{"id":4536,"date":"2015-06-03T09:48:57","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T13:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=4536"},"modified":"2015-10-20T09:51:48","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T13:51:48","slug":"9-fascinating-facts-about-transitioning-from-male-to-female","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2015\/06\/03\/9-fascinating-facts-about-transitioning-from-male-to-female\/","title":{"rendered":"“9 Fascinating Facts About Transitioning From Male to Female”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Great! I’m fascinated already! Tell me more,<\/a> MSN.<\/p>\n

“Bruce Jenner introduced the world to Caitlyn, the Olympian’s female identity, on the new cover of Vanity Fair on Monday…”<\/p>\n

If I had one of those buzzers that I could hit whenever someone said something wrong, I’d be leaning on it right here. Let me fix that for you, MSN.<\/p>\n

“Caitlyn Jenner, Olympic decathlete, TV star, and person famous for being famous, appeared on the cover on Monday’s Vanity Fair.”<\/p>\n

The authors of this article apparently felt so curious about gender transitions that they [pick one]:<\/p>\n

a) talked to a variety of trans women who have considered and effected a variety of transitions, including social, occupational, legal, and medical<\/p>\n

or b) interviewed a straight, white, rich, cis male plastic surgeon about jaw reduction, tracheal shaves, lip injections, hairline repositioning, and other procedures often known collectively as “facial feminization surgery.”<\/p>\n

If you guessed b), you’re right! Yes! No trans persons were consulted in the creation of this article. Despite being nominally about trans people, this article is actually an entirely trans-free zone. This makes it easier, I guess, for clueless cis people to satisfy their prurient curiosity without having to do anything uncomfortable like hearing from trans women themselves.<\/p>\n

MSN’s complete inability to talk to some actual people actually involved in actual transitions leads to painfully clueless claims like the following:<\/p>\n

“Every transgender person’s journey is different. However, facial feminization surgery is typically one of the first considerations for someone looking to make a change.”<\/p>\n

Really? That’s news to me. Because I thought that your average trans person in the U.S., who, according to an overview report<\/a> by LGBT Movement Advancement Project, overwhelmingly experiences discrimination in public places, employment, housing, and education — and who’s also at disproportionate risk for poverty, homelessness, violence, suicide, and murder — is just trying to, you know,\u00a0get through the day in one piece.<\/em> But no — apparently your average U.S. trans person, once she decides to do some physical transitions, is saying to herself, “Okay, I’d better move $50K out of my rainy day fund to pay for a series of delicate and invasive operations from which it will require months of rest and recuperation. Let me check my calendar — okay, I’ve got the next year free — let’s do this!”<\/p>\n

Oh FFS, MSN! [And FFS does not = Facial Feminization Surgery. :p ]<\/p>\n

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Great! I’m fascinated already! Tell me more, MSN. “Bruce Jenner introduced the world to Caitlyn, the Olympian’s female identity, on the new cover of Vanity Fair on Monday…” If I had one of those buzzers that I could hit whenever someone said something wrong, I’d be leaning on it right here. Let me fix that… Continue reading “9 Fascinating Facts About Transitioning From Male to Female”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[679,677],"class_list":["post-4536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-stupid-cis-people","tag-transmisogyny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4536"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6522,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4536\/revisions\/6522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}