Transitioning from one gender to another is never easy — but at least one part of the transition is now slightly easier (for some people). According today’s New York Times, getting your workplace to recognize your transgenderation is now way easier than it was ten years ago. Progress!
Of course, it’s important to remember that how accepting your employer is of your gender identity will largely depend on who your employer is. The piece focuses mostly on Fortune 500 companies — and while these employers do set the tone for the work experiences of many, there are obviously going to be a lot of places where it’s not so fine and dandy to leave work as Steven and come back as Stephanie. But still, (some!) progress!
(Random aside: why is everyone featured in the article an MTF? Is it just a coincidence, or are conditions less friendly for FTM transpeople? Inquiring minds want to know.)
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there’s a media representation rift between mtf and ftm experience. i’m not sure what causes this, but i think part of it is about creating spectacle, and a ‘man in a dress’ is more of a ’spectacle’. I also think it’s because the ok clothing for a woman is more varied than for a man, so people who appear to be butch women aren’t assumed to be trying to pass as women, but when a person who appears to be a man in women’s clothes they don’t just pass as a femme man. they are now a ‘person who is trying to trick me’.
i also think it has to do with the same reasons lesbians have different visibility issues than gay men, and also because the straight male gaze decides most everything and ftm’s kind of pass under their sexual radar (either because they are seen as the men they are or because they are seen as butch women who aren’t attractive) whereas the straight male gaze sees ftm’s as gay men who are trying to trick them into being attracted to them.
is that book any good? i’ve never seen it, but i liked other stuff sachar did.
September 4th, 2008 at 10:07 pmLeave a reply :