Monopolising struggle

[Happy Monkey]

Moore's statement uses transexuals as an example of a parody of women that it is offensive to expect real women to live up to.

Bindel seems to be accusing gender reassignment surgery - a core desire of many transexuals - of being a sexist plot to prevent woment from acting like men.

Burchill continues the subtext of transexuals being pretend women, by calling them a sort of female minstrel show.

[DanaC]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

Bindel seems to be accusing gender reassignment surgery - a core desire of many transexuals - of being a sexist plot to prevent woment from acting like men.

That's not how I understood her point. I thought she was saying that gender reassignment was being pushed for by male psychiatrists to ensure gender conformity of some sort. Male to female, and female to male. Basically, she was suggesting that the problem isn't so much that someone is born the 'wrong' gender, but that our concepts of gender are so fixed and polarised as to make those people feel like they're in the wrong body. That rather than surgically altering them to be more in line with the gender they feel, we should expand or dismiss the gender definitions in a way that includes difference.

I can see the argument. I am not sure I agree with it, but I can see the argument.