I am mixed on calling it transweek because women’s week the week before transweek… all the nightclubs have shows with lesbian comedians, have free events all around town and that the goes for all the other “weeks” in town. After us is a Bear weekend! Then the last weekend of Transweek is Roundup and in November there is a Leather weekend. But Transweek is just the conference.
So today I only went to the Keynote talk, which was on trans healthcare.
For lunch I went to the Post Office… no not that post office but rather a cabaret, the food was very good. I had a western omelet with home fries.
Walking down the street, overheard conversation of a couple walking out of a store. The husband was talking to his wife about trans people walking in the street.
Husband to wife, “...They’re disgusting! How can they let people out in public like that!”
Wife to husband, “they should have warned us when we made the reservations!…”
My thought was why? Are they harming anyone? And what did you expect when you took a trip to the “Gay Inc.”?
So today I only went to the Keynote talk, which was on trans healthcare.
Return to the Gender-Fluid RapidsI first met Sirena back many moons ago, maybe ten years ago? She gave a good talk today about the Binary but for me that was old hat, for the new people I think that they learned a lot.
Sirena Rivera, MD
Being transgender means something different to different people, but where in our community do you fit in? Being a dual-gender person can make it tough to find your place in our community. Some find comfort in being both male and female, and changing external presentation when or if possible. Others view themselves beyond gender labels and see themselves as gender-fluid and/or non-binary. Some who live dual-gender lives can’t or choose to not transition, so what options exist out there? If you have a spouse or intimate partner, what are their feelings about all this and trying their best to love and support you? Let’s discuss what it can mean to live in a body that doesn’t make room for more than one gender.
For lunch I went to the Post Office… no not that post office but rather a cabaret, the food was very good. I had a western omelet with home fries.
Walking down the street, overheard conversation of a couple walking out of a store. The husband was talking to his wife about trans people walking in the street.
Husband to wife, “...They’re disgusting! How can they let people out in public like that!”
Wife to husband, “they should have warned us when we made the reservations!…”
My thought was why? Are they harming anyone? And what did you expect when you took a trip to the “Gay Inc.”?
How dare those trans people hurt the feelings of hetero normative cisgender people! Yeah, right!
ReplyDeleteLike many Gay enclaves such as Fire Island, The Castro, Greenwich Village, etc., Provincetown during the week after Columbus Day is a Trans Enclave for a week. These snowflakes don't believe in "live and let live." Instead, they believe that they have a right not to be offended by any non-traditional behavior or presentation wherever they go.
It's hard enough for us to be out and about in a hetero normative society. Provincetown is OUR town for the week. The locals are OK with it, else we'd be gathering elsewhere. We bring money and an extra week's employment for many in that town. So why should we be the targets for snowflake hatred?
Given that I am a baby boomer, my imprinting of what is visually normal is that one would define as normal in the 1950's. This doesn't mean that I believe that this imprint is correct - I feel that Gay Liberation has made this country a better place to live in, and I am glad that a marriage can be between any 2 adults without regard to gender. Hopefully, in my lifetime, or that of the next generation, we will see the something similar happen for trans people. Ideally, we would be able to diagnose a person as trans (no false positives or negatives) in childhood, so that we can provide the trans child with the correct puberty for their needs and an adulthood in the correct body (one that looks like the person inside the "meat suit" was identified at birth as belonging to that gender.)
One can dream, can't she?