Last week, I got to connect with Jennifer Lahl, the brilliant filmmaker behind Detransition Diaries, Eggsploitation, #BigFertility, and more. We talk about gender, surrogacy, prostitution, and the whole global empire built on disembodiment. Sorry for sitting the dark like a weirdo! I always sit by the window. It was a rainy day. Didn’t notice or think about how dark my image would appear :-/
Great discussion. I'm always glad for connections being made between different issues that affect women. Since one of the main projects of patriarchy is to disconnect women from ourselves and each other so we're more easily exploited, some of the most powerful things we can do are connect with each other, connect the dots, and connect to ourselves.
Although I was a little surprised when she said she was going to 'let you go' after only 40 minutes or so, especially as she said 'we could talk all day' !
Just a thought about some text in the description of the documentary, "The Detransition Diaries: Saving Our Sisters", from Jennifer Lahl:
"The Detransition Diaries is a documentary film that recounts the stories of three young women, who felt that their trauma and dysphoria would be fixed by trying to medically transition from female to male."
Maybe that "transition from female to male" was just carelessness or an ill-considered euphemism, but I find such phrases -- which are far too common in various ostensibly credible newspapers -- to be part and parcel of one of the most egregious "Big Lies" to have come down the pike in a very long time: NO human will EVER transition from one sex to another. It is physically and medically impossible.
By the standard biological definitions -- endorsed by such reputable biological journals as Theoretical Biology, and Molecular Human Reproduction, as well by Oxford Dictionaries -- to have a sex is to have functional gonads of either of two types, those with neither are, ipso facto, sexless:
"Female: Biologically, the female sex is defined as the adult phenotype that produces the larger gametes in anisogamous systems.
Male: Biologically, the male sex is defined as the adult phenotype that produces the smaller gametes in anisogamous systems."
For those poor unfortunate and criminally defrauded dysphoric young women to actually change their sex, they would have to replace their ovaries with testicles -- not to mention everything else that goes along with those two types of gonads. "Medical impossibility" is an understatement.
But giving any sort of credence to that "possibility" by using such careless language is to be a party to an odious medical scandal and the crime of the century.
Great discussion. I'm always glad for connections being made between different issues that affect women. Since one of the main projects of patriarchy is to disconnect women from ourselves and each other so we're more easily exploited, some of the most powerful things we can do are connect with each other, connect the dots, and connect to ourselves.
This was lovely. It should absolutely be ok that a certain way of being is objectively better than the other: transing is a negative outcome.
I really enjoyed this discussion.
Although I was a little surprised when she said she was going to 'let you go' after only 40 minutes or so, especially as she said 'we could talk all day' !
We had talked some before and after!
Just a thought about some text in the description of the documentary, "The Detransition Diaries: Saving Our Sisters", from Jennifer Lahl:
"The Detransition Diaries is a documentary film that recounts the stories of three young women, who felt that their trauma and dysphoria would be fixed by trying to medically transition from female to male."
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/detransitiondiaries
Maybe that "transition from female to male" was just carelessness or an ill-considered euphemism, but I find such phrases -- which are far too common in various ostensibly credible newspapers -- to be part and parcel of one of the most egregious "Big Lies" to have come down the pike in a very long time: NO human will EVER transition from one sex to another. It is physically and medically impossible.
By the standard biological definitions -- endorsed by such reputable biological journals as Theoretical Biology, and Molecular Human Reproduction, as well by Oxford Dictionaries -- to have a sex is to have functional gonads of either of two types, those with neither are, ipso facto, sexless:
"Female: Biologically, the female sex is defined as the adult phenotype that produces the larger gametes in anisogamous systems.
Male: Biologically, the male sex is defined as the adult phenotype that produces the smaller gametes in anisogamous systems."
https://academic.oup.com/molehr/article/20/12/1161/1062990
https://web.archive.org/web/20181020204521/https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/female
https://web.archive.org/web/20190608135422/https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/male
For those poor unfortunate and criminally defrauded dysphoric young women to actually change their sex, they would have to replace their ovaries with testicles -- not to mention everything else that goes along with those two types of gonads. "Medical impossibility" is an understatement.
But giving any sort of credence to that "possibility" by using such careless language is to be a party to an odious medical scandal and the crime of the century.
Was the word you were looking for around the end "synergy"? That's what popped into my mind.
It was dovetail.