Fugitivus Discussion Forum

There was this one time last year: http://www.womanist-musings.com/2009/08/conan-obrien-attacks-trans-women.html.
And I *think* there was another time too, but I can't remember what it was.
So... what did he do this time? >.<

I wasn't paying attention until I heard that word, but

Edited because this is visible to the general internets and, well, anyway, I need to be discreet right now due to legal proceedings. Keeping up the link to the book.

My Princess Boy

Sigh.

Oh lovely. That's very comforting (not), to know that he has those views in conjunction with his job. Argh. Why do people suck so much?

That book sounds adorable, and that guy sounds like an asswipe.

*sends waves of hate toward that man...*

So, I found this article about gender and sex by a biology / science blogger. I know she is trying to be an ally, so I don't want to totally trash it. But, on the other hand, I find many aspects of it troubling. Not being the most femme-y femme woman who has a job in science, while living, as far as I can tell, a very typical cis-woman life (mother, heterosexual marriage), is not the same thing as living your life as a transman. And, one doesn't have to have ovaries to be born woman.

*LINK FIXED*

The link I see there goes to an article that (a) isn't about gender, and (b) is on your blog. I think we have a mispaste.

Whoops! Link fixed!

So my university's Health and Behavior Center sent out a faculty survey on attitudes and awareness about mental health services on campus for students today (TW: ). Anyhow, at the end of the survey, there was a demographic information section, including gender. Gender had three options: Male, Female, and Transgender. Argh. On the plus side, when I called the number at the end of the survey to let them know that it was problematic and made people who were both trans* and binary-gendered have to choose between their identities* (as well as excluding non-binary-gendered people) the woman who answered sounded apologetic and as though she was hastily scribbling things down as I stammered, so I think they might change that in future surveys. I suggested maybe "male, female, and non-binary" might be good categories instead.

*I'm pretty sure it was someone here on Fugitvus who pointed that out to me rather than on one of the other sites I read, and thank you so much for giving me the language to explain it to the people who make the standardized forms in at least one department on campus. I am really anxious about talking to people on the phone, and I don't think I could have clearly articulated the issue (even if I recognized it in the first place through all my cis privliege) to her without that. I tried searching for the post so I could credit the person here, but I wasn't able to find it, possibly due to misremembering the key search terms.