WRIT 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Gender Variance, Post-Structuralism

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: Writing
• Course: WRIT 100
• Professor: Henderson Lee

Document Summary

Transgender butch: butch/ftm border wars and the masculine continuum . It was a really big deal when transgender became the lumped term for transgender and transsexual. Many transsexuals didn"t want to be identified as transgender. Identity is discursively produced, socially produced (and legitimated), and we let people identify themselves. Stone typically means female masculinity in butch culture. Regarding ftm, lesbians would often say it is not authentic, dupes of binary sex (instead of moving around, lining up with the binary), just homosexual who wants to cure himself. That means that the difference between butch lesbians and. Ftm is that the lesbian is at home, in the right body. Prosser sees the butch as always woman-identified, female-identified, just playing with gender, scared shitless to actually make a physical change of the body. Note the stability of identification, the essentialism of it (the stable essence of lesbian), the value system inherent in any border war (lots of reverse discourse.