Transgenders Writing

5 creative works found

• The Uninvited Guest
  by HandofTamm

  Davinia was Chelsea’s father and wouldn’t want to deny it ever but the title was something she preferred kept in her former life as much …

  W A R N I N G / Contains a light sprinkling of salty language and mature themes. / One reader said this story puts the transgendered back thirty years, which is neither my intention nor my opinion.

• Gay Rights
  by d-faith-k

  We say “separation of church and state” but we mean domination from church to state.

  I had a very taxing day. My feelings about this topic have been building up and I just needed to get them out. It started when I was gathering information for a project I’m doing on gay marriage. Then in my Psychology class we spent the whole time talking about sexual orientation and my head was swimming with all these ideas and feelings. Then after class I spoke with a friend about what happened in class, and our shared beliefs and I just needed to take the time to write down my feelings. So at work I spent all my time writing this instead of actually working. But I’m so glad I got it all out. Remember this is my opinion, if you have anything to say about it I would be happy to debate you, but respect my beliefs.

• Question Your Gender Assumptions
  by OneMultipleCode

  Identity: I do not personally consider identity to be a product of biology.

  This is a monologue. It is framed by the theme of contextual personhood. I understand the potential that some people might feel greatly offended after reading this monologue. However, this piece itself is not offensive, rather, offense may come from the stark contract between cultural perspectives. Also, this piece calls into questions many political slogans that have been used in social change movements for gay rights and trans rights. Justice is about equality, not pathology (Judith Butler). We need new political organizing strategies anyway, ones that do not exclude so many people…I have worked for gay rights, bisexual rights, trans rights, immigrant rights, the rights of people of color, the rights of women, the rights of children, the rights of men, the rights of monogomous gay couples to marry… always on the terms of a binary body/gender/sexuality culture. I am still waiting for these people to work for my rights…

• Body Language
  by OneMultipleCode

  Hands speak / with fingers / palms / wrists / elbows / and shoulders….

  I do not have any question in my mind of the motive behind why some boys, genderqueers, other gender-variant, and non-gender identified folks want to cut off their breasts… I hardly put it on the individual, who has learned the language of the body, of the identities society has crafted. If ears and/or mouths do not speak in ways we need them to speak, for support, for safety, for basic necessity… insurance (for the fortunate who have it) will pay for sign language. If bodies do not speak in ways we need them to speak, for support, for safety, for basic necessity… society demands the privilege of calling us disordered, shielding itself from implication, we must grovel and think ourselves as somehow faulty, rather than just very engaged, critical learners of soceity’s own language. / 7 genders for a brand of Judaism / 3 genders for Thailand / 3 genders for India / 4 genders for Navajo / 3 genders for Albania / 300+ genders for genderqueers Language, expression, students of conformity. We are being gendered and gendering ourselves. We are not mental cases. We are not flawed. We are injured by limited communication imposed upon us. Imposed. Of course insurance should cover what collective social discourse has created.

• Toxic Shock Syndrome (for Cameron McWilliams)
  by Raz Solo

  ...little girl / dressed in boyskin…

  Originally written 10/06/08. I wrote this after reading about a little boy named Cameron McWilliams who killed himself because he identified as female, and was persecuted for it by his peers. So sad.. :(