"Kate Bornstein argues transpeople are not men or women" Kate Bornstein, do you think you could kindly not do that??
What I've read by and heard from Kate Bornstein (amittedly a long time ago - I saw her do a reading from "my gender workbook" when it was new) was that _Kate_Bornstein_ is not a man or a woman. Which is an entirely fair statement for Kate to make about herself. But of course this gets back to things you were saying in previous posts - people tend to generalize a lot from their own experience. I certainly found it wonderful to hear Kate say that as it validated my own experience. The idea that it is possible to be neither a man nor a woman is still radical (ridiculously so in my opinion). And at the time when I heard Kate talking about this I DID think it was true for everyone (I even wrote something about this once (http://plymouth.livejournal.com/798931.html)). But I'm pretty sure this was my immature distortion, not her saying it. Maybe her more recent work is more problematic?
And that comment by Kate? That seems to be very much Kate talking about Kate, which is what Kate does best. And is, I think, the most legitimate thing for Kate to talk about.
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Date: 2010-09-07 03:02 am (UTC)What I've read by and heard from Kate Bornstein (amittedly a long time ago - I saw her do a reading from "my gender workbook" when it was new) was that _Kate_Bornstein_ is not a man or a woman. Which is an entirely fair statement for Kate to make about herself. But of course this gets back to things you were saying in previous posts - people tend to generalize a lot from their own experience. I certainly found it wonderful to hear Kate say that as it validated my own experience. The idea that it is possible to be neither a man nor a woman is still radical (ridiculously so in my opinion). And at the time when I heard Kate talking about this I DID think it was true for everyone (I even wrote something about this once (http://plymouth.livejournal.com/798931.html)). But I'm pretty sure this was my immature distortion, not her saying it. Maybe her more recent work is more problematic?
And that comment by Kate? That seems to be very much Kate talking about Kate, which is what Kate does best. And is, I think, the most legitimate thing for Kate to talk about.