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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ต.ค. 2017
- There are heaps of ways to be an ally. No one has to do everything, but everyone can do something. Find out how.
www.trans101.org.au
Minus18 is Australia's largest youth-led organisation for same-sex attracted and gender diverse young people. This is where we belong.
Thank you for the awesome video. Also, those amethyst earrings! I want!
I am loving this series so far! But I don't see episode 2. Where oh where is episode 2?
Second one is friends and family 101
0:35 I have, actually. Well, kind of. I remember someone saying allowing trans woman to compete in sports is cheating then I asked about people like me completing in swimming when you've got webbed toes, he said that's cheating too.
Learned new ideas at the end, thanks
I label myself only as human. That being said, my best guess is that I'm an ally, one who makes mistakes at times, wrong pronouns, names, etc. A good friend is FTM, much younger than myself, yet forgiving, as I have known him as presenting as one gender and transitioned after a same-gender marriage. I apologize in advance for making faux paus; I don't do it on purpose and try to conform to my ideal of how I want to be. I'm presently involved with FreedomNewHampshire, a group trying to get an amendment to the human rights bill in NH. To anyone who reades this, .....namaste......
I am an ally as well. I met a Trans woman online and she was very nice, yet despite me not being trans. I found out we have a lot in common. We're both autistic. Our symptoms are similar. I feel bad for all the hate she gets because she seems pretty nice overall.
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You're right, but listen again. You are missing the point.
I'm a Gay man in my 50s have known many Drag Queens' during that time also some who have had the chop, I don't treat them any different to the way I treat anyone else, BUT with the raise of Trans youth as we are seeing today I have to say I'm a little confused okay a lot confused with these young people when they say their Trans, are they Gay, Lesbian, A sexual or just haven't made up their mind yet, because in my youth when I met some who had the chop they where gay before and after that's how they saw themselves, how do this new generation identify that's what is confusing do those who started there journey as female or male through their transitioning identify as then Gay or Lesbian, or do the words that identify ones sexual identity no longer apply ?
As a younger Bi and gender queer person in a very gender diverse community, I can try to answer this for you. Just my thoughts. I think these categories have become a lot less fixed and especially a lot less related to one's genitalia format as gender itself becomes more fluid. As more of the spectrum of gender is explored and expressed, so too is the spectrum of sexuality. As this happens, the meaning we attach to labels shifts, some stay the same, and more get added. So at least in my community, whether someone identifies as gay or lesbian or bi or pan or poly, or etc... has much more to do with whether that is the label they identify themself with to others, than how others perceive them or what set of genitals they have.
For example: A person who was assigned to the male gender at birth, might very well identify as lesbian after transitioning, whether or not they had any particular type of Gender affirmative surgery, because transitioning doesn't necessarily involve surgery. But another AMAB person might feel differently and identify as Gay. This might be linked to their gender identity post-transition, which isn't necessairily jumping across or even staying on the binary, And it also might not be.
It's possible that given the level of oppression the folks you know were facing to be themselves at that time, they didn't have the same freedoms we do now to explore all of the variety of these distinctions. Or maybe now some of us are super obsessed with specific categorization, because that's part of how we find our communities.
If you're really curious for a great answer, I'd recommend chapter 3 of 'Gender your guide' By Lee Airton PHD, or the whole book, but I'm reading chapter three for a gender studies class and it's really good, well researched, and pertains to your question.
@@katreeweick5493 Thank you for your response, I was there when we where hit with HIV I watched so many people die, even though in 1982 I was 17 I was also told I was HIV positive. I understand why young people feel the need to label themselves I also have seen what damage labels can do.
As a community labelling our selves can only weaken the whole, I find the acronym which we are all under has gone to far, if they add any more letters they might as well just say everyone, which oddly enough in the 1970s and early 80s it was so fashionable to be Gay.
Katree I will say this be your self, own who you are, just don't fall into a click which will in the end silence your voice & please please don't label yourself, as if you do they will steal your identity & voice, never let anyone take from you what defines you.
Take care.
Tony.
@@katreeweick5493 what is wrong with being who you are, without the labels labels only restrict you from being the best you can be.
@@tonylucas6690 Thanks Tony, I can only imagine what it was like to go through that time, I wasn't even born yet, and all the activism that happened then in response to all the horrific treatment, set the stage for me to come into myself not fearing being gay/bi/open/different two to three decades later... It's intense to think about and I didn't even live it...
I had a Queer theory teacher who said something along the lines that within identity politics we find labels within identities of oppression, by doing so we give up our power and then ask for our rights back (from those in power/the het norm) I know what you mean, that there can be harm in labels and even more so in being labelled from outside, but I also notice that among these diverse communities where we respect everyone's own personal experiences and recognize our kinship within our diversity, there is a different kind of power. It's still community and collaboration, it's diversity, it's queerness, it is welcoming and embracing our differences it still feels like a community to me even if we all use different words to describe ourselves and our experiences.
Dat Korrasami tee tho
Some great allies are not cis.
Unintentional isn't transphobia.
Intentional is still not "transphobia".
im an ally of all people including trans. Not interested in stepping back for others voices, its all or nothing. everyone say what you want to say. What rights are affected exactly? tolerance and acceptance, but not obedience. I dont agree with everytning the trans community is saying, we cisgenders will have to agree to disagree on some things. Live and let live is my preference. Do as you wish, but dont expect everyone to go along with it cause you think its the right way.
I disagree with your philosophy and reject your claim of allyship. You become an ally through learning, listening, and action.
Tolerance is a very low bar. Acceptance isn't the same as being welcomed with and for our differences. By your logic, I should feel free to use whatever pronouns occur to me for you no matter what your cisgender presentation is. Which tends to be disrespectul in the cis community. If you call a man by she/her pronouns it is actually a put down. and if you refer to a cis-woman with masculine pronouns a lot of people would raise their eyebrows and be very confused. As cisgender, You exist within a code of gender rules, we ask you to learn to expand it so there is room for our diversity. If you're unwilling to learn about this, then you're not Allying with gender diverse peoples and you actually are contributing to systemic oppression by simply maintaining the status quo.
@@katreeweick5493 I am 2 years off turning 60 I have known people who have had the chop men becoming a woman who after a couple of years could not cope & in the end take their lives, along with ladies who went through the same type of surgery, I have known Carlota since I was 8 years old he / she in many ways saved my life.
I will finish with this, own yourself don't ever apologise for who you are, stay strong.
@@katreeweick5493 That is your right, that is what makes us all special, it is when we are silenced is when it wrong.
@@katreeweick5493 agree to disagree, I become an ally when I do as you think huh? Philosophy? what philosophy? you dont know shiola of what actions I have taken already. I am listening to many, but dont necessarily agree with everything said. And learning for me never stops. How did you determine tolorance is a low bar? Is obedience the bar now? You prefer welcomed over acceptance, fine I welcome anyone and accept anyone. Call me what you want, it doesnt mean i agree. Who made you the determiner of an ally? Are you oppressed, then rise above it like everyone else. dont get twisted when someone says something you dont like.
0:20 Damn he's beautiful! Or Ze? And I'm a heterosexual man!
They is good when you don't know someone's pronouns :)
Ewww. U can call em by shim,shims, shimzes or she-man, manchick or she-dude or just that thing. Lol.
You gay now nigga!
Let's support all trans persons, especially transracial and trans-species persons!
No.
ALL TRANS ARE VALID
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