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Jul. 5th, 2009 03:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
adrienmundiI'm cranky and irritable, again, about the failure of the LGBT umbrella to offer me any cover at all. This time it's LOGO's Gender Rebel, in which "Three individuals shatter the confines of traditional gender identities." So, silly me, I decided to check it out.
The problem? All three are "biological females", a point made very clearly and very early in the intro. To me, this seems to be of a part in which gender variance/fluidity/-queer is visible and at least partially accepted, so long as it's a vagina bearer. This isn't the fault of the three people on the show; they're telling their stories, and that's a good thing. But, there is a paucity of voices, or even the opportunity to be heard, for penis bearing gender variant/fluid/-queer people. It's not unproblematic, the conditional acceptance of ft* people in the lesbian/queer woman community, but from where I stand, it kinda beats the perpetual cold shoulder.
I'm not sure why this is. I can see all sorts of intellectually sensible and defensible reasons this might be so, but none of them feel sufficiently right, and I'm reluctant to hitch my wagon to something I can force to make a kind of sense; I've done a bit too much of that to want to blindly do it again. I'm intellectually interested in the larger social currents in play that lead to this, sure, but honestly what I'm after is more on the ground information, things I can use in my life, not argue convincingly.
The problem? All three are "biological females", a point made very clearly and very early in the intro. To me, this seems to be of a part in which gender variance/fluidity/-queer is visible and at least partially accepted, so long as it's a vagina bearer. This isn't the fault of the three people on the show; they're telling their stories, and that's a good thing. But, there is a paucity of voices, or even the opportunity to be heard, for penis bearing gender variant/fluid/-queer people. It's not unproblematic, the conditional acceptance of ft* people in the lesbian/queer woman community, but from where I stand, it kinda beats the perpetual cold shoulder.
I'm not sure why this is. I can see all sorts of intellectually sensible and defensible reasons this might be so, but none of them feel sufficiently right, and I'm reluctant to hitch my wagon to something I can force to make a kind of sense; I've done a bit too much of that to want to blindly do it again. I'm intellectually interested in the larger social currents in play that lead to this, sure, but honestly what I'm after is more on the ground information, things I can use in my life, not argue convincingly.
