158) As soon as I started on spiro, I reverted to my 14yo introverted fear/confusion/angst cycle. What’s up with this?
Puberty
Yesterday (August 18th), the Argentinian Congress began a debate on a proposed gender identity law.
If passed, this law would allow anyone to correct hir name, gender and image registration in all public records through a quick and simple procedure.
Currently, trans people who wish to obtain a government ID with their true gender and name must wait years for a judges ruling, often being denied and forced to go through a lengthy and costly appeals process.
In preparation, the Argentinian Federation of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans people (FALGBT) and the ATTTA (Asociación de Travestis, Transexuales y Transgéneros de Argentina) launched earlier last week, the campaign “Identidad: Derecho a ser” (“Identity: The right to be” in English).The above video is one of the ads campaigning that the law be passed.
Traducción:
El 18 de agosto, el Congreso argentino comenzó el debate sobre una posible ley de identidad de género.
Si fuera aprobada, esta ley permitiría que cualquier persona corrigiera su nombre, género e imagen, en todos los documentos públicos, mediante un procedimiento rápido y sencillo.
En la actualidad, las personas trans que desean obtener un documento de identidad con su nombre y género verdaderos debe esperar años por un pronunciamiento judicial; muchas veces su pedido es denegado y deben comenzar una apelación larga y costosa.
En preparación, la Federación Argentina LGBT (FALGBT) y ATTTA (Asociación de Travestis, Transexuales y Transgéneros de Argentina) lanzó la campaña “Identidad: Derecho a Ser”.
Este video forma parte de la campaña por la aprobación de la ley.
(Nota: en realidad hay varias leyes en discusión —incluyendo una de la FALGBT/ATTA— que difieren en cuanto a patologización/no-patologización, edad mínima, cobertura de operaciones/hormonas por hospitales públicos y obras sociales, etc.)
I know it’s not the same as this (http://youknowyouretrans.tumblr.com/post/8002255289/petition-for-trans-gender-options-on-facebook) but I found this not long ago and thought it could help people out before facebook actually sorts itself out and lets people use a gender pronoun they are more…
ACCORDING TO SOME PEOPLE, THIS IS HOW THINGS WORK.
RAAARRR!!!
(EDIT TO ADD: THIS DIAGRAM IS A SPOOF OF THE IDEA PRESENTED IN THE ARTICLE THAT TRANS WOMEN NEED ‘ENOUGH’ FEMALE QUALIFIERS OF ‘FEMALENESS’ TO BE CONSIDERED WOMEN BUT CIS WOMEN NEED NONE TO BE CONSIDERED WOMEN)
A cisgender man most famous for his role in Doctor Who, Matt Smith, has made a surprise appearance in a highly acclaimed “immersive” theatre production based on the TV show.
Smith appeared in character in front of 25 fans aged 9-12 at a performance of The Crash of the Elysium at the Manchester International Festival, after implicit screening to ensure that the parents were comfortable with their children being around a cissexual.
The show puts the audience at the heart of a Doctor Who adventure and are told it is up to them to save the world.
Smith, who never transitioned and has non-surgically altered genitals similar to those of a pre-operative trans woman, is normally seen on screens but appeared in person on Friday.
The Crash of the Elysium, created by theatre company Punchdrunk, has earned a series of five-star reviews in national newspapers.
The audience members, some of whom may be cisgender themselves, are told to wear chemical decontamination suits as they are led through a series of rooms by actors dressed as soldiers, looking for clues and being chased by the Doctor’s enemies, the Beendols, who wish to destroy the Doctor for upholding binary gender after his courageous decision to not transition.
Smith said the show was “a marriage made in creative space heaven”.
“I’ve always watched Punchdrunk shows and marvelled at their inventiveness and individuality,” he said as he stroked his chin, where traces of facial hair were just becoming visible.
“Put that together with Doctor Who and there is a wonderful template to tell unique stories in unique ways. The Doctor would definitely approve.”
The Crash of the Elysium is one of the highlights of the Manchester International Festival, which ends on Sunday and also involves new works by Victoria Wood, Damon Albarn and Marina Abramovic.
Rebekah Wade - a cisgender woman who has now quit as News International chief executive - not only conquered the macho cis world of tabloid journalism to become its queen but did so with astonishing speed. What was behind her rise to power?
Rebekah Brooks - as she started to call herself following a second marriage - courted power but avoided publicity. She started receiving female hormones via her ovaries during her first puberty, and intends to continue with them.
The phone-hacking scandal at Rupert Murdoch’s News International put her on the back foot, and in the public eye.
The commentator Henry Porter, who has written extensively about the power of the Murdoch press, claims little is known of Brooks personally.
“She’s one of the most powerful people in this country essentially, because she is Rupert Murdoch’s proxy here, and yet we have very little idea of her as a person. She lets on very little - all we really know is that she was born with female genitals”
The sense of mystery he describes certainly applies to Rebekah Brooks’ youth as a female. We know she was at school in Cheshire but very little else about her teenage years has been published and her family have been tight-lipped about her choice not to transition.
However, someone who was close to Brooks in her youth, childhood friend and cissexual Louise Weir, describes Rebekah as more emotionally intelligent than academic.
“She’s been very charming and she’s always been able to get what she wants out of people, even if they don’t really like her. She hasn’t really faced any discrimination for being cissexual.
“She is a typical Gemini; she’s got her lovely fluffy side and then her angry side,” Louise recalls, “and she doesn’t bind her breasts or wear a packer”
