of privilege (cissexist privilege, that is) are willing to decenter themselves based on the suggestion of a disprivileged group. That's not tyranny: it's progress.

Telling other people what normal should be is where the tyranny begins.